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What a pathetic attempt at spamming me this was.
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Troy :
I put all my sites in my signature (7) not for higher SERP b
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I know what you mean.
There are so many blogs about being
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- I've pretty much been doing nothing.
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Perhaps it's some kind of existential art aimed at increasin
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I had this happen to me, or it may have happened. I am not f
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Money Honey
Spam & Scam
Email From a Scraper Site
Yesterday I noticed a scraper site whose filching had overtaken one of my site’s original entries. So I edited my .htaccess to block them.
This morning brings an email from them:
I remind you, that your RSS feed has been registered in -scraper site- database. -scraper site- is based on website RSS feeds.
Hourly our RSS parser reading new link from each registered RSS feed and publish it on our website. New links ranking system and search ranking system based on rank of the website in top referrers.
In total -scraper site- database contains 127 your links.
From the moment of your RSS feed registration, -scraper site- has sent to you 1206 hits.
If you want to take part in traffic trade, you should publish reciprocal link to -scraper site-.com and start to send visitors to us.
More you’ll send visitors to us, higher getting up your links in the list and you’ll get more traffic.
If you will not publish link to -scraper site-.com in 3 days, we’ll consider that you refusing from traffic trade with us and we’ll delete all your links from our database.
My logs don’t show so much as a single referral from them.
That registered bit reminds me of those envelopes that hope to fool you into thinking they are from the government.
Pretty ballsy.
Spam & Scam
Pious Comment Spam
Comment spam has been pretty light across all my sites lately.
Though one character promising the usual phallic magic has come up with yet another new twist: homilies.
Three or four sentences of generic pieties that might apply to just about any damn thing. They might appear on a Hallmark card from a grandmother with poor taste.
Might actually get approved by a naïve Blogger who doesn’t bother to look at the URL accompanying the comment.
Money Honey
Content + Affiliate ... ?
I think my next task will be to try to learn how to properly integrate “content” sites with affiliate programs.
It seems almost forever since I had luck with AdSense. Admittedly that is partly because I don’t have enough pages running AdSense anymore. I’m not clever enough to auto-generate pages. And only have so much time for creating pages.
I do have one site that does fine with AdBrite. But only one. Until Google slapped one of my sites down I had decent luck with SearchFeed but they don’t really have enough inventory, nor did Kanoodle for the sites that I tried it on.
As Google has wised up my luck with datafeed sites has declined considerably. I guess what I need to get a handle on may be to mix datafeeds with “content.” Generally one affiliate click beats an AdSense click by far.
I need better time management, better focus and to somehow gain a clearer insight into how things work.
Don’t far too many of us.
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Free Unique Content
At least this email wasn’t a robot link request.
“Greetings http://www. … .com/. You have a very interesting blog, as I can see you have been really working on it. Regarding your work I can make you an offer. Our writers agree to write some UNIQUE posts for your site every week, in your turn you will place the link of my site on your home page. If you are interested, and you have some questions, look please at my new blog http://www. … .com/, posts on your site will be like this. Reply me please with your answer regarding my offer. Best regards.”
I went to the solicitor’s site.
The unique “content” was mostly two paragraphs posts that almost anybody could write in their sleep. The example posts were along the lines of :
It is nice to know that people are saying nice things about you. If you feel it would be nice to read more nice things about yourself why don’t you try writing nice things about others. They’ll think it nice to read your nice words.
Not sure how to say nice things? Just think of what nice things have happened to you, nice things people have said to you and done for you. Then you’ll be in a nice mood and feel like saying nice things about the nice people.
Well, I guess it would be nice for you to build up some backlinks. But it would be even nicer if your unique “content” were nicer than what I can download off the myriad of free articles sites.
I do wonder how many people will go for this.
Omnipotent Google
There's a Naked Man in My AdSense!
I was utterly baffled when I saw the nude back of man in one of my AdSense skyscrapers. I half wondered if I’d been hacked. And it wasn’t until I read this that I found out what was up and that I could’ve safely clicked on the mysterious image:
AdSense has launched a new beta test called Vertical Images, where an image would take the place of an ad within an AdSense ad unit. These images - which are generic, and not company-specific - act similar to an ad link unit, linking to a page related to the ads and image that appeared in the ad unit.
Mixed, Motley, Sundry, Variegated
Vaastu Shastra
New age web design:
Believers in vaastu shastra say the Indian science, which seeks to create harmony between nature’s five elements – earth, fire, water, air and space – man and objects, can be directly applied to the web, just as it is to home design.
“Just as the world comprises of the five basic elements, each website has five elements and these need to be in balance with one another,” says Dr Smita Narang, author of Web Vaastu, a new book that marries vaastu laws with the Internet.
The book has proved popular with businesses.
Web Directories
MFA Diectories
I shouldn’t rag on directories but I’m in the mood to post something …
Recently I decided to add a few sites to some almost randomly selected directories.
My only criteria were quick and easy entry and relevant categories (with the latter proving the tougher of the two).
I couldn’t help but smile at the serious policies statements of these sometimes threadbare directories. Particularly: no MFA sites.
Clearly many of these general web directories were made for AdSense. Sure they are hoping some webmasters will pay for featured listings. But some are only charging a dollar. And they have AdSense code plastered all over their pages.
In this case the submitter is their content writer. By supplying site descriptions they are giving MediaBot words to read so that Google will display more than the PSAs that many of them were showing.
Excepting the directory creators who know what they are doing - e.g., pursuing tight niches - I wonder two years from now how many of these sites will have become parked domains.
Webmaster Mistakes
Error 404 : Webmaster Brain Cell Not Found
One of my purposes here - if there’s any overall plan beyond solipsistic typing - is to confess my mistakes so that maybe others who make similar will know that they aren’t the only dopey webmaster.
My most recent one (admittedly that I’m aware of) was a beaut.
Now I wondered why traffic to a site suddenly spiked. Seemed to be lots of traffic from Google all of a sudden. I didn’t wonder deeply: Google is as capricious a mistress as Wanda in Venus in Furs.
Nor did I notice that my 404s had similarly spiked.
Looking at the .htaccess on another site I saw that I’d really screwed up a redirect last week when I moved an old section of one site on to a domain of its own.
I’d pointed to the wrong domain. While they are similar in theme they don’t have the same pages, hence the 404s.
All I did was lose useful traffic and annoy a number of web surfers (who should be spared that at least until they get to the page they wanted to see).
This is among the more boneheaded mistakes I’ve made as a webmaster.