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[This Android Life] This Android Life » Blog Archive » Organised spam campaign riddles ...: 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.

[Security Watch - Internet Security News: IT security, Business security, Computer security, Network security, and more] theinvestblog.com spam and aimtrust.com ponzi scheme fraud: With most of the traffic for this site ranking high in these countries….Belarus, Ukraine, Nigeria anyone who is stupid enough to place their money with them deserves to be scammed….Most certainly a scam I have ever seen one. If the referral spam does not stop, they may have a new problems to deal with as my patience for such things has limitations.

[Antezeta Web Marketing] AWStats how to install & configure, resources, enhancements and ...: Similarly, the automated program will try make enough requests from www.dreamingdamsels.xxx to become one of the top referrers, landing in the AWStats Web Analytics Top Referrals report. If a site publishes it’s web analytics reports, www.dreamingdamsels.xxx will appear on the site.

[The Blackboard] A different kind of blacklist: Spam.: The problem is that behavior is indistinguishable from spambot which often find a blog and return if they were successful at leaving comments. (The addition of moderating first comments will actually minimize this frustration for brand-new visitors because by the time they can get into rapid fire blog argument, SpamKarma will already notice an approved comment with a date that is not extremely recent.

[Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing] Is Google Referrer Spamming To Detect Spam?: Because this experiment was developed in response to an urgent situation we moved quickly and as a result used an incorrect Google search referrer which we’re now working to fix. Thanks for calling this issue to our attention and we apologize for any confusion we may have caused.

[arnab's world - blog] Reputation Misrepresentation, Trail Paranoia and other side ...: Here, our favorite user Jane is logged into Facebook, and visits 2 pages on IMDB.com, checks the news on CNN, and then heads to Yelp to figure out where to eat. Interestingly enough, Facebook records all this information, and can tie it to her Facebook profile, and can thus come up with inferences like "Jane likes Romantic Movies, International News and Thai Food -- let's show her some ads for romantic getaways to Bali!"

[FrozenBlues Media Twin Cities Web Development Agency - Frozen Blues] Log File (Referrer) Spam & How We Block It: At FrozenBlues we have installed security measures (mod_security apache module) to protect our server and allow our hosting clients thwart this new sort of Spam. Besides filtering out spurious referrers with a default set of typical spam keywords (you can easily guess what they are), our clients can add and edit keywords and names of spam sites appearing in their site’s logs and banish them from appearing again.

[Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO] Webspam projects in 2010?: I want to suggest using Akismet or other community monitored spam detection services, but that would make blog spamming into a Google-Bowling activity. If it became known that submitting links to blogs was cause to get suspicious about a site, then falsely submitting sites in blogspam would become more common.

[Today Topic] Pm Forum | Today Topic: If you wanted to use forum marketing I would suggest finding a good list of forums that offer the use of standard html signature links, then start posting on the forum to increase your links, but don't spam or you may be banned. creating accounts for these, then the software will log into these accounts using the proxy ip's to hide your identity and increase your ranking.

[This Android Life] Organised spam campaign riddles the Android Market: 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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