After installing DoFollow, the blog started getting hit by a peculiar sort of spam comment.
Akismet had always been catching the porn comments, and those submitters didn’t care whether DoFollow was installed or not. The latest spam comments are from someone using a tool called Trackback Submitter. The comments were obviously auto-generated, and included [...]

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I saw that headline, or something similar, while exploring the web today.
The advertisement was for a company that guaranteed you’d be on the first page of Google within 48 hours, for only $5 for 7 days. There were testimonials from customers exclaiming about the service. One gentleman was mystified as to how it [...]

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We all know that backlinks are an integral part of a site’s search engine optimization strategy.
The anchor text used in backlinks is key in obtaining high rankings for given keywords. Look at John Chow’s review scheme for the keyword “make money online”. Through offering backlinks for reviews that used that specific anchor text, [...]

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A few days ago I got a trackback from a site that had copied Tyson’s review of Online Opportunity without providing proper attribution. I’d suggested to Tyson that he use a signature plugin to include a link back to his blog in his RSS feed.
I belatedly realized it’d be a good idea for me [...]

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It’s sad, but it appears as if Google has not changed its algorithm to discount John Chow’s review scheme.
It’s too bad. I rather liked the idea of Google taking some sort of action, based on their distaste of paid and solicited links. It would have kept things interesting, and forced bloggers [...]

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