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How NOT to do link requests

by Tom on July 26, 2008

I recently received a link request from a webmaster that was once again a great example of how people get things wrong. He had found one of my sites and thought it would be a “great fit” for his audience. The guy was, for all I know, legit as his name checked out when I googled it and the site he was mentioning in his email seemed genuine. However, why my site on World of Warcraft is a great fit for his Adsense templates site, I fail to see.
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Using reCAPTCHA to protect your site from SPAM

by Tom on March 5, 2008

You’ve probably seen one of these things on the Web before:
reCAPTCHA SPAM protection

reCAPTCHA is a free service to protect your site from SPAM. It works for comment forms on blogs, for CMSs, for email addresses and more.

The coolest thing about reCAPTCHA, though, is that you’re helping to digitize books with every CAPTCHA you solve. Read all about it at reCAPTCHA’s site.

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