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OnlyWire’s Sneaky Little Spam Machine


I don’t know how many of you are using OnlyWire. Its a free service which allows a person to post to multiple social bookmarking sites at the same time. It can be handy if for some reason you need to keep multiple bookmarking profiles active. Like most things, “free” comes with a price.
I had been [...]

Yahoo Site Explorer’s Conflicting Data


This week the air has been a buzz with talk about Yahoo Site Explorer. It seems that recent tests have shown that if you are using Site Explorer to view statistics of a site, you will get two separate sets of data depending on you logged in status. People who are logged in as authenticated [...]

Google and Yahoo Penalties via Wikipedia


I was reading an article on the Forbes website covering the Wikipedia session at SMX NY earlier this week and a quote by Jonathan Hochman, a search marketer and volunteer Wikipedia administrator, caught my attention.
Wikipedia keeps a “spammer blacklist” and shares it with several search engines, he says. Domains that appear on the list often [...]