AdCopy Plugin Caused Blank Posts
Today we discovered that in an update either to a new version of the AdCopy plugin or to a new version of wordpress caused the post pages to be displayed as blank. From our tests the posts would be displayed then flashed over and blank. Yet when you check the source, the whole page would [...]
Out Of Control Voice Broadcasting
While this post may seem a little off topic here, it is worth noting the call volume we receive from recorded messages left by voice broadcasters. Most of these messages come from people promoting home based businesses, mlm, network marketing, cash gifting, or voice broadcasting itself. Many of them simply want you to buy the [...]
Another Plagiarist Banned
We have just removed the accounts of a few more people who have just stolen other people’s articles. So if for some reason you felt that you were allowed to copy someone else’s articles and post them here, then please login and delete the articles from your account. Should we discover them, we will ban [...]
ArticleSnatch.com Best Practices, Tips and Advice
Article Marketing can be a challenging task if you don’t keep a few things in mind while doing it. Remember this is not a race and consistency will pay off more in the long run that burst work (i.e. you would be better to submit one article per day, than 30 no and wait a [...]
Content encoding problems
currently the server is encoding the site incorrectly and thus it is not viewable by your browser, we are working to resolve this quickly. update: we have a temporary fix in place, by disabling the gzip output, things should be working better. Update: – everythng is back up and running
First Plagiarist Removed In 2010
Today we were informed that someone going by the name of Santosh Bhol from an Indian SEO Company, www.kkblr.com (PLEASE DON’T visit it set off my antivirus when I tried) was stealing articles from other authors and using them. I double checked what someone had emailed me and Mr. Bhol had copied pieces of articles [...]
Merry Christmas and Site Hackers
First Merry Christmas everyone, sure Christmas is December 25th, but that was yesterday, so I’m a tad late. I hope you had a safe and happy holiday. Just got done fixing the site after some hacker at 5:33 EST from an ip address of 211.72.36.100 decided to hack our site and insert a random redirect [...]
Monday Updates Dec 14
Its been a pretty busy weekend, we have been reviewing authors to get the nofollow removed, if you would like us to review your account send us an email, most who email us have accounts reviewed within a business day hour. So far we have reviewed authors who have contributed 74000 total articles (UPDATE 12/14 [...]
More Progress Being Made
For those who have been keeping track, it has been a longer than we originally hoped to get the author review process in place to remove the nofollow from your links (Read about the nofollow and other changes here). Thanks in part due to a call from a distressed author, we got the programmer kicked [...]
Comment Spam
By ArticleSnatch on December 17, 2009
We have a comment policy on this blog, it is linked from every page as well as by the comment form, yet we continue to get “people” who leave comments using a keyword instead of their name. Even though the comment form very clearly says to use your Name. Well we have stopped reading these [...]
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