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If you allow comments on your blog, be sure you keep an eye out for comment link spam. It can cause your site SEO problems.

If there's one kind of spam I receive as a blogger as often as guest post queries, it would have to be link insertion requests.

Spam is a nearly unavoidable part of social media. But Instagram spam is a breed all its own...so why can't the platform stop it?

When you run a blog, sooner or later you'll start seeing an occasional business pitch in your inbox. I can rule most out as bogus right away.

When you run a website for a while, you'll surely receive an unsolicited website design proposal. But some 'cold call' emails miss the mark.

Instagram Messages are rapidly becoming an aggravation for a number of users because most of the time, they seem to be nothing more than spam.

I received an email from none other than Mark Zuckerberg the other day offering me a 'secret' jackpot...out of the goodness of his heart.

Every week, it seems, there's a new infographic solicitation in my inbox, and I've reached the point of just deleting them without responding.

Seeing less unwanted email these days? The amount of spam has dropped below half of total emails. I wish there was some magic technology to kill spam once and for all. But it seems that something seems to be working: ITPortal.com points to a Symantic report stating the rate of...

Chances are somewhere in the blogosphere, you've encountered “CAPTCHA.” Chances are you hate it...like everyone else. So why is it still everywhere? I hope that the team of people who invented those squiggly little words designed to make sure someone who was trying to leave a comment or access a...

Blogger John Scalzi says he’s having a problem with a troll and the troll’s minions. And in describing the problem, he suggested a familiar solution: “Don’t feed the trolls.” John is actually taking a pro-active approach, removing the comments from people he says are just there to cause trouble. But...

Did the headline make you do a double take? Yes, the guy who tells bloggers that they should “give a damn” about writing is actually happy that some people <i>don’t</i>. But don’t let your grammar guard down too quickly.

I’m on Twitter. I’ve come to embrace it, although I like Google+ and Facebook more. But on a slow day on the blogging side of things, Twitter posts can help you generate blog ideas. That alone might make it worth the price of admission. On Twitter, you build a following...

In March of 2010, ComputerWorld reported that the organization responsible for registering .ru domains, the top-level domain designated for Russia, was planning a crackdown on fraud and inappropriate registrations. The problem they were seeing involved spammers registering fake sites under the .ru domain so that they could launch spam attacks...

Recently, a co-worker took a vacation with his girlfriend to Paris. The vacation had two interesting outcomes: the first was that during the trip, the girlfriend's title officially switched to fiancé. The seconds, was far less pleasant: a hacker got into his Facebook account and managed to send desperate requests...

A lot of people like to be able to comment on a blog and see their comment appear immediately.  It leads to a faster sense of conversation, and it also avoids the often-misguided belief among readers that a blog owner might only allow comments from people who agree with the...