In addition to running a Web design and development business, I also run numerous “side project/hobby” sites and blogs that appeal to various interests of mine. Without exception they all suffer from copious amounts of spam — and some of it might be coming from you without your knowledge.
This spam is virtually all “link building” spam. This means that — unlike e-mail spam — the intention of the spammer is not to get you to visit the site or …
The blogsphere is abuzz with Google’s recent PageRank recalculations. The “slaps” and “pats” are controversial because big blogs (Problogger.net, Engadget.com, Johnchow.com, and many many more) have seen their PR jump around more than an Asian boy band.
The reason for the heated discussion that has come out of this is that Google is “punishing” sites that sell links, under the idea that such sales of links is designed to give the buyers unearned authority …
