Comments on: Facebook Spamming Your Identity To Drive Their Traffic http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/ Emerging Media Strategic Planning, Web Analytics, Change Management Leadership, Business Speaker Sat, 06 Mar 2010 17:35:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Jean Dreesen http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-41414 Jean Dreesen Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:24:14 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-41414 It's even worse than you think. Cancel your facebook account and your inbox will fill up with spam within minutes, and Google will index your facebook page, even is it's not active. It’s even worse than you think. Cancel your facebook account and your inbox will fill up with spam within minutes, and Google will index your facebook page, even is it’s not active.

]]> By: Postcards from the Edgy » Blog Archive » Goodbye to all that http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-35790 Postcards from the Edgy » Blog Archive » Goodbye to all that Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:46:22 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-35790 [...] Ajax and by news of Facebook users’ spamming of all and sundry courtesy of Facebook’s borrowing of their gmail contact [...] [...] Ajax and by news of Facebook users’ spamming of all and sundry courtesy of Facebook’s borrowing of their gmail contact [...]

]]> By: Facebook Spamming Your Identity in Search Results to Drive Their Traffic - Part 2 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-33234 Facebook Spamming Your Identity in Search Results to Drive Their Traffic - Part 2 Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:20:20 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-33234 [...] I wrote about this issue back on May 18th when I removed my public listing. This is not a new feature today as is incorrectly being reported. It is Facebook announcing something that they should have announced back in May when I noticed them doing this. Some bloggers seem to have gotten this part totally wrong. [...] [...] I wrote about this issue back on May 18th when I removed my public listing. This is not a new feature today as is incorrectly being reported. It is Facebook announcing something that they should have announced back in May when I noticed them doing this. Some bloggers seem to have gotten this part totally wrong. [...]

]]> By: Law.com: Myspace and Facebook Privacy Limits Testedin Emotional Distress Suit http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-31577 Law.com: Myspace and Facebook Privacy Limits Testedin Emotional Distress Suit Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:12:41 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-31577 [...] to not index your main profile in search engines and I still have not received a professional response regarding any plans to rectify this serious issue which many users would not even know is an [...] [...] to not index your main profile in search engines and I still have not received a professional response regarding any plans to rectify this serious issue which many users would not even know is an [...]

]]> By: Yusuf http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-30972 Yusuf Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:07:32 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-30972 Same is true for LinkedIn profiles Same is true for LinkedIn profiles

]]> By: michaelzimmer.org » Archives » Facebook Allowing Profiles to be Crawled by Google http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-30679 michaelzimmer.org » Archives » Facebook Allowing Profiles to be Crawled by Google Wed, 30 May 2007 02:08:53 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-30679 [...] Looks like David Dalka originally discovered this a few weeks ago, and demanded a “noindex option for my profile so [...] [...] Looks like David Dalka originally discovered this a few weeks ago, and demanded a “noindex option for my profile so [...]

]]> By: Technology Evangelist http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-30615 Technology Evangelist Sun, 27 May 2007 04:41:06 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-30615 <strong>Facebook Opening Up Profiles to Search Engines...</strong> David Dalka raised an interesting point about Facebook's apparent policy change to open up public profiles for search engine indexing: Facebook Spamming Your Identity To Drive Their Traffic The other day I was highly surprised to learn that my Faceboo... Facebook Opening Up Profiles to Search Engines…

David Dalka raised an interesting point about Facebook’s apparent policy change to open up public profiles for search engine indexing: Facebook Spamming Your Identity To Drive Their Traffic The other day I was highly surprised to learn that my Faceboo…

]]> By: Pete Cashmore http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-30410 Pete Cashmore Mon, 21 May 2007 15:37:38 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-30410 Actually, it's not all that bad - it's been like this at least 6 months, and Google only indexes Facebook pages that are linked to from elsewhere (most commonly, when you post a Facebook badge somewhere like a blog). When not logged in to Facebook, nobody can view that page, and those that are logged in only see a photo and location. I agree that they should have a tick box to keep you out of Google results, since a lot of people don't realize their profiles can be indexed by linking to them. Actually, it’s not all that bad – it’s been like this at least 6 months, and Google only indexes Facebook pages that are linked to from elsewhere (most commonly, when you post a Facebook badge somewhere like a blog). When not logged in to Facebook, nobody can view that page, and those that are logged in only see a photo and location.

I agree that they should have a tick box to keep you out of Google results, since a lot of people don’t realize their profiles can be indexed by linking to them.

]]> By: knox http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/comment-page-1/#comment-30404 knox Mon, 21 May 2007 11:21:18 +0000 http://www.daviddalka.com/createvalue/2007/05/18/facebook-spamming-your-identity-to-drive-their-traffic/#comment-30404 You should Digg it, when you wanne have a emmidiate reaction. You should Digg it, when you wanne have a emmidiate reaction.

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