submityourarticlesnow.com
Wow, these guys are really going for it with the forum spamming: submityourarticlesnow.com.
What’s even more impressive is that they sign-up multiple user accounts on each forum, all just effectively posting the same message - that submitting articles is a great way to drive traffic and rankings and to use the services of submityourarticlesnow.com.
Anyway, submityourarticlesnow.com - [...]
Beating the internet to a news story
It’s not often Platinax News picks up a news story before the major online news outlets - but it was nice to see that Google’s accidental deletion of the Google Blog was covered on Platinax News before places such as SEW and Threadwatch.
Sometimes Platinax can and does report on stories from experience, which aren’t covered [...]
Quick lesson in viral marketing
Threadwatch reports on the attempts of MSN to make it’s AdCenter go viral…
The lesson is, when product=free, the opportunity for viral marketing is greatest.
When people are told it will cost them money, the viral lure takes far more effort to hook users.
Ad:Tech - desperate to spam?
Paul Sinclair, European Sales Manager for DMG World Media cold-called a couple of weeks back to sell me a spot as an Exhibitor at Ad:Tech.
No thanks, I’m not doing that this year. Though he’s never heard of me or my company before, he offered instead to consider putting me on the speaker panel if [...]
Open Proxies and spam IPs
NOTE: This list is now being continued here: Blog Spam tracking.
Been getting quite a lot of automated spam recently.
Although Wordpress is generally pretty tooled up for binning spam automatically with a few simple rules, it tends to be reactive rather than proactive.
There is an option to block open proxies, but it doesn’t seem well updated [...]
40 Best Web Directories
Bob Mutch has turned himself into something of a directory specialist, and has been developing evaluated lists of directories for some time now.
He’s just changed his system of appraisal.
Rather than use figures such as PageRank and link volume to determine quality, he’s now set up a list of directories valued according to basic “trust” factors [...]
Google spider *does* find content without links
It’s something I’ve seen suggested on-and-off for a couple of years - both that the Google spider will visit URLs via the Google Toolbar, along with a claim that this may help facilitate spidering.
I’m seeing proof of spider activity on a closed site now - which answers the question quite firmly for me.
I’m setting up [...]
The Dangers of Drink Driving
I’ve had it in mind for some time to launch an anti-drink driving campaign sometime over the internet.
I don’t know why it seems to matter - hopefully just a matter of social responsibility, rather than a portent of future tragedy.
A particular frustration is that here in the UK safety campaigns are often plain sh!te.
The last [...]
The Power of DMOZ?
I’ve submited various sites to DMOZ in the past.
I found that commercial ones were unlikely to be listed unless I submitted to the regional sections for their category.
I stopped submiting precisely because it was so difficult to get sites listed in major sections that properly reflected their content, in addition to the use of often [...]
When blacklists go wrong
So someone decided to set up AdSenseBlacklist.com, where people can report supposed “spamsense” aka MFA (Made for AdSense) websites.
However, there are two interesting things being reported about this.
The first is that websites are going on the list that don’t even display AdSense.
The second…
…well, that’s the fun part. Apparently the person who runs AdSenseBlackList has the [...]
Some webmasters are plain dumb
So while on a routine search, I found some of my exclusive articles for my business site had be copied and published on a couple of different websites, including “big board” dnforum.com.
Published in entirely, with no source link.
I sent a polite e-mail to the sites, requesting these be taken down.
Apparently, the webmasters in question [...]
When spamming gets silly
Been a few blogspam runs against this site - had 73 the other day. The interesting thing is that a lot of it is gibberish built around links to bona-fide sites.
I guess the two options are:
1. It’s an attempt to see which blogs will publish blogspam spam, with results being tracked;
2. Script kiddies are doing [...]
Google News guidelines
Contacted Google News about a couple of issues this week.
The first was a request for inclusion of a news blog site I run as an individual - the response from Google News was that they do not accept submissions from individuals.
The second is a problem Google News has with Platinax News - the source was [...]
AdSense Terms of Use violations
Listen to Matt Cutts and you’ll easily get the impression that creating Spamsense sounds really dangerous - not only will you be delisted from Google, but Google will also cancel your AdSense account and invalidate pending monies. Ooh, the shivers.
However, today I found another site completely copying Platinax - the only difference being they strip [...]
Big business still clueless about identity theft
Telephone call:
Hello - I’m a total stranger - what’s your home address, post code and date of birth?
Ask what the phone call is about:
I’m sorry, we can’t give that information out.
Yes, this is the way that some businesses contact their customers.
I first got these from my old friend, British Telecom.
If you don’t pay [...]
Wannabe viral marketers still getting it wrong
We covered it in Old Marketing vs New Marketing - the internet is a community of people and their websites are their nodes of communication.
Therefore marketing now needs to be able to access this community in clear niches that reflect a client’s marketing base.
And therefore directly connect products and services with the user market [...]
When marketing gets aggressive
So I get sales calls to my business line.
My business line is for clients or potential clients to contact me. That’s why I have it.
I don;t have it simply so that other businesses can keep calling me to sell me their products/services - especially when most of them don’t even know my name.
If I’m [...]
The challenges of database work
I’m working with a set of content databases at the moment.
It’s been a stupidly laborious amount of work so far - uploading the databases has been a nightmare so far, with continual network connection time-outs.
Now that I’m setting up the sites online to work from the databases, I’m having to do a lot of [...]
Chris Beasley kicked out from Sitepoint
Andrew Johnson posts that Christ Beasley of Sitepoint has had his blog removed and moderator privileges revoked from Sitepoint. Chris posts in the thread just linked to, and reports basics of the issue on his new blog.
Overall situation is that he’s been basically pushed out.
I first cut my teeth on SEO at Sitepoint under Chris [...]
