Microsoft has stood behind their Hotmail product for years. During this time, they’ve tried to develop anti-spam filters to keep users’ inboxes from being flooded with useless email. Two of their anti-spam systems were designed to help ISPs find customers who were spamming inboxes. The two programs are Junk Mail Reporting Program and Smart Network [...]

I am increasingly getting a question from organic search marketers about where the “line” is between sharp SEO tactics and spam. Basically, it’s the SEO equivalent of “how many miles per hour over the speed limit can I go without getting pulled over?” If this sounds like an interesting question to you, I’d like to [...]

Spam sent from service providers’ own networks is a serious issue, according to a new report by Osterman Research and Commtouch.

Anyone who deals with the public sector will have to deal with negative listings about them in the SERPs at some point. The most damaging of these is the “scam” listing. In this post I’ll discuss some tactics you can use to handle them.

Mobile computing is becoming popular enough, that perhaps we should start being aware of spam and malware popping up on these devices. At least that’s the feeling I received when reading about the anti-virus and anti-spam services from SmrtGuard for Blackberry Smartphones.