With ten years since the CANSPAM act, we need to reevalue what the word spam means and how it’s changed in the past decade.… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Spamming
One Year After Panda, Is Your Content Safer?
On February 24th, 2011, Google introduced it’s Panda update, supposedly a major blow against content farms and scrapers. How did it work out?… Continue Reading
FAQs: The Basics of RSS Scraping
RSS Scraping is a problem nearly every webmaster is going to have to face at some point, here’s the basics on what it is and what to do about it.… Continue Reading
WordPressDirect Addresses Spam Issue
WordPressDirect, a move that it hopes will placate the concerns many have expressed about the service, is removing auto-posting from free members. But is it enough to calm the angry mob?… Continue Reading
Attributor Analyzes TrueAudience
A recent study by content tracking service Attributor has found that, for many publishers, their audience off their site completely dwarfs the pageviews they can count.… Continue Reading
2008: Looking Ahead
Considering that my predictions for 2007 fell somewhere between “mixed” and “unmitigated disaster” I am almost loathe to try again. However, in the spirit of the season, I almost can not control myself. So, with that in mind, I’m taking a look at the year ahead with seven new predictions about what is in store… Continue Reading
Perhaps I Spoke Too Soon
In a pair of previous posts I lauded Google’s progress in the war on Spam on its Blogspot service. Though my intuition was confirmed, at least somewhat, by Google itself, it appears I might have spoken too soon. I recently ran across this link on the social news site Reddit. It is a submissions listing… Continue Reading
Using .htaccess to Stop Content Theft
Having control over your own server can be a very powerful thing. It enables you to control who can access your site, how they visit it and what they can see. Generally, however, that power is best left unused. For the most part, restricting people’s access to your site is a bad move. Though you… Continue Reading
Update: Google Responds Regarding Blogspot Spam
Yesterday I received an email from a representative at Google Blogspot. In my inquiry to him, I had asked whether or not Google was on a recent offensive against spam blogs, as I had speculated earlier this week. As with most replies from Google about such matters, it was very vague and short on details.… Continue Reading
302 Hijacking: An Old Danger Made New Again
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 called… Continue Reading