Dear “SEO Consulting Services New York” and you too “Starting A Home Business”,
I have an admission to make: I don’t like comment spam. You are comment spammers. Our readers don’t like you. I don’t like you. You’re not welcome here.
Apple’s new iPad has been the target of a black hat SEO campaign which aims to trick users into downloading rouge security software.
Black hat SEOs have managed to get malicious sites ranking for terms like “apple ipad rumor” and “apple tablet” across Google and other search engines. When users visit this site, they are prompted to download some software which can infect their machines.
Web site uptime monitoring service Pingdom has put together a nice list of internet stats for 2009. Most of them are from studies and surveys already floating around the web, but Pingdom adds in some of its own metrics.
I had a lot of fun applying my own fuzzy math to a number of the startling statistics.
If you’re someone who relies greatly on award winners, then you should know about Sunbelt Software’s VIPRE Email Security. It was the latest recipient of the VBSpam Award, given out by Virus Bulletin. They’re an independent testing group which is involved in the betterment of email spam protection. They awarded Sunbelt Software in the January 2010 issue of their online publication.
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No, it’s not the latest fad diet: Marketing Pilgrim. Marketing news, folks. How many of us have stared at the thousands of spam messages and wondered, “Why on earth do they keep sending this crap out? It can’t possibly be effective . . . can it?”
Unfortunately, incredibly, in some industries, the answer is yes. As MediaPost reports, a small study showed that even recipients without weight issues opened and purchased from spam weight loss emails, as published in the Southern Medical Journal this month.