Sorting out vBulletin Spam

Forum, Web Sites, vBulletin

Over the last few months, I’ve been battling spam on a forum I own. Tried everything from captcha, require new users to validate their emails and I still got loads of spam.

I headed over to vBulletin.org to find a good plugin and found this. It uses your Akismet API key to filter certain usergroups posts. Akismet has worked really well on this (Akismet has caught 23,837 spam for me since I first installed it.) and a few other blogs that I own so i thought i’d check it out.

Hopefully this will be the end of spam :)

Web Publisher Isn’t Liable for Defamation

Forum

A californian court has ruled that web publishers and internet providers aren’t responsible for defamatory comments written by others. The court ruled that people claiming they were defamed online could now only seek damages from the original author of the comments - and not the website which re-posted it. Good news for bloggers and forum owners…
Full Story at BBC News

Long List of Resources

Forum, Google Adsense, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Tools, Website Monitoring, YPN

All these sites provide good information regarding; Contextual Advertising, SEO and Affiliate marketing and other related info. I read most of them and have probably missed a lot out. Here we go;

Blogs

Forums

News Sites

Other

  • SEOmoz
  • SEOBook (I’ve read good reviews about the book, it has a good blog too)

If there are anyones you think that you use and I’ve missed out, suggest them in the

Update: Fixed a few urls that linked to the wrong place.
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