Jun | 14 | 2010

The Dreaded Blog Spammers

Posted by Professor as Spam, Tips spam

Referrer values are passed by web browsers and show how a page was come by. Let's say you search on Google for websites about a particular subject. If you click on a search result from a to visit a website then the destination website will have an entry in its access logs showing a referral from the originating website, Google. Referrer values can be very useful in applications such as security and are essential to webmasters as they show how their site is being linked to. From a web access blog that has been spammed, ...

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Jan | 25 | 2010

Why You Are Losing Ground in Search Results Pages

Posted by Jimmy as Marketing and Search Optimization, Spam, Tips As promised in my post Reasons for Sudden Plunge in Blog Traffic I will be discussing the possible reasons for a sudden drop in search rank. I already wrote about this in the past but concentrated on FALSE ALARMS. However, what do you do when you find out that your search rank has indeed dropped? Just like finding out the reason for a decrease in traffic, the first thing you need to do is find out WHY. Major reasons could be: 1. spam - If you are a splog then you have most likely been discovered. However, if your blog ...

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Jul | 10 | 2007

The CAPTCHA has been pwnd!

Posted by Jeff as Blogging News, Blogging Tools, Spam So, you think CAPTCHAs would cut your spam comments in half? Well, think again. Just a little over a year after Google let loose audio CAPTCHAs (the most common implementation of which is an accessibility icon next to visual, or image CAPTCHA, that play a recording of a series of numbers and/or letters, dumbed down by some background noise) to the brewing security-conscious public, it appears that this, too, has been defeated. Security company BitDefender reports identifying a new Trojan, dubbed Trojan.Spammer.HotLan.A, taking over and zombify-ing machines, using unsuspecting users' computers to generate Yahoo! and Hotmail ...

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Jun | 03 | 2007

reCAPTCHA: More than the Usual Anti-Spam Measure

Posted by Sophia as Blogging Tools, Spam It started with junk mail in real life, creeped into our virtual mailboxes, and has now invaded our blogs as comments and trackbacks. Blog spam is usually characterized by generic advertisements for silly stuff including but not limited to porn, warez, lotteries, pills, insurance, and real estate---often with a suspicious-looking URL. You start getting spammed when spambots find your blog. Unfortunately, that's the price you have to pay for being "popular." The good news is, many developers have thought of ways to combat comment spam. Perhaps the most famous right now is Akismet, which has the following Spam ...

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Apr | 21 | 2007

An Apprenticeship for Promising Blog Careers

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design, Design and Themes, Monetization, Opinion, Plugins, Promotion, Spam, Submissions, Syndication, Templates, Terminology, Tips Many see blogging as a plain write and post scenario. Others use it as a means of training themselves for better things to look forward to such as perhaps leading towards being among the professional bloggers that are in demand today. Anyone can be a problogger if they so choose. All it needs is exposure and practice. Blogger Apprenticeship Program

All probloggers have started from the same area. It just needs to be remembered that all things need practice. This is what new bloggers are up to today. Blogging starts from an apprenticeship stage to ...

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Apr | 17 | 2007

Technical Words May Dismay Your Blog Audience

Posted by Professor as Blog Tutorial, Creating a Blog, Design and Themes, Monetization, Opinion, Promotion, Spam, Templates, Terminology, Tips a puzzled reader

Anyone who blogs is out to impress people. The use of deep-meaning words, technical adages, and uncommon terminologies may be appreciated in some ways. But they can also be a means of turning away the blog reader class you may cater to for the reason that they are too hard to understand. One thing about blogs is that they were made for a reason. This reason is that of easily understanding the usual hard to understand terminologies in the easiest way possible through detailed explanation through the view of a professional. This is the level to ...

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