Spam

May 6, 2013

Spamming to Get One More Customer: Brand Degrading

It is not a new approach.  Spam as many people as you possibly can with your marketing plea, and hope that you gain a few new purchases.  Marketers have tried many ways over the years to reach new audiences.  Spamming through emails has become such a common occurrence, but it has also become a major [...]

October 30, 2012

How You Can Recover From a Penguin Update Setback?

Since the day Google’s Penguin Update was rolled out, many webmasters and SEO professionals have experienced damages in their websites. Although the damage experienced wasn’t similar to the magnitude caused by the first algorithm change called the Panda Update, it still caused widespread damage and destruction in a number of websites in its wake. If [...]

January 11, 2012

Signing up for quality email lists

Yes, we’ve all done it.  We read one piece of content from a website that we like and we then think, “this person knows what they are talking about.  They really get it!”  So we sign up for their mailing list and then we really get it.  Mass email after email trying to get us [...]

June 8, 2011

Drupal Customization Drastically Reducing Spambot User Registration

To follow up on a recent post in which we were using ReCaptcha customizations to further prevent spam attacks on our websites, we wanted to include this additional method which will cause spam systems to have real trouble submitting valid forms on your drupal sites. This drupal customization comes based on the details discussed on [...]

June 7, 2011

ReCaptcha Tip: Force Users to Enter Valid Answer on Each Submission

If you are a web developer, there is no doubt you are familiar with the use of the ReCaptcha tool that Google has taken ownership of.  In fact, even most users of the Internet in general will experience the ReCaptcha tool in almost every form they have to fill out now.  Why?  You guessed it, [...]

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