Whether you read email or have your own web site, everyone hates spam. Toward the middle of the year, I was being overwhelmed by comment spam on my site. Initially it was just one or two, then five or ten – soon they were comng in thick and fast and I couldn’t keep up with … Continue reading Akismet Spam Filtering, The Bringer Of Light
Back toward the start of February, I wrote about the implementation and ramifications of the rel=”nofollow” attribute on user submitted content. Shortly afterward, I was prompted to write the rel=”nofollow” follow up entry as well. The idea back then was that website spam, in particular weblog spam, was rife and we (read: search engines) needed … Continue reading Combating Website Spam
Friday night, while browsing through an old article on my blog I stumbled onto a post that had a strange formatting issue. This isn’t the first time I’ve noticed formatting issues on my blog, back in 2009 I had an issue with strange characters showing up. After investigating that particular problem, it ended up being … Continue reading Hacked
Last week I unexpectedly received an email purporting to be from Suncorp Bank. In the last year or so of banking with Suncorp and using their online banking system countless times, I don’t ever recall receiving an email from them about anything. It doesn’t surprise me that I haven’t received an email from Suncorp before, … Continue reading Suncorp Bank, Looking Out For Clients
In 2005 Google decided they were going to attempt to unsettle the online spam ecosystem by recommending that web sites add an additional attribute to a link from site A to site B if they were not verified to be trustworthy. For instance, if someone left a comment on my site who I didn’t know … Continue reading DoFollow No Longer