Tag: Spam

Gooey Search: Kickstarter Project Claims To Be Google On Steroids (With Privacy)
There's an interesting Kickstarter project called Gooey Search, whi...
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Matt Cutts Shares Something You Should Know About Old Links
Google's Matt Cutts has put out a new Webmaster Help video discussing something that's probably on a lot of webmasters' minds these days: what if you linked to a good piece of cont...
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Comment Spammers: These Links Are Not Helping You
In light of Google's Penguin update, it seems like a good time to suggest that you don't spam blog comments. Even if you're...
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SEOmoz Takes On Webspam With Ambitious Project, Talks Penguin Update
SEOmoz is working on a new spam research project aimed at classifying, identifying and removing (or at least limiting) the link juice that spam...
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Google Penguin Update: Google Granted Another Possibly Related Patent
Google released the Penguin update a couple weeks ago, in an effort to rid its search engine results of webspam. The update...
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‘Likejackers’ Settle Over Facebook Scam
**Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly spelled the company named in this settlement. This has been corrected. We apologize for the error....
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Google Penguin Update: Report Spam With Google Docs
You can learn a lot of little helpful tidbits by listening to what Googles head of webspam has to say, and lucky for webmasters, he's always saying through various channels on the...
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Google Penguin Update: Google Has Read, Processed Almost All Spam Reports
Google's Matt Cutts recently tweeted that people should fill out a form to report post-Penguin spam. "We're reading feedback," he said. .ditto19603042651...
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Google Webspam Update: Where’s The Viagra? [Updated]
Update: Viagra.com is back at number one. As you may know, Google launched a new algorithm update, dubbed...
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Computer Researchers and Google Develop an Algorithm to Identify Fake Reviews
Computer Science researchers have teamed up with Google to investigate how SPAM reviews online can be identified automatically and shut down. The research was published by Arjun M...
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Twitter Spam Lawsuit Detailed in Court Filings
Last week I reported on the lawsuit Twitter has filed against the companies res...
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President Obama’s Email Tactics Upset Jon Stewart
Worldwide levels of spam email are down, but here in the U.S., many of us are dealing with a serious k...
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Twitter Sues Spam Tool Creators in Federal Court
Twitter has announced it filed a federal lawsuit in San Francisco against companies who provide the tools Twitter spammers use. In a post on the Twitter...
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Gmail Now Tells You Why An Email Was Marked Spam
Not everyone delves into the dark depths of their Gmail spam folder, but for those that do: Have you ever wondered why Gmail marked a particular email as spam? Now you can easil...
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Social Media Security Basics Infographic
Social media is more popular than ever, and so are viruses, malware and online scams. The chart below sheds some light upon how important it is for social networking users to stay...
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