Database Downtime
Apologies to those who were inconvenienced by the database being down today (Sept 22), we resolved the issue shortly after being notified. The automated scripts we use to track and monitor uptime of the site were reporting that all systems were good to go. We have a programmer looking into changing those scripts so that [...]
Nginx bad Gateway error
If you experience a gateway error while trying to access any of the topic pages, please bear with us as this temporary issue is resolved. We had switched over to test out the services at cloudflare.com earlier today – and it seems as though it caused some conflicts. We have switched things back to the [...]
Authors With Fake Addresses Banned
Working on some more clean up of some of the spam that seems to have slipped through the first round editors. A lot of it was submitted by users (abusers really) who create accounts using fake addresses. The good news is, assuming you used a real address, this shouldn’t be a problem. However if you [...]
The Lazy Hazy Summer Update
Things have been cruising right along over here at ArticleSnatch.com – hopefully summer has been treating you as well as it has us. We have a number of projects in the works to expand the offerings of the site Spam removal continues and will be an ongoing project. In general we remove everything that promotes [...]
AdCopy Plugin Caused Blank Posts
Today we discovered that in an update either to a new version of the AdCopy plugin or to a new version of wordpress caused the post pages to be displayed as blank. From our tests the posts would be displayed then flashed over and blank. Yet when you check the source, the whole page would [...]
Out Of Control Voice Broadcasting
While this post may seem a little off topic here, it is worth noting the call volume we receive from recorded messages left by voice broadcasters. Most of these messages come from people promoting home based businesses, mlm, network marketing, cash gifting, or voice broadcasting itself. Many of them simply want you to buy the [...]
Another Plagiarist Banned
We have just removed the accounts of a few more people who have just stolen other people’s articles. So if for some reason you felt that you were allowed to copy someone else’s articles and post them here, then please login and delete the articles from your account. Should we discover them, we will ban [...]
ArticleSnatch.com Best Practices, Tips and Advice
Article Marketing can be a challenging task if you don’t keep a few things in mind while doing it. Remember this is not a race and consistency will pay off more in the long run that burst work (i.e. you would be better to submit one article per day, than 30 no and wait a [...]
Content encoding problems
currently the server is encoding the site incorrectly and thus it is not viewable by your browser, we are working to resolve this quickly. update: we have a temporary fix in place, by disabling the gzip output, things should be working better. Update: – everythng is back up and running
First Plagiarist Removed In 2010
Today we were informed that someone going by the name of Santosh Bhol from an Indian SEO Company, www.kkblr.com (PLEASE DON’T visit it set off my antivirus when I tried) was stealing articles from other authors and using them. I double checked what someone had emailed me and Mr. Bhol had copied pieces of articles [...]
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