Lately my blog has seen a number of new users registering. The strange thing is, is that this user uses an email adress that looks the same time after time. He/She then doesn’t post any information / comment. And the next day another user is added.
You can see the following image copy-pasted from my admin [...]
Just browsing around i came to the following interesting list: Elemental Truths: 10 Tips for Utterly Destroying Your Blog and Your Credibility: Part 1
The one that really got my attention was step 5:
Step 5: Become a Trawling Vessel that Gathers Up the Hard Work of Others and Never Create Anything Yourself.There is actually software [...]
Mapping the Mal Web – McAfee did a report on risky sites around the world
Even though the Netherlands (.nl), Germany (.de) and the United Kingdom (.uk) are all relatively safe TLDs, ranking 31st, 33rd and 51st most risky, each of their TLDs account for more than 2 million clicks to red and yellow sites [...]
Three out of every four unique Blogspot.com URLs that appeared in the top 50 results for commercial queries were spam, the study said. Blogspot is the hosting site for Google’s blogging service. Blogs created for marketing purposes are sometimes referred to as “splogs.”
This quote comes from the story: Study Exposes ‘Search Spam’ which shows some [...]