Lijit is a popular and well-respected search application for bloggers. Many sites, including this one, use it because it not only drastically improves upon the default WordPress search, but also because it allows searchers to pull content from sites within the blogger’s network, including soci...

A recent post on Mashable regarding a tool called WordPress Direct elicited a great deal of passion on both sides. One commenter, for example, called the service a “one stop shop spam blog engine” while another, who claims to have used the service, said it was “a simple solution to...

SEO Blog Tips, Part 11: Hi there Blokesters. As you know I haven’t been blogging much lately, but believe it or not there’s been a method to my madness. I’ve intentionally been blogging less because I’m running a little experiment (not to mention the benefits to my achy-br...

A “splog” is a spam blog which might scrape or otherwise rip off content from other blogs. There are a myriad of motivations which drive unscrupulous publishers to steal content or create garbage posts: Organic prominence and AdSense revenue are classic spoils for plagiarizing.  Gaining...

The other day I was a victim of Comment Terrorism by a couple of wannabe probloggers. You know the type. Those who blog for money promising fame and fortune to their servile followers. The problem is most of them (if any) rarely deliver on their promises. They also hate me because I blog the t...

When people find out that their content is being copied without permission, how they seek to handle it is often determined, in part, by whether or not the site is a spam blog. Where many might be willing to forgive copying by a novice blogger, especially with the promise of a link back, most are not...

A pair of recent articles, one by Louis Gray and another by possible248 (who co-authors the blog along with, among others, Voyagerfan5761, are regular here) showcased public interest in relavent search terms, namely company names and Linux distributions respectively, using Google Trends. This, in tu...

Fighting spam has proved to be a nearly impossible task. The best and brightest minds of the legal and technical worlds have failed to come up with solutions to stem the flow of junk email, splogs or spam comments. Every new law or technological advancement has just been an escalation in a never-end...

A few weeks back, a reader of this site noticed a spam blogger not only scraping his posts, but backdating the entries before re-posting them. The resulting site made it appear as if all of the scraped entries had appeared well before the original ones, possibly tricking both search engines and huma...

I will be experimenting with partial feeds for the rest of this month. The splogger issues with my content is not yet resolved. I know switching to partial feed is going ass backwards and will inconvenience those who read my blogs on readers, but bear with me while I figure a work around. Copyright ...