BBC Investigation Into Spam, Poorly Researched?

Posted by Steve Kinsey on July 4, 2008

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I’ve seen this article starting to do the rounds of the affiliate marketing blogs today and I just couldn’t resist writing something about it. The article in question is a joint BBC / McAfee investigation into email spam, the full story and video can be seen on the BBC website. The problem with it is not the subject matter itself, I mean we all know how much of a problem spam is. I’ve personally had to take so many steps and pay for additional services to stop myself getting bogged down in literally thousands of emails a day.
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This Blog Was Hacked

Posted by Steve Kinsey on July 3, 2008

Last night I discovered that this blog had been hacked. I’ve no idea how they were doing it, but someone was posting a load of links to seriously bad sites in my posts using a hidden bullet list. I’ve no idea how long it was going on, how they did it or most importantly what damage it has done with Google.

I’m just glad I found it and was able to act upon it and now I will be monitoring my blog posts closely to make sure I have nipped this in the bud.

You might be interested to know how I found this out as it was completely by accident. I was reading some web page about someones google rankings dropping and they posted a link to a Bad Neighbourhood tool. This tool basically checks the links on a site to see if any are going off to sites that have a bed reputation with the search engines. So out of pure curiosity I tried it with my blog and was horrified to see all these bad links come up.

If your interested here is a link to the bad neighbourhood tool.