Sunday, September 9, 2007

Firefox's Extension for Spam Reporting

Spam reporting is much easier now with Firefox's Spam Report add on. Several sites were found and reported today. It is easy as two clicks. One spam website even offered web promotion and tried to protect their view source but as it was easily uncovered by Firefox Tidy, it revealed a couple of hundred of hidden keywords. Not what I would call website promotion by any means.

An internet search around a few keywords and SEO Metro easily found other sites that had duplicated pages in their sites with just one major keyword change but hundreds of similar pages. These are sites that one would think the owners would know that such tactics are against most if not all search engine's terms of service. Evidently the webmasters consider the risk worth taking or consider that what they are duplicating is not against terms of service. Regardless, the Spam Reporting extension tool on Firefox is definitely worth having as it takes little effort to know report spam sites.

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