Jobsite.co.uk are forum spamming
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 24th, 2008 Published in: SpamQuick rant here. I run quite a busy careers site and we get a lot of spam on the forums. Mostly automated porn stuff, some other random bits and pieces as well. That’s just what you need to deal with when you run a forum. Over the past few weeks, the SEO for Jobsite.co.uk has [...]
Karma be gone! Reporting paid links to Google is a legitimate business move!
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 16th, 2008 Published in: Google, Link Building, SpamDavid Wallace has a nice write up about reporting paid links to Google this week, which is based on the back of a poll by Blogstorm. Both posts have some interesting comments on them and while I don’t agree with some of them, the articles are well worth a read. The key areas that grabbed my [...]
Mahalo – spam has had a facelift courtesy of Jason Calacanis
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: June 1st, 2007 Published in: SpamSo I guess I don’t need to point out the background on Jason Calacanis’s latest project, Mahalo (no link – I don’t link to spam). Most SEOs out there know the amusing battle he’s been having with the SEO industry. He’s one of these guys that most SEOs meet from time to time (usually online) [...]
Link spam on popular news sources
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: April 24th, 2007 Published in: SpamI was reading an article over at SearchEngineLand just now and this thought occurred. Where is the line drawn when a link on a page stops becoming a simple tool for user navigation and becomes a much more insidious spam-like concept? At one end of the scale you can browse through the likes of the [...]
Comment spam is getting boring
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 8th, 2007 Published in: SpamGone are the days of viagra, casinos and porn – the new age of comment spam is here – auto upholstiery, wheelchair mobility, self storage….Zzzzzzzzzzzz Are all markets getting more competitive or are SEOs just getting more lazy? MG
“Viral Friend Generator” Video – Horrid, dirty spam
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: March 8th, 2007 Published in: Marketing, Public Relations, Spam, Viral Marketing“Viral Friend Generator” – this is a video that has been hitting a load of video distribution sites claiming to show how to raise the traffic to your site by a whopping 300%! WOW! Unfortunately what they don’t say is that the dirty, low quality video has been referral spamming marketing related sites to drive [...]
Berkeley.edu webspam abuse by raph.us
Posted by: Marketing Guy Date posted: January 5th, 2007 Published in: Search Engine Optimisation, SpamA quick check of indexed pages shows a load of custom poker / casino text files uploaded to the Berkeley.edu server which then subsequently redirect to a list of casino sites. Same works for viagra, and I’m sure a range of other terms. The pages redirect to random spam pages on the domain raph.us (no [...]