Minutes after the launch of Google’s famous Real Time Search, the Internet marketing community began to spam the scrolling SERPs. Google gave birth to a new spam industry. I’m sure Google’s WebSpam team will pull the plug sooner or later, but as of...

I appreciate Google’s brand new News User Agent. It is, however, not a perfect solution, because it doesn’t distinguish indexing and crawling. Disallow is a crawler directive, that simply tells web robots “do not fetch my content”. It doesn’t prevent...

I stole this pamphlet’s title (and more) from Google’s post Hard facts about comment spam for a reason. In fact, Google spams the Web with useless clutter, too. You doubt it? Read on. That’s the URI from the link...

Every once in a while I switch to Dr Evil mode. That’s a “do more evil” type of pamphlet. Don’t bother reading the disclaimer, just spam away … Why the heck should you invest valuable time into crafting out compelling content, when there’s a...

When you run a website that deals with user generated content (UGC), this pamphlet is for you. #bad_news Otherwise you might enjoy it. #malicious_joy Jump station Background Risk Potential Defense Tactics Discuss Not that the recent –and ongoing–...