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Now back in 2005 or so one key way to ‘retain’ link juice to your site or ‘money pages’ was to no follow any external links and in essence sculpt it to the essential pages. However in mid-2009 Google said ‘wait a min, that wont work now, nofollow means = link juice is just wasted’. [...]

Since writing Spam Attack and being surprised by the results (zero spam in over 2 weeks!); Though I did not feel that it was an accurate test. The site was not optimised for spamming! So a new experiment needs to be done; The Setup On this blog I have setup the htaccess tricks (as described [...]

I love testing out theories some which are my own and others which I had read; one of my biggest ‘playgrounds’ for testing was my abandoned humour site. However some of my experiments had a negative effect …. in the fact that it resulted in LOADS  of spammy comments! So the next day (well 30hrs [...]

Since writing A few tricks up my sleeves – htaccess style I have been tweaking away at the htaccess file to prevent the bane of the internet ! (comment spammers!) These are just a few changes I have made to increase security: No link for you! A lot of ‘trackback spiders’ and fake refers hit [...]

I was over at Blackhat way reading this article about cookie stuffing, and I thought to myself, interesting but it is a bit too under hand method for me as it seemed unlike the Entrecard Bot this method may result in me stealing someone else’s commission. Nonetheless I thought how could I improve the method? [...]

Search engines where would we be with out them; well if you can remember the pre-google era your older then me :p With these the mass hub that we call the internet becomes navigable and we find what we want with a lot of ease. Though with the good of this technological must have it [...]

It has been a few months and traffic has been slowly flowing towards the site and with all this good traffic comes the bad. The spammers, the hackers and all miscreants. To battle this I put in some anti-spam measures a few honey traps for scrapers and askimet to get rid of comment spam. Yet [...]