Posts Tagged ‘Spam’

Editors note: I’ll give a free EMP book to the first commenter who doesn’t know the reference of this post’s title. (Be honest!)

So, speaking of things that people say, but don’t quite know what they mean, I got this email in my mail box the other day:

We cant find your web site.

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SEOr·gasm (es ee ôrgzm)

The peak of excitement from an SEO’s sudden release of pent up frustration regarding the tactics of other SEOs who’s practices they condemn. Characterized by strong feelings of pleasure often following a blog or forum posts of some kind. Can be accomplished as a solo act but is often found to be more pleasurable in group settings such as online forums or blogs.

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spam (spm)
n. Unsolicited e-mail, often of a commercial nature, sent indiscriminately to multiple mailing lists, individuals, or newsgroups; junk e-mail.

We all hate spam, don’t we? Nothing slows up your morning like having to sort through hundreds of junk emails, just to find the handful that are of a genuine business nature. Thank God for commercially available spam blockers like cloudmark, that will sort through your email as it’s being downloaded and remove all the junk for you. Most web servers also allow you to set your spam settings to one of several levels of strictness and remove or mark email as spam for you. Spam sucks, but life is good when you have a good spam blocker.

There are two things I don’t understand about email spam, 1) why people complain about it when there are a host of spam blockers available for cheap or free? and 2) why some feel the government should get involved in regulating spam when there are a host of spam blockers available for cheap or free? The only real problem I see with spam, other than the minor annoyance of it, is the fact that we don’t have more spam blockers for other things.

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I got a lead through our website the other day with an interesting comment attached. The prospect was requesting specific information on pricing for our services but as you can read below, they simply copied the information from what another SEO provided them.

I am just starting an internet business and I am looking for the following services. Please let me know if these are services you can provide and if so an estimated cost. Thanks

1. Website Analysis to check the current status of your website.
2. Meta analysis and recreation of clients tags and keywords.
3. Link popularity program – Increase the amount of pages that link to you.
4. Automated Submissions to 1090 search engines for site indexing twice a month.
5. Manual Submissions to the search engines that don’t accept automated submissions.
6. Submissions Report on the 1st and 15th of each month showing the progress of the website. “upon request”
7. We build you a Site Map for your website which helps all of your pages to be indexed into the search engines. The site map will also be submitted to 1090 search engines for site indexing twice a month.

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I love blogs and blogging, but with all good things, especially those online, it comes with a whole new host of problems. Search engines love blogs and therefore so do spammers. Spammers love blogs only because blog spamming techniques work, thanks to the search engines and bloggers themselves.

Last year Google introduced the “nofollow” attribute for links. Using this attribute on a link is supposed to inoculate the linking site from any negative association to the site being linked to. It’s to be used when you are not in control of the link being posted (as in blog comments) or when you don’t want your link to a site to be considered as you “vouching” for that site in the eyes of the search engines. I think the most accurate description of the “nofollow” attribute is that it’s a link condom.

The nofollow was merely a band aid fix to one kind of blog spam, but not a solution to the real problem. But since there is not just one kind of blog spam there is no single solution either.

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I don’t have a problem with people emailing me requesting link exchanges so long as they are not automated messages blasted to me and hundreds of others who never visited my site. Usually those can be picked out within half a second of looking at the email and deleted just as quick. But this one here caught my attention:

Subject: Link exchange with your site http://www.searchengineguide.com/degeyter/006390.html

Dear Webmaster,

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I don’t mind being put on somebody’s email list, considering of course that I actually gave them my email address to begin with. But I also would like the opportunity to unsubscribe to that list at my convenience. I don’t want to keep picking on GoDaddy, because I really have no beef with them other than my really really bad hosting experiencewith them several months back.

But today I got a Valentine’s greeting from GoDaddy (how sweet of them) in my mail box. I can use my cloudmark toolbar to mark it as spam, but I know that I signed up with GoDaddy so I’ll do the polite thing and unsubscribe through their own system.

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The Internet is full of all kinds of great information, resources, marketing tips, tools and so on. It can also be a great source to help you put together your web site’s content, as you can find many industry related articles that are free to be republished, usually provided that you attribute the author to the content.

We often distribute articles to various industry news and information sources and find that those articles are republished on many additional sites. This is good as it gets our articles out to a much larger audience, and each contains a link back to our site so the readers know who wrote it and can then find out more about us.

There are, however, some lower forms of content republishing that occurs online, everything from outright theft from your website to republishing pieces from various forms of free content as a means to create search engine rich, but otherwise useless, pages.

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Yahoo and Cisco are developing a new solution to fight email spam.

The partners have pledged to develop a specification combining their respective cryptographic-based security offerings: Yahoo’s DomainKeys and Internet Identified Mail from Cisco.

The new product will be called DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and will be offered royalty-free to the industry.

The goal behind this technology is to be able to trace spam emails back to their origin so they can be shut down.

“The spam problems is so large that no one company can solve it, so it’s good to see major companies like Yahoo and Cisco combine their strengths and make the technology widely available,” said Yankee Group senior analyst Andrew Jaquith.

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