Exponential Growth of Spam Comment Numbers
As my site has drawn more readership lately, it has also drawn a great deal more SPAM comments. These comments are mostly crap, some are funny, but it is annoying too (since I have to at least look at the SPAM list to see if AKISMET has set some genuine comment as a SPAM). The [...]
Legitimate Press Mentions Rule
So this week I had a sudden spike in the number of reads for THE Canadian Financial Blog (basically a quadrupling of my regular readers) for about 2 days, and it took me a while to figure out where the traffic was coming from. Two weeks ago I wrote a piece about Sunday Banking, that [...]
Dueling Plug Ins
Interesting problem has arisen with two of the plug ins I run on my Canadian Personal Finance site. I added the commentluvplug in a while ago, where commenters are invited to include a link to one of their posts on their site. I like this plug in as it is kind of cute, and the [...]
Comments Update
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Comment relish turned out to be a bit of a non-helpful plug in, as it continued to send thank you e-mails to folks it had already thanked, and I actually got a couple of complaints about it, so I have removed it from the Finance Site. I have added Comment Luv to the systems to [...]
How To: Blogspot Entries Cleaned Out
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So after figuring it was long enough wait I have destroyed and recreated both original entries of my Blogs. Originally this site was Not How To Do It on Blogspot and it held pretty much an exact duplicate of a lot of the entries in this site, however, I did the following steps: Log onto the [...]
Spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam and spam
Originally posted on my finance blog after a particularly vulgar weekend that I spent cleaning up hundreds of SPAM comments on my blogspot account. Spam, Spam, Spam….. I don’t like SPAM ! No that is not my breakfast, it is what I am now continually finding as “comments” on this page. I have turned off [...]
