Preventing Virtual Blight

Originally delivered at the Web 2.0 Summit 2008 in San Francisco, Matt's "Preventing Blight" presentation offers tips for preventing abuse of web services. Site owners can protect their services by thinking like a spammer, implementing hurdles for abusers, and utilizing the power of community.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Google
• Webmaster
• virtual
• blight

[glasnt]

Oh, and seriously, don't go to that mentioned site. Its illegal in most of the world.

[Shadow14l]

Because they would need staff to do it, in which they would have to pay. I'd rather pay a few people to make an automatic service, than to pay tens of thousands of people to moderate a site. Also you'd need people in charge of those, and it'd get too complex and expensive.

[JustinNeverSayNever7]

Virtual Blight, I don't like that.

[nattsurfaren]

Listening to this video I understand the problem but there is another side to this. The effect of stopping/making things harder for spammers also affect persons with a low budget to make a living on internet. The direction this takes is that everything will cost more money and you will get less results from the money you spend. The level of success will rise very high because methods that worked before but doesn't work now will still be found in articles and videos.That goes for new stuff also.

[charliemcbride1]

Web Services on the web are increasing every day as technology grows. If you or someone you know are going to start a web service this video should be watched.

Matt Cutts discusses in detail the important attribute of website attackers and how to prevent it. Thank you Matt Cutts. From Charlie McBride Website Service Solutions

[ahazy07]

@yungbludsolja yea where u from?

[yungbludsolja]

@ahazy07 haha westbrook highschool?

[stubbornVN]

Could Google get an "am I spamming" button for its searches to rethink marketing strategy?

[ahazy07]

problight

[AbartsWorld]

Wow, you know alot about spammers.

[craftpals]

Thanks very much Matt!