One of my other blogs gets a lot of spam comments, I mean a lot. I made a post Friday and cleaned out my spam filter. Today I go in to make a new post and I have over 6K comments. Yes 6 Thousand, and they're all junk!
I don't know what spam list I got made a part of but this stinks. Especially since it takes so long to load all of those comments. Then I usually delete some and the page errors out and I have to start over. Usually only about 1-2 thousand get deleted each go-round. As I type, I've been waiting almost 10 minutes for the comments to load. It doesn't help that I'm using a busy network today so it's going extra slow.
I just wish I could figure out how to make this stop.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Blogging Part 3
This is my last post on this subject. But I just keep thinking of things to make everyone better bloggers.
Write quality content. It's easy to write a post just to get something out there. But when people read it, they think what the heck is that. Believe me, they won't be back. Take time to write quality posts. Use spell-check, it's your friend. If you have to, write posts in advance and save them as drafts. Then publish as necessary.
Post often. Again, don't just post junk but you need to have regular posts. Make a schedule, or decide to post 3 times a week and try to stick to it. People understand that life happens and sometimes you won't be able to make your schedule. But don't make a post one day, the next post a week later, then skip a week or two. If your visitors don't see fresh material at least once or twice a week, they probably won't come back.
Put you email address out there for people to email you with questions. The reason? Some people just don't feel comfortable leaving comments but may have something they want to say. Maybe they feel what they have to say is personal and feel more at ease with email. Help them out. Either put your email address in your sidebar or on your about me page. To help catch spam, get a separate Yahoo or G-Mail account just for blogging.
If anyone has any ideas, leave a comment and help everybody become better bloggers.
Write quality content. It's easy to write a post just to get something out there. But when people read it, they think what the heck is that. Believe me, they won't be back. Take time to write quality posts. Use spell-check, it's your friend. If you have to, write posts in advance and save them as drafts. Then publish as necessary.
Post often. Again, don't just post junk but you need to have regular posts. Make a schedule, or decide to post 3 times a week and try to stick to it. People understand that life happens and sometimes you won't be able to make your schedule. But don't make a post one day, the next post a week later, then skip a week or two. If your visitors don't see fresh material at least once or twice a week, they probably won't come back.
Put you email address out there for people to email you with questions. The reason? Some people just don't feel comfortable leaving comments but may have something they want to say. Maybe they feel what they have to say is personal and feel more at ease with email. Help them out. Either put your email address in your sidebar or on your about me page. To help catch spam, get a separate Yahoo or G-Mail account just for blogging.
If anyone has any ideas, leave a comment and help everybody become better bloggers.
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