In an update to my previous article regarding 302 redirects as a method to spam search engines, I received a reply back from Stylefeeder. Though I am late getting this up due to future posting, I wanted to share what they had to say.
When asked why Stylefeeder uses 302 redirects instead of direct links, a [...]

Ralph Rocks is a fragrance by the Ralph Lauren company. Now Smell This is a popular blog about perfumes that wrote the top-ranked page for a search on the fragrance.
However, looking at the Google results, you’d never know that. The top search result belongs not to Now Smell This, but a fashion site [...]

In a move that is likely to be a blow for spammers and scrapers, Google recently started closing Adsense accounts for having an “unfit business model” and has sent letters to many high-value Adsense members, some earning $70,000 or more per month.
The initial discussion about the closings centered around the practice of Adsense Arbitrage, buying [...]

Rachel Radison is a New Orleans-based mortgage broker. After seeing the difficult home-buying climate in the city following Hurricane Katrina, she decided that she could help would-be buyers with her know how.
Radison, having heard about these new Web sites called “blogs” decided to create one herself and obtained a Wordpress.com account. However, her ignorance about [...]

SoloSEO, an SEO company from Utah, announced on their blog that they are starting a database of sites that plagiarize content and are asking other Webmasters to contribute to it.
The idea is that, in addition to shaming and drawing attention to sites that steal, the list can eventually be used, in conjunction with plugins, to [...]

To update yesterday’s post about Wordpress.com being relatively free of spam blogs, I was contacted by Anil Dash, a Vice President at Six Apart, about their LiveJournal service.
According to Dash, the LiveJournal service, though having a larger user base than Wordpress.com and being equally free to use, is also relatively free of spam blogs. He [...]

A recent study by WebmasterWorld found that an estimated 77% of all blogs on Google’s Blogspot service were spam. Similarly, AOL Hometown, had well over 80% of its results turn out to be spam. Even MSN Spaces, which as not mentioned in the report, is claimed to host an estimated ten percent of spammer Web [...]

To update my previous story on Six Apart. I received a call this afternoon from Jane Anderson of Six Apart. They are working on addressing the copyright issues and are discussing what action to take at this time. They’ve promised to be in touch with me over the coming days and weeks to keep me [...]