In most blog applications, there is a feature called Trackback, which allows the user to send a trackback or notification to a different site or another blog that the user referred to in his own blog. Its main purpose is to notify another site or weblog that you are talking about that site or weblog or its contents in your own weblog. Blog applications WordPress and Movable Type, to name a few, have this facility. When the blog’s owner receives the notification through his or…
Tips On How To Deal With Anonymous Comment Spam
Have you ever experience being flooded with anonymous comments? If yes, then chances are you have been a victim of comment spam. As with everything on the Internet, spam had also evolved. They are no longer limited to email. Today they can infiltrate and cause havoc in your blogs and Web sites, on which you allow user to leave comments. Comment spam is becoming a serious problem nowadays, which needed to be resolved immediate.
Fighting Spam!
It’s been nearly a decade since spammers and their enemies begun evolving competitively. As with the classic cheetah/gazelle model originally formulated by Darwin, each time one group becomes a little faster or more agile, its adversaries develop traits for outwitting and outrunning it.
In addition to wasting people’s time with unwanted e-mail, spam also eats up a lot of network bandwidth. Consequently, there are many organizations, as well as individuals, who have taken i…
How To Know If It Is A Link Farm Spam Page
A link farm is a network of sites that link to other sites for the sole purpose of increasing link popularity. This is when a website gets hundreds of links to unrelated sites in exchange for reciprocal links. This is termed as spamming and any website who relates to link farms is penalized by removal from a search engine?s index.
Backgrounder on Link Farms
Link farms were originally developed by search engine optimizers to take advantage of the Inktomi search engine?s …
Simple Steps to Defeating SPAM
SPAM is a growing problem which isn’t going away any time soon. These aren’t steps which will combat SPAM against the entire nation, but this will help you as an individual defeat SPAM and manage your email better.
Spammers And Spam Hunters
Sometimes I don’t know which people are the worst. Those that spam or those that say they are going after spammers.
I deleted 145 spam posts on one of my blogs today. Fortunately I have moderate comments turned on so they never actually get posted. That makes the spammers bad, but that?s the worst inconvenience spammers have caused me.
However those that supposedly are our Spam saviors. Those that say they are fighting spam have caused me more problems than the spammers…
Spam: Where it Came From, and How to Escape It.
In 1936, long before the rise of the personal computer, Hormel Foods created SPAM. In 2002, the company will produce it’s six billionth can of the processed food product. But that mark was passed long ago in the world of Internet spam.
The Spamming Trap For Online Business Beginners
You could be spamming without knowing it. Yet the internet community will not forgive you for it. You should know all forms of spamming so as to avoid it in all your internet marketing activity.
Two Main Groups Of Spam!
There are two main types of spam, and they have different effects on Internet users. Cancellable Usenet spam is a single message sent to 20 or more Usenet newsgroups. (Through long experience, Usenet users have found that any message posted to so many newsgroups is often not relevant to most or all of them.) Usenet spam is aimed at lurkers, people who read newsgroups but rarely or never post and give their address away. Usenet spam robs users of the utility of the newsgroups …
What Is Spam?
You have probably seen an increase in the amount of junk mail which shows up in your email box, or on your favorite newsgroup. The activities of a small number of people are becoming a bigger problem for the Internet.
Chain letters that ask for money, whether for reports or just straight up, are illegal in the US whether they are in postal mail or e-mail. Report these frauds to your local US Postmaster. You may see e-mail coming from Nigeria or another African country, sen…
Importance of Genuine SEO Techniques
This article tells you of how you can do SEO genuinely and the importance of doing it. Without doing genuine SEO, you can penalize yourself, and your website, by permanently removing your site from the search results of major search engines.
How To Avoid Phishing And Spamming Online
Phishing on AOL was closely associated with the warez community that exchanged pirated software. Those who would later phish on AOL during the 1990s originally used fake, algorithmically generated credit card numbers to create accounts on AOL, which could last weeks or possibly months. After AOL brought in measures in late 1995 to prevent this, early AOL crackers resorted to phishing for legitimate accounts.