From andybeard.eu
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Nice search engine friendly links are a great way to reward valuable members of the community of any blog, but they are certainly not a right, and still find myself deleting 50+ worthless comments every day.
Most disturbing of all though are the SEO consultants and agencies who I have caught commenting on behalf of their clients, or as themselves with a link through to a client's site. Some of them are totally dumb about it.
I now have a new...
- Twitter launches tool for nailing spammers – AFP (cooeesearch.com)
- Twitter Spammers?!!!! (websitebabble.com)
From bulk mail to email to social media: The next chapter in the checkered history of spamming is now being written via status updates and tweets. However, Twitter is trying to ensure that the chapter is a short one following the company's introduction Tuesday of a new "report as spam" button on user profiles.
From ecommercetimes.com
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- Spammers hit social media sites (hindu.com)
- Facebook wins £430m anti-spamming case (tech.co.uk)
- Australia. Text spammers fined $16m (textually.org)
A few stories ClickZ's editors are reading:
Craigslist Expands Legal Battle Against Spammers Files four federal suits in the golden state.
Kaspersky Lab Detects Use of YouTube for Video Spam Security firm discovers mass spam mailings with links to video ads hosted on YouTube.
Nielsen Calls Client Pow-Wow To Pitch Online Measurement Plans Will present agenda for measuring online video viewership alongside broadcast audiences. (Broadcasting...
From clickz.com
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- Next generation spammers rise up in Asia, India and Brazil (go.theregister.com)
- Editors Desk: Spammers again (thehive.modbee.com)
- Craigslist taking more spammers to court (adotas.com)
You know those ads on social networking sites saying "Inbox (5). Nick, someone in Sydney has a crush on you!", with your name, profile picture, and city in the ad? Dennis Yu made millions off them. He explains how.
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From crikey.com.au
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Twitter Nov. 5 began the slow rollout of its retweet button, which blasts out tweets users are fond of to their followers in one fell swoop. This is a sensible alternative to making Twitterers copy, paste and tweet links they love, add the names of the tweet authors with a RT (retweet) tag. Twitter also said it was experimentally tweaking its trending topics to help users find more relevant tweets. The idea is to thwart spammers, which are...
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From eweek.com
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Google has tweaked its guidelines for local businesses that use the Google Maps Local Business Center. The new guidelines are listed on Google’s Business Listing Quality Guidelines page. On Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz shows both the old and new guidelines, while on his blog, Mike Blumenthal charts the differences between the two versions.
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From searchengineland.com
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- Google Groups killed by spammers (rc3.org)
- A new way to report spammers on Twitter (cooeesearch.com)
- Now Report Spammers On Twitter With A Single Click (consumerist.com)
Cyberoam, a division of Elitecore Technologies and the innovator of identity-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions, today announced the Q3 2009 Internet threats trend report, prepared in collaboration with its partner, Commtouch. Among the ...
From feedburner.com
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- Spammers Continue to Abuse the Names of Top Government Executives by Misusing... (resourceshelf.com)
