AOL: Better Late Than Never

Checking my stats recently I came across this bit in place of a search keyword my visitors came from: [encrypted by AOL] I guess it’s their belated reaction to the old story with their search data. Well not releasing the …

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No Scott 5 cent Content Network Clicks Are NOT Possible

Once upon a time, every spammer publisher was using AdSense for their sites monetization and it was making them enough cash to keep them happy. The times have changed since and the evil Google has introduced separate bid setup for …

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Go Pound Privacy!

This is slightly old news – a couple days old – but the idea is great and needs as much support as possible so I’m blogging about it. There is a new initiative aimed at protecting search engine users privacy …

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Selling links with class

Once upon a time it was enough to just break your homepage into pixels and sell them all for a million dollars to become the coolest linkbait on the net. Not anymore. With the amount of clones created for the …

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Ruby Tuesday Spammer Style

She would never say where spam came from TOS don’t matter cause it’s gone While the sun is out Or in the darkest night Noone knows She spams and goes Good bye SERPs relevance Who could spam the hell out …

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What’s Google doing with buy Viagra SERPs?

Checked G’s buy Viagra SERPs a couple hours ago and it said “Results 1 – 97 of about 147,000 for buy viagra“. The rest were in the omitted results, and #2, 3 and 4 were subdomains of the same domain. …

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Why it pays to register your name everywhere you go

.. or what happens if you let it run unattended. The real Scoble‘s blog The other Scoble Spot the difference, as they say 😉 The guy did a very modest job of the misleading similarity though, I guess if I …

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Anti-.edu links campaign

So I see people slagging off .edu links a lot recently. I also know that people like to generalize, jump to conclusions and seek cureall solutions. So I think to myself, fine, very fine, the less competition non-creative spammers pestering …

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Blogs suck but some blogs suck worse than others

I haven’t been commenting on nearly as many blogs recently as I used to in the old days but I came across a post today that I really had somethng to say about. This was a blogger I’ve never seen …

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Google AdSense TOS impossible to comply with

So we have all read Google’s AdSense TOS and remember the bit about not modifying their ads code: Prohibited Uses. You shall not < ...>  (ii) edit, modify, filter or change the order of the information contained in any Ad, …

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