Recent Posts Tagged With 'spam'

• Why WP Needs a Compare Cache Against Post Plugin

  Posted on Sunday September 28th, 2008 at 09:26 in wordpress, spam, plugins, hacking

  Recently I had a few blogs hacked. The reason, simple - I didn’t upgrade my WP installs and I didn’t check every single plugin I installed for safety and security (who does) . Lots of people don’t, a simple query on Google will s...

• Google spidering its own custom search results?

  Posted on Monday February 25th, 2008 at 15:40 in spam, self referencing loops

  I was doing a little search this evening and found this amongst the results on the 1st page. I thought it might be something related to me being signed in to a Google account so I signed out and tried again. Same result. So I opened up IE7 and same ...

• Unfairness inherent in authorities - just another flaw in an algo

  Posted on Tuesday September 11th, 2007 at 04:59 in loans, search engines, spam, search marketing, algos

  Before I say too much else I just wanted to say that generally in most cases I think it unnecessary to be too specific when highlighting the failings and flaws of others. It’s too easy to point fingers and say, oh look at how crap so and so...

• Blogspot domains identified as fine purveyors of Spam

  Posted on Thursday July 12th, 2007 at 07:12 in spam, blogspot, squidoo, mahalo

  Free content based domains are beacons for Spam I was over at Bill Slawski’s excellent blog earlier today researching text to link proximity stuff, and stumbled across a post Microsoft Follows the Money to Find Spammers which referred to thi...