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May 24, 2012

Pandas, Penguins and Why I Don’t Do SEO

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Google warned us in advance about its planned webspam algorithmn update (now known as “Penguin”) and site owners who ignored those warnings are now paying the price. Many of the comments posted to Danny Sullivan’s post about the Penguin update verify search engine ranking downgrades and loss. Here are just a few examples: “I just [...]

Prayer for Spammers

If you tried to access the site yesterday, you probably found it a slow load – if it loaded at all. That’s because some dastardly, rotten, no-good email spammer hacked into the server and used a forgotten test blog to send upwards of a quarter million emails. The server crashed, but fortunately my fabulous web [...]

MasteryTV’s Tom Wood: Biggest Spammer in My Inbox

I signed up as a MasteryTV affiliate partner when it first launched and I’ve been trying to get off Tom Wood’s list ever since. In every email he sends there is a link labelled “Immediate and Permanent Removal from Mailings”. I’ve clicked that link (which is coded with my email address) each time I receive [...]