It was not a pretty sight. I watched the look in his face as he was shown a page from his domain that should not have been there. Precisely how it got there, no one knows, but it was clearly placed on his site by search spammers, out to get an advantage for some of [...]

Today’s interview is with Ted Ulle, the Senior Search Analyst for Converseon, and an administrator at Webmaster World (tedster), one of the foremost online forums for organic search optimization. He is a pioneer in search marketing, having entered this emerging field in 1996 on a foundation of twenty years as a turn-around specialist in multi-channel [...]

Yesterday, in the space of 20 minutes, I saw 2 spammy comments on 2 different blogs, which made the commenters look like complete idiots. The first was a blatant sales pitch, where the commenter was clearly trying to advertise his services, disguised as a comment (including his phone number, email address and a request to [...]

After receiving a lot of criticism, over the past few months, regarding the quality of its search content Google has finally decided its time to look into this problem and fix it. Earlier this week Google announced that they realized that the deteriorating quality of search content on its search result page were posing a [...]

How badly do you hate spam? Do you despise it so much that you’d uproot your current living and fight the good fight? No?Well, that’s exactly what Daniel Balsam did. He’s now known in certain circles as the ultimate Anti-Spam Crusader. A super hero to the community, if you will.