And I thought I was having a bad week, net-wise.
Google accidentally deletes own blog as spam
Not surprisingly, the news comes from Yahoo. Let’s all join them in pointing, laughing and enjoying a sense of momentary superiority!

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Yesterday was a nightmare.
Most of my blogs were working just fine. This one and B-2 worked fine for users - the problem was I couldn’t log into the Wordpress admin at all (strangely, the subdomain blogs on B-2 would still let me log in). I did lots of things to try to fix it, from [...]

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ETA: the “second method” I mention for blocking referral spammers may have caused my site some problems. Read about it here.
The second method I outlined for blocking referral spammers from your site seems to be working perfectly. No need to block IPs that might be spoofed or have decent visitors to send. Just a simple [...]

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I’m not a big fan of blocking IPs from my sites, but when you get hundreds of referral spams from a handful of sites, all with very similar IPs, and all strictly containing domains that look suspicious, I resort to IP Deny.
I’m currently getting a ton of poker and gambling referral spams to B-2 Bomber [...]

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I’ve been saying for ages that Alexa is fairly useless. In some cases, it provides some idea how you’re doing within a niche, but you can’t even trust that.
Currently, all of my sites - every single one of them - is slowly falling in Alexa rankings. Almost all of my sites are continuing their [...]

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This site is now the Number 2 result on Google for the search phrase "Get Rich Online". This has brought me five - count ‘em - five whole visitors!
It’s not a phrase I ever tried to rank for, but this is interesting. I’ve never ever gotten searches for that phrase before, despite the site’s description [...]

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While Google goes gaga over no-follow and paid links, Yahoo is implementing a tool that sounds much more simple and effective to me. It’s the "robots-nocontent" class tag, which I’m currently trying out on two of my sites. I plugged it into my sidebars.
Does anyone have any ideas what I should make a note of, [...]

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It’s been talked about for a while, but this morning on my local business news they made it sound like Microsoft buying Yahoo is a sure thing - and in response, Yahoo’s stocks have shot up 18%.
I realize this is a simplistic view, but I hope it happens because this could possibly give Google some [...]

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At least once a year, Google announces that what used to be fine is now evil, and they’ll use their magic powers to determine if you’re doing something or not, and penalize you. This time, it’s paid links.
I can’t find it now, but I know just a few weeks ago they said paid links would [...]

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Thanks to AdSense being included on at least every site on the internet, including lots and lots of crap spam sites and say the same stuff as each other and frequently show up as results 1, 2 and 3 in the SERPs, human beings have evolved a new brain filter that causes them to ignore [...]

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