Smoking Out Sploggers From The Labyrinth Automatically
You will forgive me if today’s blog might be a bit of combination of info and rant. HOW I HATE LOSING TIME WITH TECHNICAL HURDLES.
On a positive note, this blog is also a commitment to myself that when I figure out the uploading of Screencast / Camtasia, I will start to get to grips with doing some practical ‘How-To’ videos for some of the more technical aspects of blog maintenance.
It started hours ago now, with my investigating how to cut out the annoying amount of inappropriate links or outright spamming from appendage-treatment-specialists, who are sending out their bots to worm their way into my blogtestines and make my blog health suffer from their infestation. Make no mistake about it, spammers are parasites on the underbelly of the blogosphere and I am getting tired of wasting my time deleting their spammage.
(Hmm… But trackbacks are also useful for link love … What to do?… Thinks….)
Today I also had four apparently very complimentary comments, the first of which, I naively believed to be genuine positive feedback from a reader. After the second, third and fourth linked to the same website, each with a different and no doubt spurious made up name and differing I.P. addresses, I smelt a rat. I did some research and these I.P. concerns were well founded; links to rubbish sites being hidden by pathetic attempts to hide the fact they were from the same Spamster. I got angry then at being taken for a mug by this same self-seeking, black-hat wearing splogger.
Needless to say, this ‘Splogger’ has had all of his empty, obsequeous blatherings about my wonderful blog now deleted and I am adding to the list of my ‘to do’s to delete all the other comments on my blog, where the email address came back as non-existent, when I personally mailed my commenters.
Reader, I suggest you do a regular clean up on your blog too, because naff links from these so-called ‘sploggers’, will undermine your Google quality score. The good news, is that fortunately those wonderful anorak fans of WordPress out there have created some pretty cool plugins to keep you clear of any nasty infections…
When I set up this blog, I installed Akismet. Obviously, this is offering me some protection, but I am still unable to recognise black-hatted spam-bots when I encounter them here, as my mere human radar does not extend that far.
I went looking for some new protection and downloaded: si-captcha-for-wordpress from the WordPress Directory and Trackback Validation.
The download into my labyrinthine filing is the easy part, of course; it’s the upload and install to my WordPress blog that is tricky. I just cannot remember the ‘flingfile’ route back to the light from the depths of the deep cyber-universe accessible by the myriad of rabbit holes!
Now, I have done this before with help, but am a determined person and by now seasoned enough blogger to know that any ‘how-to’ video answers are likely to either be non-existent or too techy in their explanations, as they are often done by bloggers who assume a certain level of expertise.
Guys, this blogger has A.D.H.D. She DOESN’T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT… Knowing this, I determined to take another route, to show anyone following behind a possible route out of this hideous labyrinthe. I downloaded more screen-capture software – CamStudioTech14 – as my old favourite, Jing have now restricted usage for freeloaders like me!
“I am going to make a video presentation for us non-techy wannabe propellor-heads”, I thought. ( “Hmmm… Good luck with that!”, said my infinite doubt!) Before I knew it another work hour down the drain!
Then, having got to the point of tearing my hair out, I went back to my business partners for their SEO training support. Fortunately, they have worked with some of the best SEO technicians around, including Ferny and Ray at SEO Networker (That’s them wrestling with other tricky manoevres in their black-belt exam!) As it happens, I had been promising myself to hear all of their series of recording and boy am I glad I did! Within 24 hours, the transformation is already amazing… I feel like I can breathe again and stop scratching!
Today’s blog then is about TREATING THE DISEASE instead of the symptoms for better time managment… I will still get around to mastering Camtasia sometime in the not too distant future and shoot some problem-solver videos for e-how.com, YouTube, Tube Mogul and you guys… but thanks to Ferny and Ray, all that download-upload malarky is now automated by a plug in they recommend. They also know some great ways to innoculate your blog against the curse of Splogeritis.
Learn more about what SEO automation can do for you from two of the industry wizards; Check out the dynamic duo that is SEO Networker from this link .
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