How to out-smart form bot spam without using a CAPTCHA – Part II
In an earlier post about foiling form bot spam without using a CAPTCHA, I introduced an idea to validate your forms to not allow any HTML tags in any of the fields. The theory was that spammers’ main motivation for spamming forms was to get links sent. This method...Beware the Google new page “bump”
I don’t know what Google calls it, but I call it the “Google bump”. That is when new pages soar straight to the top of the rankings. The problem is that a week or two later, they sink right back into oblivion. I’ve been studying this effect for a couple of years...How to autoplay play a YouTube video ONLY ONCE by setting a cookie
I found this gem of a code snippet today, courtesy of http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/topic/268961-video-autoplay/ I was building a website out that I wanted to autoplay a YouTube video, but I didn’t want the video to autoplay every single time the viewer hit the home...More CodeIgniter and GoDaddy Hosting Issues
I am working on a client’s site who has a GoDaddy DELUXE Hosting account, and I started having problems that my previous post on “GoDaddy + CodeIgniter Issues” did not resolve (shared hosting account… not deluxe). The solution this time was to use…...New idea for foiling form spam bots
I just read a new, clever way of foiling form spam bots today. The gist of the method is to add a field to the form and enclose it in a DIV tag that is styled via CSS to be off the page (such as setting the margin -10000 or something like that). A human would not...Contact
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