Posts Tagged ‘spam’


Google Will Smack Down Content Scrapers… Finally

By on Tuesday, January 25th, 2011 | No Comments

Yep. Every single day, I get all these pings and trackbacks from crappy content scraper sites, and it’s insulting! I mean, come on. If you’re going to use my content, dammit… give me credit for it, and write something of your own. I don’t spend half an hour every day coming up with something to [...]

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Is RSS Lagging Behind?

By on Wednesday, April 7th, 2010 | 7 Comments

People just don’t seem to GET RSS. It’s a cool little acronym, and it means “Really Simple Syndication.” What makes it simple is that it’s completely text based. A feed has no javascript or anything that spiders hate, so they can skim a feed easily and be merrily on their spidery way. Plus, RSS updates [...]

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SEO: What’s Spam?

By on Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 | 6 Comments

When you think of “spam,” as it involves online business, the mind traditionally flies to email. Unsolicited bulk email or UBE is most definitely spam. In this case, the recipient never agreed to receive email from the sender, and it goes against the CAN SPAM act of 2003. But some websites are classified as SPAM [...]

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