Some interesting news on the AP wire today. Robert Soloway who is reported to be one of the top ten spammers in the world has been arrested and charged with 35 counts of various computer crimes.  It appears Soloway has been utilizing a vast array of zombie computers( computer infected with malware without their owners knowledge) to send out millions of SPAM messages across the globe.

Perhaps this arrest will help to reduce the amount of spam I receive every day.  Of course if SPAMMING was not profitable thne people like this would not do it. The government has seized 100 of thousand’s of dollars from Soloway’s bank account, so he’s been making money somewhere. Guess SPAM does pay someone.

[tags]SPAM, affiliate marketing, spyware, zombies, malware[/tags]

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Ask.com seems to be moving towards launching contextual ads to compete with Adsense. The initial launch will be limited to only a few websites, but this may open up to more websites in the future. I’m not sure whether it will be auduquately able to compete, but hopefully something will start. Adsense has too much power at the moment on the web. While I love adsense and earn some decent money from the program, a little competition will be good. Yahoo and MSN have been working towards their own contextual programs for a while, but the are still not really off the ground. As it stands now Google just has too much power over a lot of webmasters as a lot of site’s income is derived from Adsense and that alone gives Google a very powerful position in shaping the web.

Google adsense has not really helped the web with the millions of made for adsense sites that have sprung up every where. Lately Google has been attempting to address some of these issues, but it does not really seem to be getting better. There are still MFA sites springing up every day and click fraud is still rampant. Perhaps as more competitors come into this market these types of items will have ot be addressed for Google to continue to compete in the contextual advertising market. We’ll just have to wait and see if Ask.com is successful in their endeavor.

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I’ve been working on increasing subscriber readership the past few weeks so the Copyblogger post today caught my interest. Subliminal message click the orange button and subscribe to this blog’s feed

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