Florida's Effect on SEO Spam
A few years ago, in the days before the introduction of Google’s Florida Update, SEO was a quasi-Masonic vocation practiced by an expanding order of techno-monks who acted openly but held secret the...
View ArticleSearch Engine SPAM Strikes Again
We were recently contacted by a client who had found a number of occurrences of search engine SPAM. What made this SPAM a problem is that they were targeting the clients business name and coming up in...
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StepForth’s Predictions for 2007
Another New Years has come and gone and over the past few weeks search industry professionals have been releasing their search market predictions for 2007. I have steered clear of reading them because...
View ArticleHow Safe is Your Search?
Roughly 4 percent of all search results display links to potentially dangerous websites, according to a report published by McAfee’s SiteAdvisor, on Monday. The report notes that Yahoo results are the...
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Obvious Email Spam is Still Successful
This is an off-topic post that I felt could not be missed. The Register wrote today about a type of email spam that is extremely common and rather obvious BUT surprisingly it appears some Internet...
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Yahoo Offers Tips for Stopping Scammers
“Spam Spam Spam Sausage and Spam!” The words from the hilarious Monty Python sketch play unbounded in my mind every time I hear the word “Spam”. Unfortunately these days the inedible version of Spam is...
View ArticleYahoo Partners with Abaca to Reduce SPAM
If you find that your Yahoo email account is being hit with too much spam, all that junk may be significantly cut back in the very near future. On Jan 20th, it was announced that Yahoo will begin using...
View ArticleHow a Google Penalty Can Make Your Site Stronger
Over the past 12 years consulting on web marketing I have answered countless questions but one question I receive often stands out from all; how to remove a Google penalty. The following is an example...
View ArticleE-mail Scams to Watch For
Remember the Nigerian scam messages way back when? Perhaps not so much way back when but quite awhile ago and still on occasion coming into my junk mail folder. Scams are annoying, fear mongering, and...
View ArticleSEO Spam Emails
Something that frustrates me is the onslaught of SPAM SEO emails from companies and individuals phishing for one’s information. I often receive forwards from clients sending me these emails asking me...
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