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Thu
27
Jul '06

LinkMetro Stinks

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Excerpt: I have never seen such horrible irrelevent link exchange requests from fellow webmasters since Axandra's Arelis product caught on in a big way a few years back.  The site is called LinkMetro, and it stinks.Google finally squashed the 2-way link exchange as the SEO-currency; but now LinkMetr ...
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Mon
24
Jul '06

Microsoft's Anti-Spam Project

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Excerpt: I said awhile back in my post, Google Violates Computer Science that people have too much faith in Google.  I said that even light obfuscation of Javascript redirect code, such as rot13ing the offending code would likely trick even the formidable Google.  I may have changed my mind.  ...
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Fri
14
Jul '06

How to Deal with Content Theft

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Excerpt: Incidentally, some scraper, here, was stealing my content and posting it, verbatim, on his site.  I never authorized this.  He was even linking back and thusly sending pings to me -- I got alerted to each "citation."  Not so bright.  He also struck the content at ha.cke ...
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Tue
13
Jun '06

Obvious Spam Signatures; Digital Point Co-op, Free Counters, etc.

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Excerpt: Today, Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable blogged about the news that Link Vault, one of the better link-networks in my opinion, was seemingly banned by Google.  For whatever reason their domain dropped out of the index.  It happens, but it was probably just a glitch in this case.& ...
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