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Dangers of Blog Commenting

Yeah, I agree. Maybe even I wud delete them, who knows? Thankfully I get very few of these commenters anyway. I used to get lots of them when I kept my posts open to comments forever. Now it is very rare.

» Posted By Arindam On September 4, 2010 @ 7:15 pm

Hi Scott,

Yeah, ur first two comments were longer (I think) yet did not get into the spam queue, your third comment was shorter but got in the spam queue (!!), but of course the last comment again did not get into the spam queue. Can you spell w-e-i-r-d?

As a matter of fact, I have retrieved some really good comments (for this post alone) from the spam queue. No wonder I posted this article-I think it is high time to teach every blogger to check their spam queue.

Never mind Akismet, I love all nice comments (including yours) so pls keep them coming.

» Posted By Arindam On September 4, 2010 @ 4:18 pm

>>I always think people should respond instantly on my websites

It is always good to assume just the opposite. Well I am fairly online for a good amount of time, say 10-12 hours at most, so if you comment when I am sleeping then you won't hear from me until I wake up

» Posted By Arindam On September 4, 2010 @ 2:34 pm

Thanks for your kind words Art.

» Posted By Arindam On September 4, 2010 @ 2:28 pm

JohnCG,

I know it is tedious but personally I get a new key for each of my blogs, unless the blog is closed to comments. From what I have heard, the moment your blog(s) start processing more than 10k comments per month, you need to pay Akismet a $5 per month fee or so. So, spreading it out should generally delay the paid upgrade

» Posted By Arindam On September 4, 2010 @ 11:04 am

Hi Paul,

I am still doing my own backlinks. Duh! I would like to outsource soon. Actually I DID outsource to some folks but generally did not like the work much, for a variety of reasons

» Posted By Arindam On September 4, 2010 @ 11:02 am

I have to agree with the last line of what Scott says

"Even when you do find the magic G will steal it away eventually."

» Posted By Arindam On September 3, 2010 @ 9:28 pm

Hi Rob,

6 months with Brute force means quite a lot of money I guess.

Anyway, since when could SEO be fully automated with software? Best thing is to outsource SEO to an honest firm if you don't want to do it yourself, but investing in SEO tools (apart from link checkers and keyword tools) is a waste of money IMO.

One of my commenters has a good review on Brute force you may want to read:
http://www.ademartin.com/online-biz-and-views/is-peter-drews-bruteforce-seo-a-scam-comparison-senuke-review/

» Posted By Arindam On September 3, 2010 @ 9:03 pm

@Brenda

>>What are your thoughts about backlink subscriptions? It seems to me that if they are using the same links for everybody, that could ultimately be considered spam as well.

Exactly what you said.

I would say the backlink packets are great for newbies who are struggling with seo, but when you get a strong foothold in SEO, you should find your own backlinks.

» Posted By Arindam On September 3, 2010 @ 8:57 pm

Hi Alec,

I don't favor captchas that much: I think they hurt more (by driving away good commenters) than help (the hardcore spammers would do anything to post a "spammy" comment). I mainly use captchas in contact forms. Regarding WP spam free, you may want to note that it is now no longer supported (at least last time I checked). I posted an update here:

http://arindamchakraborty.com/huge-list-of-cool-wordpress-plugins-part-1#SpamControlPlugin

On another note, just a fyi, Akismet put your comment in spam queue, not sure if it is because of the comment length or not.

» Posted By Arindam On September 3, 2010 @ 7:17 pm

Thanks for dropping by Mark. I missed ya quite a lot!

"also the comment was 700 words "

Just to point out to everyone (Mark already knows it), sometimes Akismet even filters long comments as spam, even if the commenter is a regular one. It used to happen quite often with Mark, and I am glad that this time Akismet made an exception and put his comment in moderation queue instead of spam queue

» Posted By Arindam On September 3, 2010 @ 5:54 pm

Optimizing Your Wordpress Blog

Hi Emma,

Have you used that option with the Google analytics code? IMO Google Analytics is one of the main reasons behind a slow loading page (their old urchin code was really better in that respect)

» Posted By Arindam On September 1, 2010 @ 8:53 am

Hi Ade,

Thanks for the Digg.

» Posted By Arindam On September 1, 2010 @ 3:52 am

3 Steps to Managing Multiple Domains With Wordpress!

>>Is there any way to keep visitors to the new site from ever seeing the address of the original site?

AFAIK, probably not, coz the core files would all be loading from the main install anwyay, that is, the domain on which u have originally installed mu, but you can try using the following options:

Remote Login=>CHECKED

Redirect administration pages to site's original domain=>UNCHECKED

See if that helps.

» Posted By Arindam On September 1, 2010 @ 3:43 pm

>>Is there an advantage to doing a network with them?

Well the advantage is that u can manage multiple blogs (they can be installed either in subfolders, subdomains or domains) from within a single blog. Imagine managing 100 individual blogs, their themes, plugins, etc, and compare that with managing all those 100 blogs from within a single blog. The advantage is basically "centralization" and "time saving". Of course the "centralization" is only partial as you would still need to go into each individual blog to write posts for that blog, as I indicated in this article. If you have no issue doing what u r already doing then why try to fix anything that isn't broken yet?

My 2 cents anyway.

» Posted By Arindam On August 15, 2010 @ 6:07 am

>>Can you point me to some network information

Sorry I did not quite get you. Does your question relate to wordpress or backlinks?

» Posted By Arindam On August 15, 2010 @ 4:30 am

>>do subdomains rank better than subfolders. Does that clear the mud a bit ?

With backlinks u can make anything rank.

» Posted By Arindam On August 15, 2010 @ 4:21 am

>> I can park my Sub-domains and they act just like domains.

NO u cannot. U can park domains, NOT sub-domains.

Hmm, maybe u can do a bit better by reading the definitions LOL:

http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/11_24/CpanelDocs/CpanelDomains

On another note this article is about managing multiple top-level DOMAINS with wordpress. If you want to create just sub-domains then that is rather easier:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

» Posted By Arindam On August 15, 2010 @ 3:54 am

@Justin,

>> If this works on sub domains did I read right it will not work on add-on domains?

It WILL work on addon domains and that IS exactly what this article discusses! You just need to "park" the domains u want to add (instead of adding them as "add-on" domains) as I mentioned in this article.

>>and do you have to MU and what does MU stand for? Multi Use?

The current WordPress is MU anyway. This article is for wp 3.0.1. If u don't want to use MU, u can go back to wp 2.9.2

>>How do you monetize it with Adsense? or can you?

Use advertising manager plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager/

>> Is there a difference in the way the search engines look at a site rating in sub domains and add-on domains?

Add-on domains are same as domains; the only difference is the way you add them to ur server, otherwise they function just the same. For example: nuttiecontent.com is a domain, but fatlossplr.com is an addon domain. Sub-domains r basically assistants of the domains

I have a couple of seo articles on this (maybe that is the question u wanted to ask):

http://arindamchakraborty.com/search-engine-optimization-demystified-part-1
http://arindamchakraborty.com/google-treats-sub-domains-differently-here-is-how

>>I put one addon up about a week ago (the one above) and it is indexed but no where to be found up to first 500 showings and that is with extensive pinging and social posting and even some articles floating round out there that rate well on searches.

Backlinks my friend, build 500 backlinks (kidding, but u need backlinks for getting ranked high in SEs, anyway)

U can choose not to do pinging, u can choose not to do rss directory submissions, u can choose not to do any article marketing...

But backlinks r a MUST! And QUALITY backlinks at that!

» Posted By Arindam On August 13, 2010 @ 5:59 am

Hi Emma,

Welcome back (after a long time??).

>>Please don’t keep referring to your posts as ‘boring’ – they’re not, and a little positive thinking goes a long way

Actually a friend and regular reader privately told me she was bored only this time coz she did not understand what I am saying here. I guess it must be way too technical for her!

» Posted By Arindam On August 10, 2010 @ 4:14 pm

Use Adsense Whitelist or Get Banned!

>>I would simply be telling Google that if my account appeared anywhere else, don't give me credit because they would have to be stealing my account number. Is that correct?

If ads containing your adsense ID appear on domains that are NOT on your whitelist, Google would display the ads as usual but impressions/clicks won't be counted. Google would also show u a list of domains where ur ads are appearing but which are NOT on your whitelist. U decide what to do with that data.

Is everything clear now?

» Posted By Arindam On August 7, 2010 @ 2:11 am

>>If I did that I would lose possibly 90% of my Adsense revenue?

How? Do u have ads on sites you don't own? If so then the whitelist may not be for you, as I already mentioned.

» Posted By Arindam On August 7, 2010 @ 12:46 am

How to Unfollow Those Who Don't Follow You Back on Twitter!

Thanks John. Appreciate the update!

» Posted By Arindam On August 4, 2010 @ 8:37 pm

Google Treats Sub-Domains Differently-Here Is How

>>Just wondering about point 3 in your post, if you linked your sub-domains from your main domain wouldn’t link juice get passed from the main domain to the subs, thereby boosting their ranking?

I do that and that certainly helps with rankings a bit, although I have not noticed any boost in the PR of my sub-domains just by doing this, so I am not sure about the "pr juice" thing. However, the rankings the sub-domains got as a result of this "interlinking" were not enough because most of them were based around competitive niches so I needed more traffic. If your niche has little competition then interlinking might be enough, assuming of course your main domain is old, has a good PR and a solid backlink structure.

As for GA/Webmaster tools, it CAN become a paid service anytime. I never believe that "free will always be free"; that seldom happens. However, if I feel that the rate charged by GA is worth it, I would stay on, else I would quit. E.g., I am a paid subscriber of statcounter and feel the $10 I pay them every month is worth the extras they offer.

» Posted By Arindam On July 22, 2010 @ 9:09 am

@Nan,

You can learn more about redirects here:
http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

The solution of redirect is for "similar" or "related" sites only. If the two sites are not on similar niches then in that case probably a new domain is your best choice

» Posted By Arindam On July 16, 2010 @ 7:41 pm

@Nan,

If it is not wordpress, you can 301 redirect through your hosting control panel (such as cpanel=>Redirects) or by editing your site's .htaccess file.

» Posted By Arindam On July 15, 2010 @ 7:09 pm

@Nan

Your plan might work

But an easier approach is, if you use WordPress, is to use the Redirection plugin:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection/

You simply 301 redirect all the files of your old site to those of the new site. Easy, and those who visit the old URLS would be automatically redirected to the new ones. Plus, you won't lose your rankings either!

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=93633

» Posted By Arindam On July 15, 2010 @ 6:44 pm

@Randy

I can tell you what I do. For the record I have tried a heck lot of sitemap plugins and almost all of them had one bug or other. So here is a simpler tool you can use (this works for both WordPress and non-WordPress sites):

http://gsitecrawler.com/en/download/

Just use the "New site wizard" to add your site, then use the "filters: to exclude any URLS you don't want the crawler to crawl and index (it would automatically import your site's robots.txt file, so if any URL is excluded in robots.txt then no need to exclude it again here), and you are done. The tool would generate a group of files among which you need to upload the following:

The sitemap.xml file (For Google)
The sitenap.xml.gz file (For Google)
The urllist.txt file (For Yahoo)
The urllist.txt.gz file (For Yahoo)
And the gss.xsl file (the style sheet of the sitemap.xml file)

I don't even submit to Yahoo, but keep the urllist files on my server anyways; if Yahoo or others want to crawl my site and are able to locate the file...

Hope my solution helps

An alternative (if you don't want to install softwares) is http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. It works okay but the limitation is that the free version can index only 500 pages of a site.

One crucial thing: make sure that the URL in your sitemap is same as the one you submit in Google webmaster tools. See answer to question no.4:
http://arindamchakraborty.com/4-search-engine-optimization-questions-answered

» Posted By Arindam On July 10, 2010 @ 1:10 pm

@Rob,

Big and boring It is a very old article, but hopefully you would still find it useful.

» Posted By Arindam On July 9, 2010 @ 7:40 pm

Hi Rob, you are absolutely right! The money-saving benefit about sub-domains is something I had covered in an earlier article:
http://arindamchakraborty.com/search-engine-optimization-demystified-part-1

I did not know about the second benefit, though

» Posted By Arindam On July 9, 2010 @ 7:32 pm