Tag Archives: spam

Google Alerts Trick to Monitor Website Health

Posted on 22.02.2011 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Un petit truc pour être alertée immédiatement si mon site recommence à servir à Google des pages truffées de mots-clés pharmaceutiques: une Alerte Google qui cherche ces mots-clés uniquement sur mon site. Fûté, non?[fr]As you can guess, I’m now a … Continue reading →

Posted in Technical | Tagged google alerts, hacked, monitoring, spam, trick | Leave a comment

On Being Hacked

Posted on 06.02.2011 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Hackée, et voilà, moi qui savais justement pas quoi faire de mon beau dimanche après-midi ensoleillé…[en]I’m currently battling with a hacked WordPress installation. You won’t see anything if you view source, but Google unfortunately sees a whole lot of spam … Continue reading →

Posted in Wordpress | Tagged hacked, pharma, spam, Wordpress | 7 Comments

Identifier commentaires et tweets douteux

Posted on 03.06.2010 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Not sure whether a tweet/comment is legit or spammy? A few tips.[fr]Une chose que je fais et qui ne va pas de soi, je me rends compte, c’est filtrer et identifier le contenu “douteux” dans les commentaires de blogs et … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged blog, commentaires, indésirable, publicité, spam, tweets, twitter | 2 Comments

Les commentaires d’un blog ne sont pas un espace de pub!

Posted on 04.12.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[en]I’m tired of people using blog comments as advertising space (it’s particularly a problem on the ebookers.ch travel blog that I manage). I’ve decided that I was tired of racking my brains to figure out if this or that slightly … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging | Tagged advertising, commentaires, commenting, commercial, filtre, moderation, publicité, spam | 17 Comments

Six Twitter Tools

Posted on 11.10.2009 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Une série d’outils/sites autour de Twitter que vous trouverez peut-être utiles.[en]This is just a small list of links to more or less useful Twitter tools and sites, that you can use (amongst other things) to figure out if this or … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged favstar, foller.me, follow cost, followers, spam, spammers, tweet blocker, twitblock, twitter, when did you join twitter | 2 Comments

Google Groups Pain in the Neck

Posted on 01.05.2008 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Google Groups trouve qu’il n’est pas raisonnable de vouloir ajouter plus d’une dizaine de personnes à la fois à une newsletter nouvellement créée.[en]I’ve used Google Groups to set up a newsletter for Going Solo. Here it is, with added proof … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged customer, customer experience, filter, fixthis, flag, going solo, going solo newsletter, google, google groups, group, groups, mailing-list, mass e-mailing, newsletter, pain in the neck, problem, review, Reviews, spam, Technology, trigger, unhappy, unreasonable, Venting | 16 Comments

Twitter Advertisers and Friend Collectors

Posted on 15.12.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Sur Twitter (voir mon guide si vous êtes perdus!), je laisse en principe qui le désire me “suivre”. Par contre, je bloque sans merci ceux qui n’ont rien capté et qui utilisent Twitter pour envoyer des messages ressemblant à du … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged blocking, following, Social Media and the Web, Social Software, social spam, spam, tweets, twitter | 1 Comment

Arghl! Du spam par SMS! On fait quoi?

Posted on 14.12.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[en]Here’s the way to react if you’re getting “unsollicited” SMS from short numbers in Switzerland: call up your operator to ask who the contact is for the short number you got a message from call up the contact number and … Continue reading →

Posted in Technology | Tagged message, Practical, pub, publicité, sms, spam, suisse, switzerland, texto | Leave a comment

Quechup = spammeurs

Posted on 12.09.2007 by Stephanie Booth

[en]If you get invitations to join Quechup, don’t. They will spam your whole address book without asking you for permission.[fr]Si, comme moi, vous recevez dans votre boîte trois ou quatre invitations provenant de personnes que vous connaissez (bien ou moins … Continue reading →

Posted in Social Media and the Web | Tagged addressbook, Announcements, badpractice, carnetd\\\'adresses, contacts, e-mail, factice, gmail, internet, invitation, marketing, motdepasse, password, quechup, réseausocial, security, Social Software, socialnetworking, spam, spammeur, yahoo | 10 Comments

More Spam?

Posted on 09.09.2006 by Stephanie Booth

[fr]Est-ce quelque chose qui ne va pas depuis la mise à jour de WordPress sur CTTS, ou bien est-ce qu’il y a depuis quelques jours une légère recrudescence de spam de commentaires?[en]I have the impression that since I upgraded, I’ve … Continue reading →

Posted in Stuff that doesn't fit | Tagged badbehavior, comments, increase, moderation, security, spam, Wanted, Weblog Technology | 4 Comments