While going through my comment spam this morning, I have discovered a new trick the sploggers are using. Until this week, they would scrape the first paragraph and then (usually) link to the original post on my site. It seems they are now choosing a few random sentences to excerpt. One of the sploggers chose […]
Archive of posts filed under the Advertising category.
Jack-O-Lantern User Agent Considered Harmful
While researching some of the spam comments submitted to blog, I ran across the Jack-O-Lantern user agent. Any comments submitted from my blog are run through a unique WordPress comment post script I wrote. The script allows me to track who is spidering my site and storing the comment form URL for later usage. One […]
Advertising Removed From My Site
After last week’s PageRank update, plus because the ads were making the site look very cluttered and busy, I have decided to remove all advertising from PlanetMike.com. I’ve been experimenting with advertising on the site since leaving my full-time webmaster gig in February, 10 months ago. I have used Google Adsense, Adbrite, Project Wonderful, and […]
Contextual Rollover Ads Suck
I’m sure you’ve seen them, those double underlined links from Kontera ContentLink, Vibrant Media, Snap. You rollover the link with your mouse, even accidentally, and you get small pop-up window showing you some advertising. I just found a site who has changed the link to a more regular looking single underline. And the word that […]
Thoughts on the Project Wonderful ad system
I first stumbled across Project Wonderful in December 2006. Project Wonderful is a system that allows ads to be bought and sold as an auction, highest bidder gets the ad, and it changes in real time, so you can have an ad on a site in minutes. It started out as a way for publishers […]
Shelfari.com Spam
The latest attempt to get into people’s webmail accounts is from a group Shelfari. Apparently set up as a service to help your friends learn about new books to read. They do this by getting you to give them your webmail account’s password so they can look to see if any of your friends are […]
Akismet 20,000 spam caught
I just checked my Akismet spam listing, and see that at some point on October 20th, 2007, Akismet tagged the 20,000th spam comment on my blog. Wow, amazing. And that is after tweaking WordPress to use a unique filename to process comments. Most days I get around 2 to 5 spam comments, although my gut […]
TV Sets at the Gaspump
Submitted to BP.com: I just visited the BP gas station nearest my home. Sometime in the past week, they have added TV screens at each pump playing news updates and weather. Ugh! I wont’ be back, despite the convenience of this gas station. There is an Exxon across the road, which is just as convenient; […]
Real World Time to Receive Spam #6
It took 1.49 days to get spam this time from my tagged email address I released on Wednesday. Wow, that’s the quickest yet. This one was advertising a web directory service. By the way, the process I’m going through I’m calling a blogtrap. 815a2aa2e435a70246cf153fbedb9891@planetmike.com
Real World Time to Receive Spam #5
It took 11.08 days to get spam this time from my tagged email address I released earlier last week. I guess the spammers are slipping; although they did send three of the messages at once. This spam was a pharmacy scam. 09137f629215aa18491f15c61529a282@planetmike.com