Rap Genius Traffic Tanked After Google Smacked It Down for Spamming

Rap Genius Traffic Tanked After Google Smacked It Down for SpammingQuantcast shows that the number of unique visitors to Rap Genius has dropped 60 percent since Google punished the startup for its questionable SEO scheme. Last year, unique visitors to Rap Genius only dropped about 15 percent from Christmas Eve to Christmas. Rap Genius has not responded to request for comment from Valleywag sent yesterday and today.

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The Future 140: How to Pre-Schedule Your Most Important Tweets

The Future 140: How to Pre-Schedule Your Most Important Tweets

This week, Twitter gave users the ability to draft or schedule tweets using its web interface. Here’s how it works.

    



The Hugest, Most Verbose, and Least Grammatical Cache of Spam Comments, Ever [Spam]

Cory Doctorow, co-editor of BoingBoing, hit the motherload of all spam motherloads this morning, when he woke up to find some nitwit had visited his personal WordPress site and dumped a giant, rambling post of every SEO spam comments in their database. Oops! More »