How to Make Money Blogging
I am so damn sick and tired of all the comment and trackback spam. It is an on-going battle.
Right now, I have trackbacks disabled and comments must be approved before they are posted — and I hate doing that. I have been using SPAM Poison and it is a nice little program. In fact, I have not had one piece of comment SPAM since installing it!
I need to hire a nerd from the local high-school. A kid to work part-time installing scripts, setting up websites and the like.
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Oh man is this sweeeet or what!
Bad Behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents spambots from accessing your site by analyzing their actual HTTP requests and comparing them to profiles from known spambots. It goes far beyond User-Agent and Referer, however. Bad Behavior is available for several PHP-based software packages, and also can be integrated in seconds into any PHP script.
[URL: Homeland Stupidity -- "Bad Behavior" ]
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The day is coming fast when all the assholes with their automated RSS blogs and Adsense income will be broke.
They just didn’t get it: blogging is about relationships. And the relationship is where the BIG and LONGTERM money is made.
Newsweek’s technology writer Steven Levy is just the newest person to notice the changes and problems…
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Here is a sweet little plug-in that solves many of the problems of trackback spam.
Legitimate Trackbacks are sent by people commenting on your weblog, accompanied by a URL that points to that commentary. Spam Trackbacks are accompanied by a URL that points to a pay-per-click affiliate website or other irrelevant material. The Validator exploits this key difference:
- When a Trackback is received, the plugin retrieves the Web page located at the URL included in the Trackback.
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Well I am fed up!
Especially when I found this comment spam from marketer Sean Felker pimping his “get rich quick blog” on my site…
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I was reading a post in The Warrior Forum from a poor guy getting slammed with comment spam.
What is comment spam?
Comment spam is a series of fake comments created by robots that spider the web looking for blogs. They automatically enter the URLs and keywords of sites that PAY the comment spammers to hump their products. The biggest comment spammer is in Canada.
Is it illegal?
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I know many of the people in the forums have been asking about comment SPAM and how to eliminate it from their blogs. I have been just been banning the IP addresses up until now, however here is a solution for Movable Type bloggers called MT-Blacklist. Thanks to my ex-wife for the link.
All hail the perl gods!
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This spam software for Eudora users got a great review from SitePoint.
I was a loyal Eudora user, but the SPAM was overwhelming, so I switched to PocoMail (4 stars out of 5) for it’s filtering abilities.
[URL: Spamnix - Beta Test ]
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What a dumbass.
I hate SPAM just as much as the next person — but to think that legislators can fix the problem is ludicrous.
A US law will not stop a Nigerian spammer, trying to add 3″ to men all over America.
A senator from NY needs to spend more time on terrorism — and less time grand-standing.
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Japan’s NTT DoCoMo will launch a program that allows regular cellphone users to access to Microsoft and Lotus email, contacts and calender items — so you can read your spam when out of your office or home. =)
Until now you had to have a special device like a Motorola Blackberry pager, a RIM handheld or a handheld device to receive wireless email.
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