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SEO Is Not Spam – Finally Says Google – Search Newz
Oct 25th
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SEO Is Not Spam – Finally Says Google
Search Newz "We dont consider SEO to be spam," " this is the Google view as presented by Matt Cutts. Matt is the head of Google's anti spam squad. And now the Google's new definition of SEO- "SEO is a valid way to help people find what theyre looking for via … Useful Social Media and SEO Tools For Developers Google's Matt Cutts: 'SEO is not spam' Discover SEO Company for Online Business Services and SEO Training Courses |
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Google Says SEO Is Not Spam
Oct 24th
Google’s Matt Cutts, head of the Web Spam Team, has gone on record by saying Google does not consider SEO to be spam. Matt said outright, “we don’t consider SEO to be spam” and added, “SEO is a valid way to help people find what they are looking for to find what they…
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Eric Ward, Richard Stokes on SMN Thursday: Debunking the Myths of Link Spam Detection by @smnwebcasts
Oct 4th
Search Marketing Now, our sister site, hosts a webcast this Thursday, October 6, “Inside the Black Box: Debunking the Myths of Link Spam Detection – and How You Can Benefit From It”
Link-building expert Eric Ward and AdGooroo CEO Richard Stokes will take a look inside the “black box” of the search…
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Google Places Fails to Stop Spam, Abuse
Sep 6th
The New York Times’ large spotlight is on Google again, this time showing how easy it is for local business owners to become victims of abuse from spammers fraudulently reporting a business as closed. Google promises a solution is in the wor…
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Google Hiring Spam Fighters In Dublin
Aug 23rd
Kaspar Szymanski from Google’s search quality team announced on the Google Webmaster blog that his office is hiring Search Quality Associates to work in the Dublin, Ireland office. Search Quality Associates are basically Google web spam fighters. They are responsible for digging deep into…
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King of Spam Seen on Google Plus, Turns Himself in to FBI For Facebook Phishing
Aug 5th
Spam King Sanford Wallace has turned himself in to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Wallace is facing multiple counts of fraud and related activity and has been charged with three counts of intentional damage to a protected computer and two counts of criminal contempt. Wallace, who is notorious in spam circles and has been advocating for spam since the 1990s, ran a phishing scam through Facebook that resulted in more than 27 million spam messages.
Wallace was released on $100,000 bail. In 2009 Facebook sued Wallace for his part in spam messages on Facebook and was awarded a $711 million settlement. Most recently, Wallace has been seen on Google Plus where the majority of his pictures and posts are from nightclubs. He currently lists his occupation as “nightclub business / poker” and Google Plus lists his current residence as Las Vegas.
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Wallace was banned from Facebook, which court documents show he violated by creating a fake profile and logging into Facebook on a Virgin airlines flight from Las Vegas to New York. Wallace also violated the ban by creating a profile called David Sinful-Saturdays Fredericks that was active from Jan. 26 to Feb. 16, 2011.
Wallace started his reign as the self-styled Spam King in the mid-1990s when he formed a company called Cyber Promotions (Cyberpromo) that was one of the first companies on the Internet to be widely blacklisted for sending unsolicited emails. The company was dissolved shortly thereafter. In 2004 the Federal Trade Commission filed suit against Wallace alleging that his new company put spyware on users’ computers and then offered to fix the problem for a fee. The FTC filed suit again in 2006 and ordered Wallace in his associates to pay more than $5 million in fees.
Wallace turned to social networks a year later and was sued by MySpace in 2007 for phishing and spamming by creating 11,000 or so profiles that attempted to push users to porn and gambling websites. A judge fined Wallace $230 million after he did not show for a court date in 2008.
Contacted on Google Plus and then on email, Wallace said “I can’t comment on any of this at this exact moment but I will be asking my attorney if I can send out a general comment in the next day or so.”
Wallace’s first post on Google Plus came on July 11, about two weeks after the initial invite only rollout of the service. His first post was “I am allowed to use this service.” Of which, the first comment was “for now lol jkjk.”
Sanford goes by the name DJ MasterWeb and was a disc jockey in Rochester, New Hampshire during the early 2000s. He is also known as “Spamford.”
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Is Spam Declining? Some Encouraging Signs from Spam Fighters
Aug 4th
According to a post on the Spamassassin Tips blog, there’s some evidence that spam is tapering off from earlier in the year. Is spam really down, or is it too soon to get excited?
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The post put up by Warren Togami notes that, by one metric, spam seems to have tapered off from peaks earlier this year in March and February. Togami is looking at a single data point, IPs that are flagged as sending spam by the the Passive Spam Block List (PSBL). The PSBL is an “easy on, easy off” blacklist that receives (in Togami’s words) “millions of spam every day.” It lists offending IP addresses for two weeks, and then drops the IP address if or when it stops spamming.
According to the stats from PSBL, there was a spike in addresses tagged for spamming between February and March of this year, with nearly 1.5 million IP addresses listed at some points. That dropped sharply during the first week of April (perhaps the spammers were busy doing their taxes…) and picked up again in June. However, at least according to PSBL, it’s far below the earlier levels and holding steady at well less than 1 million since April and usually less than 500,000 IPs blocked.
The question is, does this hold true elsewhere? Does it match what other organizations are seeing? Taking a look at Spamcop’s statistics, it looks like it might be. If you look at the stats on Spamcop’s site, you’ll see some spikes earlier this year (after a dropoff in late December and early January) and then a sharp decline spam volume in March. (Note, it’d be great if more blacklists and spam fighting organizations posted public stats.)
But that’s just email spam. There might be a reason why you’re seeing less spam in your inbox, because it’s moving to blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc. While I’ve noticed a bit less spam slipping into my inbox, I’ve noticed no slacking in blog comments or on other sites. So maybe it’s safe to go back to the inbox, but I’m not sure the spammers have packed up and become productive members of society just yet.
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