http://blog.backpage.com The Backpage.com Blog Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:19:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We've had a few complaints over the past few days of users responding to ads, specifically ones in our Adult and Personals sections, and receiving a phishing email from an auto-responder. These emails are written to look like a personal response, but they contain links to external websites (that aren't owned ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/09/latest-phishing-scam/ We all know that CAPTCHA, the challenge-response security feature found on most websites nowadays, is a pain. However, most people also understand that it’s a necessary evil. We here at Backpage use it to thwart evil-doers who use spam to peddle their schemes and bots who would seek to ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/09/%e2%80%9cyour-captcha-offends-me-pay-me-320k%e2%80%9d/ As promised, we're launching more and more new cities for users to post in all the time. As of today (7/31/09), we've expanded even further into parts of Arizona, Canada, California, Florida, Oklahoma, Massachusetts and South Carolina, to name a few. We feel that this will not only serve the ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/07/new-markets-cap-off-great-month/ Thanks to our loyal user base, affiliate beta testing has now concluded and the Backpage Affiliate Program is now live and available to the public! Affiliates earn 10% commission on new users they refer to post on backpage.com. Commissions are paid on upgrades purchased by Users. Upgrades include sponsor ads, ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/07/public-affiliate-sign-up-active-new-cities/ ...and yet still has images of sex acts on his site. On his official craigslist blog, Jim Buckmaster, the CEO of craigslist, continues to post links to adult ads on backpage. His latest post attacks backpage for containing salacious words and images, and goes on to suggest some kind of conspiracy ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/05/craigslist-ceo-lashes-out-at-backpage%e2%80%a6again/ I wanted to quickly address the outages we've been experiencing here and there lately. To put it simply, we've seen a pretty big spike in traffic over the last 2 weeks that we basically weren't 100% prepared for. However, our staff has been working around the clock and we have ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/05/intermittent-site-outages/ We've been pretty busy adding to our infrastructure. We’ve had some growing pains and some of our sponsor inventory is sold out temporarily. We’ve put in place a solution for this and the problem should be solved. Here’s a quick list of some development we plan to release soon. Affiliate sign up: We’ll be releasing a ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/05/updates-on-affiliate-program-auto-repost-new-markets/ Back in October we announced our intention to publicly launch beta testing for the Backpage.com affiliate program wherein users can earn commission payout's for referring users to post on Backpage. On January 1st, 2009 we officially started public tests. Now, nearing the end of February, public testing for the Backpage.com affiliate ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/02/backpagecom-affiliate-program-beta-test-update/ No doubt, times are tough. We'd like to help out any way we can by making it easier for job posters to staff that position they have available now that they gave that overpaid Steve from accounting the axe. Or help the down-on-their-luck find that second job to pay down their mortgage, Van Halen tribute bands (DLR era only -- none of ... http://blog.backpage.com/2009/01/backpagecom_bailout_promo/ Craigslist will start charging for erotic services soon. Backpage.com has been doing this for years.  It is perhaps the best way to reduce the prank postings, illegal postings, and postings by under aged users. Not many solutions for user content generated sites are perfect when it comes to content quality. Craig ... http://blog.backpage.com/2008/11/charging-adult-clients-to-post/