The steps Blogger has taken to combat blog spam has made life incredibly difficult for those of us who may want to get off blogspot, but aren’t spamming. And simultaneously, it’s not difficult for the spammers to still accomplish their goals…

Despite a recent article on SearchEngineLand.com, there’s a lot to be said for having dates in your URLs.

Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of spam get through on my Yahoo! e-mail account. Now I see what their tactic is… They want you to pay $20/yr for spam protction…

That just doesn’t set well with me. I mean, if you have good spam protection, why not give it to all your customers? If Yahoo! [...]

Someone at cow.pasture.com is attacking our server, but chances are the person doesn’t even know - the server is just hosting someone’s personal photo album.

One of the rules in search engine optimization is to use permanent redirects to guide search engines from old URLs to new URLs, but Ask.com doesn’t observe them - or more precisely their implementation of them is completely wacked.