Archive for the 'Fighting Spam' Category

Google is Warning of “Sneaky JavaScript”

Saturday, August 20th, 2005

Great post by Matt Cutts of Google named SEO Mistakes: sneaky JavaScript warns SEO’s and webmasters in general of using javascript redirects in doorway / spam pages.
This time he gives a great example of a site which created dozens of auto generated content pages that not only make no sense, but even redirects to the […]

Blogger’s Response to Blog Spam

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

So, as soon as I got done reviewing the latest ideas to fight blog spam, I get this post in my reader titled Blogger takes the lazy option on spam blogs: new “flag” option.
Apparently, Blogger has added an option to “Flag Blogs as Objectionable“. That is,
The next time your reading a blogspot.com hosted […]

Like My Blog Tell Your Friends, Don’t Like it, Tell SplogReporter.com

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

A new idea to fight spam blogs is catching some momentum. It initially started by Mark Cuban and took a turn when SomewhatFrank decided to put together a site for people to report blog spam.
How much is this going to help? I don’t know. Consider the amount of spam blogs on the net, even […]