Tag Archives: Spam

As a blogger, you owe it to your readers and the performance of your website to delete spam comments. (And don't feel guilty about it!)

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...

Chances are somewhere in the blogosphere, you've encountered "CAPTCHA." Chances are you hate it...like everyone else. So why is it...

Blogger John Scalzi says he's having a problem with a troll and the troll's minions. And in describing the problem,...

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...

In March of 2010, ComputerWorld reported that the organization responsible for registering .ru domains, the top-level domain designated for Russia,...

Recently, a co-worker took a vacation with his girlfriend to Paris. The vacation had two interesting outcomes: the first was...