New Kind of WordPress Comment Spam and How To Tackle It

Comment spams area headache. But they are reality too. We may get irritated but we need to combat it. As the antispam measures get better, spammers evolve too. It is an everlasting fight with no end in the near future.

Lately, I witnessed a type of comment spam that would appear almost like a real comment. But a closer look determines that they are in fact spam.

Look at these sentences

This sentence can be easily mistaken for a genuine comment

Great posts and expecting more updates form you this year.

This was a good try but context was not relevant.

Does people here have a touch on where Stockmarket is ending?

This might appeal to your heart but beware of the garb

Nothing seems to be easier than seeing someone whom you can help but not helping.

Even people would utilize God’s name

I suggest we start giving it a try. Give love to the ones that need it.
God will appreciate it.

This one is too clever

Just like you, I go forever with out reading RSS. My view is, if it’s important at all, It will hit my twitter stream.

I have been extremely careful with comment spams after I burnt my fingers on spamvertising issue. I was forced to close one of my established site as it had been spamvertised by a user. [Read more...]

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Spamvertising User Can Kill Your Website-It Just Did

I was not even aware of the term until it hit me. When it hit, it hit very badly.

On this Saturday and Sunday, all my websites showed “ Website Suspended” page and it instructed the webmaster to contact support.

Anxious, I did and it exploded on my face.

One of my website authorcontent.com had been spamvertised. Because the host has zero tolerance for spam, my account was closed. Therefore all my sites were suspended.

What is spamvertising? [Read more...]

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Optin Forms–Keep Them Smart

Every marketer needs to build and from his list for successful email campaigns. More the subscribers better would be response and profits.

You can ask people to subscribe by either sending mail to a particular email that you have designated in your autoresponder a by filling a optin form. [Read more...]

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Understanding Squeeze Pages

Squeeze pages are landing pages created to solicit opt-in email addresses from prospective subscribers.

That means the pages that are specifically created to receive a customer’s name and email address with his consent. [Read more...]

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Double Opt-in Email Marketing

You cannot send unsolicited emails to anybody. That is morally, ethically and legally wrong. Spamming is the worst thing that can happen to your business.

Therefore you should take utmost precautions not to spam anybody.

But you need to have a list of email addresses where you can send mails related to your product and business. [Read more...]

Popularity: 8% [?]

Email Marketing and SPAM Issues

Email is a good tool to market your product and communicate with your customers.

But email marketing is also abused by people who send unsolicited bulk mail to the users.

This unsolicited mail is called SPAM. [Read more...]

Popularity: 7% [?]

Understanding Email Marketing

Email marketing is form of direct marketing which uses email as means of communicating commercial messages to an audience.

When used the term implies.

  • Sending emails with a purpose of acquiring new customers or covering old customers to buy.
  • Sending email to enhance the relationship of a business company with its current or old customers.
  • It has been estimated that in 2006 alone, the firms in USA spent more than $400 million on email marketing.

Why Email marketing is so popular? [Read more...]

Popularity: 10% [?]

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