Viruses and Scams Categorized Posts

Why is Google Showing No Followed links?

by Scott | May 25, 2007 | Google, SEO, SEO-101, Viruses and Scams

Someone sent me a link to this post, and I found it extremely interesting. According to the article, Google is following and factoring “no followed” links for ranking purposes. Back in November, “no follow” was given the white stamp of approval...

Content’s Been Stolen? Now What?

by Scott | Apr 19, 2007 | General interest, Viruses and Scams

While I’m flattered that someone thinks enough of my content to steal it right off my webpage and post it as their own, I’ve never actually had it happen with my website copy before. It’s happened with the occasional article I’ve written, but...

Don’t Fall for the MSN Worm… (I did)

by Scott | Mar 17, 2007 | General interest, Spyware, Viruses and Scams

I can’t believe I fell for it. One of my MSN Messenger contacts APPARENTLY sent me a chat message, saying this… Surfing the web Ive found this useful tool in http//Get-Messenger.com/?en Just entering your MSN Messenger account you can find out who has...

Copied Your Website – What Can You Do?

by Scott | Jan 25, 2007 | Google, SEO, SEO-101, Social Networking, Spam prevention, Technology News, Viruses and Scams

Today I got notified by a hosting customer that his website had their content and design copied and reposted under another domain name hosted elsewhere. The copied domain is here – www.nim-company.com while the ORIGINAL design and content are here –...

How do you Stop Spam, Viruses and Phishing?

by Scott | Sep 2, 2006 | Computers - How to, Spam prevention, Viruses and Scams

To say “spam is out of control” is not really accurate, so let me give you some figures that will put it in perspective. For my own domain pdxtc.com, August 2006 brought me these numbers… 19,306 total incoming emails (and we only have 9 addresses!)...

Getting Easy .gov Links in a Few Minutes

by Scott | Aug 21, 2006 | SEO, Viruses and Scams

When I saw the title of an SEOmoz blog post in my feedreader, I tried to make it the first story of the day. When I clicked to read it however, the article was gone. Hoping to read the cached copy, I searched on Google, but the text was not found. Still, I was able to...