Purveyors of malware and BlackHat SEO’s have been pulling in a great deal of headlines lately. It seems anytime something makes the news, there is a report of illegitimate web sites targeting keywords associated with the story to draw visitors…

In a recent post I commented on how I believe that Kapersky Labs is wrong when they claim that the amount of fake anti-virus software will decline in the upcoming year. Malicious hackers show no signs of leaving behind the BlackHat…

In theory, URL shorteners make perfect sense in the world of the 140 character status update popularized by Twitter and used heavily by other social networks. It is commonly accepted that shorter headlines and copy tend to have greater pull…

According to the researchers at Kapersky Lab, the scope of threats computer users will face in the new year seem to be shifting from web applications to file sharing and peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Of course, some of the newer trends…

There have been lots and lots of posts around about the FTC shutting down known spam-botnet- child-pornography-hosting provider Triple Fiber Network (3FN.net), (aka Pricewert LLC, APS Telecom, APX Telecom) yesterday affecting 15,000 websites. The FTC said they were actually advertising…

I had the pleasure of listening in to yesterday’s roundtable hosted by Brian and Carolyn of ShareASale.  The topic of the round table was affiliates’ use of downloadable toolbars and what was acceptable to operate within the ShareASale network and…

Now that Google Affiliate Network (GAN) is a reality, affiliate marketing has finally received some mainstream credibility that it has always struggled for. After all, when Google puts their name behind something (in this case, Performics), online marketers pay attention.

Mind…

This concept is in my head for far beyond 2 1/2 years and I admit to myself that I am not going to do anything with it myself anytime soon. I outlined the general idea to several companies and people,…

It is already 14 days ago since it happened, but I think that it is noteworthy. I would also like to know, if anybody noticed anything different since it happened.

MSNB reported on May 31, 2007: “One of world’s top 10…

Affiliate marketing… of course. Today: The dark side of SEO. Black-Hat Blog Trackback Spamming to be precise.
Trackback spam is annoying as comment or email spam, any spam actually and the worst spam is the exact same junk over and over…