UPDATE: the new GASP Anti-Spam WordPress plugin has been released and is available in the WordPress Plugin Repository. THIS is the ALTERNATIVE TO AKISMET that provides the SOLUTION to being Flagged as a Spammer! Spread it throughout the blogosphere and your comments will work again. If you are unable to leave a comment, please Tweet @GrowMap or use this contact info. If you can, please test using different PCs, Operating Systems and browsers. You can mention what you're using in the … [Read more...]
Why I Recommend BloggerLuv, CommentLuv, SBC
BREAKING NEWS: We have just confirmed with BloggerLuv founder John Sullivan that BloggerLuv is For Sale due to personal reasons. He is asking $3000 cash. UPDATE: BloggerLuv has closed down, probably for good. BloggerLuv counts many exceptional people among their supporters and we are interested in managing and promoting the site should a financial partner come forward. ~ Contact GrowMap using the contact tab above for details. ~ … [Read more...]
SPAMMER ALERT: BuyTent.co.uk
Another particularly persistent spammer is promoting BuyTent.co.uk primarily with "nice post" and "check out my site" types of comments but sometimes with questions specific to products sold by the particular site such as "how do you attach crown moldings to a concrete wall properly?" These are coming from the same IP address as the spam for ResearchMyName I reported yesterday. Spammers are thieves of the worst sort because they steal our TIME and TIME is the one thing we can NOT buy or … [Read more...]
SPAMMER ALERT: ResearchMyName.com
I don't usually take the time to out spammers but in the case of this particular company I am making an exception because their methods are likely to cost businesses even more time than spam already does. They ask questions in blogs that are highly relevant to their business, requesting recommendations on products and even quotes which are likely to have those businesses spending time answering them. By the questions they ask it is obvious they are very intelligent. Maybe they will be … [Read more...]
Longest.com can help with that
This is a guest post about one of the sponsors of the FamousBloggers CommentLuv $3550 CASH PRIZES Blogging Contest by Stephanie Suesan Smith. Stephanie is a Master Gardener who offers gardening advice based on years of experience and extensive course training. Brian Longest runs the site Longest.com. It is focused on online business, marketing, start-ups, and venture capital. Longest has a degree in computer science and law, has practiced both, and tries to include everything one needs to know … [Read more...]