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September 30, 2008
I was recently perusing a blog called "THE Facts on Print Yellow Pages" when I stumbled across a post about Minneapolis pizza. Being a Minneapolis blog writer, resident, and a big fan of Pizza, I checked out what this site...
July 22, 2008
Sometimes I come across blog comments that are just a bit too generic. They're complimentary, but don't mention anything specific to the topic of the post. When this happens, there is a good chance the comment is a piece of...
April 21, 2008
One problem I've been noticing more and more as of late is that certain archived posts on blogs tend to become magnets for comment spam. One way to deal with this is to automatically close comments on posts after a...
January 31, 2008
What should you do when someone: comments anonymously to your blog under a made up email address from a Kinko's store on a post that's more than a year old where they hypocritically decide to attack someone you happen...
January 25, 2008
Google finds itself in the middle of quite a few sketchy markets where they both profit from the existence of the markets, yet potentially could also benefit from destroying the markets. The current example is domain kiting where domain registrars...
October 23, 2007
Recently a couple of servers I know were blacklisted, one by AT&T and another by Securence's ShieldWall (these are two different servers in two different cases). In both cases these companies treated the legit mail server like a criminal without any way for...
August 22, 2007
A new type of comment spam popped up on Technology Evangelist today: scraping the post itself for comment content. The comment below showed up on this post. When I saw that comment in my comments feed, I thought, "That sounds...
January 22, 2007
Could you please stop spamming blogs? It's getting really annoying. In fact, I had a post ready to go talking about CellSwapper but have pulled the post because of the spam I've received from your company in the comments on...
December 24, 2006
When the vast majority of emails I receive from MySpace are spammy friend requests, I'm not happy. For example, here is a group I received this morning: At this point, I still see enough value in MySpace in the form...
December 18, 2006
A blog comments feed is a great way to allow your readers to keep up on the conversations taking place on your blog. Let's face it: the comments left by your visitors are often more insightful than the original post,...
December 15, 2006
Search Engine Optimization is a powerful online marketing strategy. Unfortunately, it's poorly understood, causing people to respond to SEO spam like this one I received today: Is your site at the top of the major search engines? If not -...
November 1, 2006
Top Blog Posts for October How Blogs Hurt Google News Google Rebrands Writely to Launch Docs & Spreadsheets How .Mac saved my computer Why Would WalMart Need a Fake Blog to Communicate with RV Travelers? A Few Perspectives on Internet...
October 4, 2006
Remember when things hit the fan at Enron and story after story came out about the retirement losses of the 21,000 employees who's 401k's largely disappeared? Here is one example (emphasis mine): "As Skilling did his macho-boy routine on guys-only...
October 2, 2006
I'm looking for a little help with this annoyance. One of the trickiest forms of comment spam to deal with as of late is what I refer to as "Tramadol Spam." This generally consists of message from an author such...
September 20, 2006
Back in March, I published a list of spam keywords we use to moderate or auto-junk comments on this blog. The list is designed to automatically trash comments using words that have nothing to do with the topic of this...
September 1, 2006
Jeneane Sessum offers a likely commonly shared perspective on the ethics of splogs:You don't have to be A list to be splogged. "I've said about other sites that incorporate my RSS feed, as long as they aren't making money off...
August 26, 2006
Ian Kallen has put together a great post offering an up to date look at the web spam ecosystem and the role Google plays and profits from this trash. The Google Web Spam Ecosystem - Ian Kallen's Weblog "Web spam...
August 14, 2006
I got duped by a comment spammer!
It's pretty easy to catch comment spam when it comes from someone names Tramadol or other popular pharmaceutical products, but check out this comment contributed to a blog post about iPods (link removed):
August 4, 2006
Ponder this for a second:
Local newspapers should stop ALL reporting for an entire week. Just run wire services for that week . . . and see if anyone notices.
May 22, 2006
We launched the Technology Evangelist blog six months ago this past Friday, and have learned a lot about blogging over the past 180+ days. Here are a ten things we learned and/or wish we knew before we started:
May 8, 2006
Steve Rubel posted earlier today about the
problem
with blog plagiarism and the role full-text RSS feeds can play in this
annoyance. Rubel posits that full-text feeds may eventually die off due to the
ease of republishing them to plagiarist's sites.
March 19, 2006
I mentioned in an earlier post on How to Combat Comment Spam that keyword filtering has been the most effective strategy for combating comment spam used on this blog so far. Since that post went live, the site has seen an uptick in search engine referrals from people looking for a good keyword list to use in their own blogs.
March 10, 2006
Why do people comment spam blogs? Primarily to generate links to sites they own in an effort to increase the site's search engine rankings. Unfortunately, this can be a blog management nightmare for bloggers, littering their great content with hundreds of irrelevant comments for the latest and greatest enhancement drugs, online casinos, and girls girls girls. So what's a blogger to do?
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