A post by Barry on SEL discusses cloaking AdWords URL’s to get around the display URL policy from Google (displayed domain in the ad has to exactly match the destination domain for the ad). The source for the “news” is a post by Stephen, who shows a good example of it, on which Matt commented [...]

I told the people who attended my session at SES New York a while back that spam in the Netherlands was just as abundant as everywhere, just more stupid… Well this is a nice example of such ridiculous noframes spam, which ranks them #1 for some pretty competitive keywords, check out how their google cache [...]

Quote:: “There’s not much more deceptive or misleading than a fake story without any disclosure that the story is hoax.” Ok Matt, please tell me, how would you make a top 10 for these keywords: crucifixion assumption of mary papal infallibility You know Matt, that I am with you on quite a lot of spam [...]

Dave pointed out last week that 302 spam is far from gone. Wiep pointed me at another form of spam that’s far from gone, combined with 302 spam. If you search for “hypotheekoffers” and flip to page 2, you’ll see a whole lot of subdomain spam. These subdomains 302 redirect to one domain, resulting in [...]

With Google FriendConnect, you could already allow people to become a “member” of your sites community, and do all sorts of fun stuff with that. But when they were logged in like that, they still had to enter their name, email address and website. This FriendConnect Commenting plugin fixes that. Download this plugin You can [...]

WordPress is well known for its plugins and themes, but not enough people know and love what you can do in your themes functions.php. Chris Pearson showed his love for them back in May, and he did a great job of explaining how you can bring your own functions.php file to each and every theme [...]

I’ve seen it happen so often. People have a great blog, and at some point, they decide they need a new look and feel. They then decide to either buy one or use one of the free themes available at wordpress.org. There’s a couple of things they’ll look at, usually in the order: layout / [...]

Lately I’ve noticed a lot of people using the Digg button in Sociable to submit my posts to Digg. While I appreciate the gesture, the chance of any of my “normal” posts making it to the front page of Digg is minimal. To make it to the front page, you currently need 200+ diggs. Getting [...]

So somebody copied virtually all the code from my robots meta plugin, put it in a “Platinum SEO” plugin, and conveniently forgot to attribute the code to me… The GPL isn’t that hard to deal with, but somehow, people manage to fuck even that up. I’ve emailed them and posted a formal complaint to the [...]

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