Posts Tagged ‘spam’

No NoFollow, NoSnitching

Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
The infamous Google spam czar Matt Cutts has fired another round at honest webmasters just trying to go about their daily work. In a recent blog post, He invited readers to report web sites buying or selling links that are not using the ridiculous nofollow tag on those links. Read: Google wants us to snitch on our colleagues. Turn them in. Rat them out. Become WWW stool pigeons for Google. There is a host of issues surrounding this edict from Google’s pet spam fighter, all of them ugly. (more…)

Missing images

Sunday, January 14th, 2007
For about the umpteenth time, this morning I responded to a question on a newsgroup by some poor soul who didn’t understand why the images weren’t showing up on his web page. The links were correct. The images were uploaded to the correct directory. But when he viewed his page in his browser, the images were just …. not there. As if they had never existed. (more…)

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