Unfortunately, spammers have now started to use comments as a way to spam. How do you know what a spam comment is? Well, a spam comment is a comment that only advertises another site or product. If the comment seems bland/generic with a cheap link thrown in, then it’s definitely a spam comment.

Here is an example of a typical spam comment:

“Hey, this site is really cool. Check out my really cool site at spamsite.com.”

Of course not all spam comments will be this blatant, but you get the point.

Fortunately for bloggers, as spam comments have grown, so has the ways to prevent it. Here are a couple ways that you can prevent spam comments from even being posted on your blog.

#1: Close off commenting on older blog posts

There are options for you to stop comments from being posted on any particular blog post. Lots of times, spammers will post comments in weeks or months old posts. So take away this opportunity from them to keep it from happening. Most blog hosters now offer this as a standard option in the tool panel. If one of your posts has been up for a couple weeks, close it up.

#2: Take advantage of software offered to prevent comment spam

If you host your own blog using WordPress, you can use an option in that software to prevent spam. Even if you aren’t using WordPress, you can still use other Spam comment blocking software like Spam Karma, Akismet, and Bad Behavior. While these aren’t 100% effective, they have proven to be quite effective in preventing spam from happening.

#3: Take a look at your settings and see what can be tweaked to toughen your protection

Lots of blogs now have settings to help prevent spam. If you already have a spam blocker on in your blog and are still experiencing spam, take a closer look at the settings to see if there’s anything that can be tweaked to make your protection stronger. However, if you do this, you should closely monitor your posts to make sure legit comments aren’t being blocked out. If they are, you might have to lighten up a bit.

#4: Regularly read your blog comments

Be sure to keep an eye on your comments. Even the best software or setting can’t prevent everything, so you will have to occasionally manually remove comments on your own.

By applying the above principles, you can ensure that your blog is full of only good, quality comments, which will help your credibility tremendously.

Comments are a great form of communication between yourself and your readers. They help the credibility of your blog!

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When blogs first came around, they were simply online journals. No one could post comments on a blog posting. That all changed in 1998 with OpenDiary, a site which allowed people to comment on blog postings. Now every blog, whether it is remotely or self-hosted, includes this option to comment.

Commenting is great because it allows real people to tell you what they think about your form. It gives you feedback on what you are doing right and what you may need to improve. Comments can be encouraging to you and motivate you to post more quality blog messages. Or they can be constructive criticism to make you work harder to get better at writing content.

Whatever the style of comment is, it is still very useful to your blog. High numbers of comments have the ability to make a blog look credible because they show that the blog is being read by a lot of people. That’s something that every blog owner wants, and comments help to let them know just how many people enjoy their content.

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Blogs are now more than ever a very popular and important part of the internet. Millions of people blog every day. As blogs have evolved over the years, so has the commenting system.

Now anyone can make comments on a particular blog posting. As blog commenting has grown more popular, so has spam commenting. In the next blog, we’ll go over why comments are a great form of feedback for your blog, how they help the credibility of your content, what spam comments are and how to prevent them from happening.

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Like regular web pages, having a good keyword density on a blog is a terrific way of getting search engine spiders to notice your page. (FYI: Search engine spiders are programs from search engines that browse sites and report back their findings to the search engine database, which then lists that site. The more keywords on your site, the more likely it is for a search engine spider to pay a visit)

If your average blog posting is around 200 words, try to use 2-6 keywords per blog post. 2-6 keywords in a blog posting of 200 words is a keyword density of between 1 and 3 percent, a respectable number. Remember that you don’t want to use too many keywords, as that will make your blog look bad. Also be sure that the keywords used are relevant to your blog. Before even making a blog posting, decide what the post will be about and then select a keyword or two to use in your post. Then do it. It’s a surefire way of getting more traffic to your site!

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Ebay CEO Meg Whitman announced today that she has plans of stepping down from the helm of the company. She felt that her tenor of 10 years at the company has been a good amount of time to serve as the pilot of the Ebay company. The current head of eBay Marketplaces, John Donahoe, will be her successor. Meg will remain on eBay’s Board of Directors.

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The act of pinging can help out you and your blogs that you have posted on your website. Do you understand what pinging is ? Do you understand what it can do for you ? Well, pinging basically tells other people out there on the web that you have just posted a new blog. It is the process of telling tracking services that a site has been updated.

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We have free podcasts, free newsletters, free television, radio, music etc.  As you can imagine I could go on and on with all the different products available on the internet that are free.  Is this the increasingly growing trend of our ever changing economy, especially online?

Making computers affordable and programs on the computer very easy for everyone to use, you will get more into the hands of more people.  This creates a wonderful vehicle for free distribution of products which in turn helps with advertisements and sales reach an increasingly amount of people.

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Would you like to figure out what you can do to help a marketing business that’s in a slump? There are many different things that can be looked at and optimized. These different ideas are what could be the direction that you have been looking for in terms of some kind of hope for the future.

One of the first things you should do is some in depth research of your business. This type of research will provide you with facts to look at, so that you can compare your performance to others. The second thing you should look at is your successful competitors. You should try to find out what your competition is ranking for in the search engines. You should also attempt to find out what the customers all have in common and focus in on their annual income earnings as a way to help focus in on who you should be accepting.

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The idea of listening to a podcast to educate oneself about the internet marketing world and what it can to offer, has a very nice ring to it. The great thing about this idea, is that you can listen to many different types of internet marketing gurus talk about many different tactics  and ideas of the past, present and future.  This is a very advantageous resource that can be used by many to become successful.

You can fill in many gaps of your day by obtaining a device that can play a podcast for you.  This technique makes it possible to fill your brain up to the top with internet marketing knowledge as you wait for appointments.  You can listen and become motivated as your working out at your favorite gym or fitness center.  Even if your taking a nice long walk around a lake or through the woods, it can be a great way to take your time on this earth and make better use of it.

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If you are a non-profit organization looking for a high tech, new age way of advertising to the masses, there just might be a way to make that happen on the world wide web.

Google Grants is said to be a wonderful program to use if you fit the criteria for this opportunity to help others. This program was designed for 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Google Grants has awarded Adwords to many different organizations of various topics of charity.

This Adwords program can be another great way to achieve greater awareness to the many people on this earth. It is worth considering what great things can be accomplished with a little bit of research and qualifications put in place.

You can find out more here.

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