Almost two years ago I had an article up ‘Information Superpower‘ stating how the amount of data held by Google is dangerous, as well as other ad agencies and data miners holding a HUGE amount of information. Behavioural Ad Inner Pitch Contextual ads work by displaying ads according to the content of a site and [...]
What is Parasite Hosting? Parasite hosting is a black hat technique that relies on utilizing a domain’s inherent authority to create a free blog/wiki / forum etc and use it to create in content links. Which as was pointed out in Link Power – How to get the best links are THE links which hold [...]
A few weeks ago I stumbled across some interesting spam; it was generic enough to make me think hmm is this spam or a real comment? so going on the more altruistic side I thought sure i’ll accept it but i’ll edit out the url just in case. The logic being if it was a [...]
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Neverblue Affiliate company appeared online one day promising to revolutionize affiliate marketing. Did it? or did it just damage your site? Neverblue.com Avoid! Recently I was trying to shift some ad space on The Nexus just to see how profitable it could be and one prospective buyer declined, reason McAfee site advisor had ‘red-barred’ The [...]
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With windows 7 Beta now out making its treks XP’s days may be numbered; but for older computers it will most likely stay the viable choice. I myself love XP and have been tweaking it, playing around and customising it for bet performance and security. Below are a number of registry tweaks I use to [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]