Targeting Spam > April 30, 2010
This Android Life » Blog Archive » Organised spam campaign riddles ...
[This Android Life] Some of our readership out there may be players or ex-players of Pocket Empires, a pretty popular medievil themed empire building game in which players can get ahead quicker by donating money for gems. We’ve never played it ourselves as none of us here are keen on the pay for resources model, but we’ve heard very good things about the game. Sadly, though, many of our readers (particularly those who are developers who have published apps to the market) will be more familiar with Pocket Empires through the sheer volume spam comments related to the game that have been appearing under completely unrelated games over the last few days. That, in itself, is bad enough, but what if the developer had actually been encouraging users to spam by rewarding them with in-game resources? Well, sadly, that’s an allegation that’s being made by a number of members of the development community, who are accusing Pocket Play, the developers of Pocket Empires, of offering it’s playerbase gems in exchange for leaving Pocket Empire related comments in the Android Market.
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HowStuffWorks "How Spam Works"
[HowStuffWorks: ComputerStuff Daily RSS Feed] 2 Internet service provider MSN plus e-mail service Hotmail, says it blocks an average of 2.4 billion spams per day. According to research firm Radicati Group in Palo Alto, Calif., spam is expected to account for 45% of the 10.9 trillion messages sent around the world in 2003.
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Posted at 04:32 PM
April 30, 2010
This Android Life » Blog Archive » Organised spam campaign riddles ...
[This Android Life] Some of our readership out there may be players or ex-players of Pocket Empires, a pretty popular medievil themed empire building game in which players can get ahead quicker by donating money for gems. We’ve never played it ourselves as none of us here are keen on the pay for resources model, but we’ve heard very good things about the game. Sadly, though, many of our readers (particularly those who are developers who have published apps to the market) will be more familiar with Pocket Empires through the sheer volume spam comments related to the game that have been appearing under completely unrelated games over the last few days. That, in itself, is bad enough, but what if the developer had actually been encouraging users to spam by rewarding them with in-game resources? Well, sadly, that’s an allegation that’s being made by a number of members of the development community, who are accusing Pocket Play, the developers of Pocket Empires, of offering it’s playerbase gems in exchange for leaving Pocket Empire related comments in the Android Market.
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Posted at 04:34 PM
HowStuffWorks "How Spam Works"
[HowStuffWorks: ComputerStuff Daily RSS Feed] 2 Internet service provider MSN plus e-mail service Hotmail, says it blocks an average of 2.4 billion spams per day. According to research firm Radicati Group in Palo Alto, Calif., spam is expected to account for 45% of the 10.9 trillion messages sent around the world in 2003.
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Posted at 04:32 PM
April 26, 2010
No Follow Links | Search Engine Optimization Blog
[Search Engine Optimization Blog] Google has began using the no follow links as a machine readable revelation for paid links and therefore keeping them from gaining any credibility in the search engines results. The web owners are still debating over whether or hurting them as many pages are paying for links to be traded on their site in hopes of raising their page rank.
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Posted at 04:04 PM
Dofollow and Nofollow Links | Blogging and SEO Tips
[Blogging and SEO Tips] Dofollow and nofollow attributes are originally created by Google to reduce the amount of spam in the community of bloggers. Before its implementation, many people like to leave your links in the comment body in its comments on blog entries.
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Posted at 04:03 PM
April 23, 2010
Greek spammers email addresses blacklist | Into.the.Void.
[Into.the.Void.] Thanks for the reply Jeremy, you are not wrong about blacklisting email addresses in general, but this blacklist has a very specific target, “greek spammers”. And I can tell you that it’s quite effective, since most of them use the same From: addresses over and over to send their “newsletters”.
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Posted at 04:34 PM
My BLOGS being hit be SCRAPEBOX spammers - Black Hat Forum Black ...
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Posted at 04:33 PM
April 19, 2010
Spammers And Spam Hunters
[Global Internet Marketing Articles WebSite] They have locked me out of one of my own blogs and one I manage for a client because their spambot said it might be spam. It also says that if you are a human reading this message then of course I am not likely a spambot and they will correct the situation.
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Posted at 04:04 PM
Hitting back at spammers with OpenBSD and spamd - Hungry Hacker
[Hungry Hacker] The subject of today’s rant is the burning desire we all have to smack a spammer, or bludgeon his gonads with a 9 Iron. We all wanna get back at spammers, and let’s face it, there’s very little chance that we actually will.
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Posted at 04:03 PM
April 16, 2010
Scott's programming adventures | Blog Spam
[My dotNet Adventures] Hi, I'm Scott. I develop in C#/ASP.NET/Silverlight and I create e-commerce web sites for small business
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Posted at 04:33 PM
Blog spam is out of control!
[Balfes.net] Not sure where to begin with this one but I want to let my readers know the pain and suffering I go through each day. If it wasn’t for the fact I have a WordPress application on my iPhone and marking comments as spam is as easy as a single click I think I would just kill the site. I am now getting 5-20 spam posts a day on this site and I even have a basic spam control on the comment form. I could log into the actual site each day and click the spam button on each of these but I like just doing it on my iPhone as soon as I see a comment. The one thing I do not want is these people getting any hits or clicks from my site so deleting them as soon as possible is imperative. I guess this is just “business as usual” as a site becomes more popular, I can’t imagine how bad this is for really popular sites!
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Posted at 04:33 PM
April 12, 2010
Hacker News | Ask HN: 2 karma minimum to lock out spam bots
[Hacker News] There are actually already spambots that do this on reddit -- they find a highly-voted comment in a reddit thread, follow the link to the article and repost the comment there (filling in the URL they want if the site in question allows it). Unless you look carefully at what people claim as "their site", or happen to read reddit as well, they can be hard to catch.
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Posted at 04:04 PM
Are You Using These Wordpress Plugins That Will Monetize Your Blog ...
[HooTrader] As for us everyday non-developer WordPress fanatics who are constantly searching for cool new plugins to make our site attract visitors and earn some money, the WordPress Plugin Database is populated with plugins that can help generate web site traffic to your blog, sell your ebooks, share web site links, podcast your message, offer a public forum for returning visitors, and fight spam in the process.
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Posted at 04:03 PM
April 09, 2010
Recent Increase In Trackback Spam
[gHacks technology news] Spammers use that method to get links from sites they would never get links from otherwise. The Wordpress plugin mentioned at The Big Picture is called Related Blog Posts and automates that process.
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Posted at 04:34 PM
Top Wordpress Plugins
[Egully.com Shopping Blog] 18. Spam Karma 2.3 (http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/). Spam Karma is a great free replacement for Askimet. Very powerful and thorough. Download it here: Spam Karma 2.3 Download. ...
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Posted at 04:32 PM
April 05, 2010
Junior Eliott » Blog Archive » Nizoral AntiDandruff Shampoo, 7 ...
[Junior Eliott] a target=_blank rel=nofollow href='http://www.amazon.com/Nizoral-AntiDandruff-Shampoo-7-Ounce-Bottles/dp/B001E96P28?tag=absolutebestorg-20”²img style=float:left;margin: 0 10px 10px 0; src=http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/11ZWKB9G03L ...
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Posted at 04:03 PM
Should I Use NoFollow On Affiliate Links?
[SEO Rankings] I don’t actively sell links on this blog, and when anyone has contacted me to add a DoFollow link to their website through a product reveiw or similar, for compensation, I have denied. In some cases, if they had a product that I felt might be a good fit for my readers, I have offered to let them write a guest post with a DoFollow link as long as the post was informational and not promotional, and the links complimented their message.
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