bfwebster on May 2nd, 2008

The good news is that Google has taken me off their badware list (as of May 1st), though it took them over a week to do so (along with multiple review requests and a posting at the Google Webmaster groups). You can see quite clearly the impact of this blog having the label of doom [...]

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bfwebster on April 28th, 2008

j[UPDATED 05/02/08: Google has lifted the designation; more details here.]
Last Monday (4/21), I brought up the SiteMeter statistics page for this blog and noted in passing that the traffic seemed a bit light that morning. I chalked it up to the usual variations in site flow and didn’t think much of it.
But then I happened [...]

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