March 08, 2010
6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed
[Six Revisions] I know WP Spam free claims they never have false positives, but I get them on 3 of my favorite blogs when I try to comment. I have cookies enabled, including third party cookies, and have contacted the company to find out why I’m being blocked from commenting and how to fix it but they’ve never responded –
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Comment Spam - a Huge Problem for Word Press Blog Owners - BlogSouls
[BlogSouls] Google has taken the first step against comment spam by banning or penalizing both the websites and the host blog. Wordpress blogs are hardest hit because most webmasters do not install the module that prevents people from entering a link into the comment.
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Posted at 04:02 PM
March 05, 2010
Startup Helps MSM Sites Become Search Engine Spammers - Winds of ...
[Winds of Change.NET] The company is selling a service and technology to its MSM clients, who bear responsibility for its operation against content that they have bought or licensed.
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Posted at 04:34 PM
Six Types of Social Spammers | Search Engine Journal
[Search Engine Journal] Even after the encounter I still saw on several occasions spammers joining chat rooms or forums that had explicit warnings about spam getting removed as soon as a comment was posted. It’s because of this I call this type “Suicide Spammers”.
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Posted at 04:32 PM
March 01, 2010
Nofollow: Twitter Now Distrusts Everything You Say | SEOptimise
[SEOptimise » Blog] The USP is the delete button that we can hit if twitter start trying to sell our content back to us unless it benefits our clients which is what its all about, they can get the benefit of a listing other ways. That said, we suspect Twitter will be forced to go back to its old ways or atrophy and die with the likes of Google Buzz et al and the wedding of Microsoft and Yahoo, our view, don’t dismiss it out of hand, we’ve seen over the decade and more that many major events have a habit of going back on themselves.
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Posted at 04:06 PM
Online Marketing Blog » Blog Archive » Nofollow: Twitter Now ...
[Online Marketing Blog] Twitter and nofollow is the topic of this week’s Twitter column: While even Google who has introduced, along with other search engines, the nofollow attribute to combat spam a few years ago does not propagate the use of it anymore, Twitter went nofollow big time just recently. What does this mean?
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Posted at 04:03 PM
February 26, 2010
TMA Forums Giveaway: Win an iPod Touch + iTunes Gift Cards ...
[TouchMyApps] It is based on a “referral system”, one where 10 points will be awarded every time you (forum member) refer someone to register and join the TouchMyApps Forums. Important note: In order for your referral to count, he/she must have made a minimum of 1 post (non spam and relevant to topic/discussion) before the contest officially ends.
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Posted at 04:34 PM
Create A .htaccess File Without Referral Spam
[Business center] This nuisance is being referred to as comment, trackback and referrer spams. Various solutions have been proposed with some being applicable to even two of these forms of spam using a single solution. What is Referral Spam? ...
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Posted at 04:33 PM
February 22, 2010
Twitter Nofollow - My 7 Day Ultimatum
[Andy Beard - Niche Marketing] What Twitter are saying in this most recent change is that the people I associate with and have regular conversations with on Twitter are not to be trusted, and that all juice should go to their blogroll icons in the sidebar which are the people I most recently followed – really funny with accounts that autofollow people back is that most of the blogroll links on their accounts are to spammers.
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Posted at 04:03 PM
NOFOLLOW tags in blogs | Learning Blog
[Learning Blog] nofollow Tag The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel="nofollow" attribute .
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Posted at 04:02 PM
February 19, 2010
TOPSITES Referrer Spam getting up my nerves | Share Commons
[Webmasters] There may be many who already know what I’m talking about, but for those who are still in the blues, when I say referrer spam, it means that when I check my web traffic, I see the referring URL of the website from where a visitor landed on my site. Lately, I have noticed an increasing trend of referring URLs that have nothing to do with my website.
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Posted at 04:33 PM
Twittvertising.com » Create A .htaccess File Without Referral Spam
[Twittvertising.com] A coalition of blogging and search engine companies have joined along to support an HTML attribute designed primarily to combat comment spam but have high potentials similarly for effective use against referral spam. This attribute is referred to as the rel =”no follow” is being praised by several bloggers because the final answer for the prevailing problem.
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Posted at 04:32 PM
February 15, 2010
Defensio Sorts Blocked Comments by "Spaminess"
[TechCrunch] Akismet has well over a million nodes processing more than 400 million checks a month, and our stats indicate more than 20% of that is non-blog content. Usage includes dating sites, the New York Times, News.com, wikis, splog checking, contact forms, bug trackers, and social networking sites.
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Posted at 04:03 PM
TechCrunch has 15000 Spam Comments Per Day
[TechCrunch] Interesting to see, that numbers make my 20+ daily spamcomments vanish. I wonder if TechCrunch is also using some sort of plugin such as Bad Behavior that will actually disallow malicious visitors (or actually robots) from even loading the pages of your website.
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Posted at 04:02 PM
February 12, 2010
How To Spam Proof Your WordPress Blog
[Internet Marketing Strategies] I would like to introduce you to the completely free WP-Spamfree Anti-Spam plugin for Wordpress! I can honestly say I didn’t initially believe it’s ability to “replace Askimet”, but I was kind of intrigued when I read the description “finally there is an anti-spam plugin for WordPress that provides an effective solution, without CAPTCHA’s, challenge questions, or other inconvenience to site visitors”.
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Posted at 04:34 PM
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