All Posts Tagged With: "Spam"

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BuyBlogComments.com: Blog Comments And Backlinks For Sale

I think it’s a very sad state of affairs when the blogosphere gets to the point where services like BuyBlogComments.com are launched. This new service will for a fee leave ‘relevant’ comments on blogs that are human generated to increase the chances of the site owner not spotting the spam, to try and create [...]

11Jul2007 | Everton | 16 comments | Continued
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Defensio Anti-Spam Plugin - Anyone On The Beta?

Defensio is a new anti-spam plugin for WordPress that claims to be better than Akismet, which is the most commonly used anti-spam WordPress plugin.  Given that I’m not a big fan of Akismet this doesn’t mean a lot to me, but I was wondering if anyone is part of the Defensio beta trial and [...]

29Jun2007 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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What Online Service Or Site Couldn’t You Live Without?

What online service couldn’t you live without? According to ICM, 50% of 25-24 year olds in the UK couldn’t survive without email.  The survey also found tht 41% of teenagers said that they relied on e-mail and 44% of 35 to 44-year-olds said that email was vital.

19Jun2007 | Everton | 10 comments | Continued
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Ten WordPress Plugins I Couldn’t Live Without

It’s been a while since I’ve given details of my favourite WordPress plugins. It’s rare now that I install a new plugin as I’ve tried so many in the past, as it’s not often that a new one appears that I haven’t tried a similar variant of in the past.
At the moment these are [...]

9Jun2007 | Everton | 11 comments | Continued
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AntiLeech Plugin To Stop Splogs - Does It Work?

Ajay wrote yesterday in his weblog tools column about the AntiLeech plugin that stops splogger bots from:
accessing your site. It does this by producing a fake set of content that includes links back to your site and sends it only to them.
Does anyone have any experience of using this plugin that they can share? [...]

25Apr2007 | Everton | 7 comments | Continued
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Top 30 WordPress Plugins

Staska.net have compiled a list of the Top 30 WordPress plugins based upon lists published by other bloggers. I’m only using 8 of the top 30 which I think is surprisingly low, and I was surprised to see that Spam Karma 2 and Comment Quicktags were missing.
What plugins would you have added to the [...]

31Mar2007 | Everton | 10 comments | Continued
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‘Adult’ Spam Hits All-Time Low

I don’t clean out my spam folder so that I can see how quickly how bad the problem has been over the last 30 days. At the moment I have 16568 emails in my spam folder, that’s a whopping 552 a day.
According to a report from Symantec ‘Adult’ spam hit an all-time low in [...]

8Mar2007 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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Do You Moderate Comments?

I just left a comment on a blog and not only did I have to fill in a captcha to leave a comment, but the author also moderates all comments even with the captcha, so who knows when my comment will get listed.
I nearly didn’t bother leaving the comment as I really hate captcha as [...]

8Mar2007 | Everton | 17 comments | Continued
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WordPress Plugins I’m Currently Using

It’s been a while since I posted the plugins that I use on this site. I’ve added a few more this week including the dofollow plugin and the top commentators plugin you can see in my sidebar. If you are using any plugins that you think I should give a try, or are good replacements [...]

6Mar2007 | Everton | 36 comments | Continued
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Guide To Reducing WordPress Trackback Spam And Comment Spam

Over the last 3 months I’ve had to deal with an ever growing spam problem on my WordPress blog. At its worst I was getting over 250 spams a minute, which not only meant I was struggling to process the spam, but my poor old server was struggling under the load. Although Spam [...]

28Feb2007 | Everton | 10 comments | Continued
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