Matt McGuire Online

Stopping SPAM

Matt — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:55:05 +0000

Wordpress has a great plugin called Akismet. It works very well for blocking spam. For some reason this site attracts a lot of spam. I have other Wordpress sites with far more traffic that get less spam. It’s odd, but either way Akismet keeps my filtering to a minimum. Here are the current stats for this month.

5,252 spams caught, 224 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.580%.

I laugh at how stupid many spammers are. Not the guy that really is going around reading posts and commenting for the back link, it’s the other guys that make me laugh. The ones that act like they are following me for years and love my blog. I know these are normally bots, but still funny. Here is a good one I saw today:

It’s been quite sometime since I last visited this blog. Look like you have another great post entry again. lol. When are you going to stop posting good stuffs?

What are stuffs? At least have someone that speak English proofread your bot scripts. Good times!

Anyway I just upgraded Wordpress and all of my plugins. Wordpress is really getting easy to maintain.

New Forum Project

Matt — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 00:03:52 +0000

I am starting a new project. It’s a forum for the residents in the Sacramento area. The new forum is called Sacramento World.

I have had great success with another forum for different community. I am trying to replicate that success for the Sacramento region. If you live in the area sign up for account and start chatting

Technorati Tags: forum, sacramento, sacramento world

Stupid Spammers

Matt — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:20:06 +0000

Everyday I get spam comment posts on this and other blogs I run. Most of the comments are stopped by my spam filters and I never see them. The few that get past the filters are held in moderation. I manually review all comments. If you can’t even bother to mention something about my post I will not approve your comments. Do these spammers really think bloggers are that dumb? I get comments like this all the time.

“Where is the best place to learn about this? This is a good article, thanks” or
“Can you provide more information on this?” or
“You don’t deceive my expectation! Thank you for the post again.”

Do you really think you are going to fool me into thinking you are really commenting on my specific post. It’s always funny when I see the exact same comment on the same day on 3 or 4 of my blogs. Keep up the good work spammers, you give me something to laugh about.

What is the Best Way to handle Spam Comment in Blog? (espreson.com)

Technorati Tags: Akismet, Comment Spam, spam

New Hosting Provider

Matt — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:54:05 +0000

I moved to a new hosting provider. I am now running my own VPS which meas I have a lot more horsepower for hosting websites. I am offering cheap hosting if you are interested.

Technorati Tags: hosting, vps

More dofollow blogs

Matt — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:06:23 +0000

I found a good list of dofoolow blogs over at richardxthripp.thripp.com. Check them out and let me know what you think.

Technorati Tags: dofollow

The Eclectolink Experiment

Matt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:48:01 +0000

I found an interesting experiment over on Swollen Pickles. It’s an older post, but I thought I would try it any way. Here’s the deal.

Below is a matrix of 100 randomly generated words, I have already added a link to my blog to one of the random words. All you need to do is copy and paste the matrix into your blog and add your own link to one of the other vacant words, and then tell others to do exactly the same!

ECLECTOLINK

dealt : grants : detected : rotating : finishes : expiring : obscure : films : land : grouped : swallowed : hey : activate : releasing : psychologist : selected : serious : forgiving : pacifier : alarmed : tracking : green : telling : unlimited : fitting : hammer : founds : engage : stretches : psychological : reliable : citizen : should : mileage : inferiority : appalling : midnight : shows : provides : sharing : instruct : waved : ride : migrated : country : drawings: uninteresting : quibble : consecutive : advertises: filming : method : premise : incentive : flips : designers : damned : regretting : coincidence : layers : immense : info : skills : definitions : mum : somewhere : atom : illustration : opened : thought : smoking : compiler : credits : liberties : mail : deductions : integrating : cap : collapse : consuming : dragon : elderly : declared : prohibited : forests : precisely : notifies : weakness : arrogant : difference : heel : everybody : pretty : bundle : accord : writings : wars : verb : factually : participates

Rules
No Porn Sites
Only 1 link per person
Please don’t tamper with other peoples url’s
Enjoy!

Technorati Tags: Backlinks

Lance Armstrong in Sacramento

Matt — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:18:15 +0000

This weekend a buddy got a few good shots of Lance Armstrong in Sacramento for the Amgen Tour. Too bad Lance’s bike was stolen. Here are a couple shots.

Technorati Tags: Lance Armstrong

A DoFollow List of A Social Sites

Matt — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:30:16 +0000

Here is a list of DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites

Digg Alexa Rank: 284 Google PageRank: 8
Squidoo Alexa Rank: 510 Google PageRank: 8
Mixx Alexa Rank: 673 Google PageRank: 8
Propeller Alexa Rank: 2252 Google PageRank: 8
BlinkList Alexa Rank: 28616 Google PageRank: 8
Newsvine Alexa Rank: 7106 Google PageRank: 7
Furl Alexa Rank: 21691 Google PageRank: 7
mister-wong Alexa Rank: 48142 Google PageRank: 7
Connotea Alexa Rank: 98706 Google PageRank: 7
My Web BETA – Yahoo! Alexa Rank: 1 Google PageRank: 6
ClipClip Alexa Rank: 23106 Google PageRank: 6
Diigo Alexa Rank: 40648 Google PageRank: 6
Ma.gnolia.com Alexa Rank: 79651 Google PageRank: 6
Bibsonomy Alexa Rank: 113962 Google PageRank: 6
Backflip Alexa Rank: 115329 Google PageRank: 6
Spurl Alexa Rank: 116783 Google PageRank: 6
Faves Alexa Rank: 8846 Google PageRank: 5
Jumptags Alexa Rank: 6789 Google PageRank: 5
coRank Alexa Rank: 26003 Google PageRank: 5
Shoutwire Alexa Rank: 36023 Google PageRank: 5
Searchles Alexa Rank: 38934 Google PageRank: 5
givealink.org Alexa Rank: 48195 Google PageRank: 5
myVmarks Alexa Rank: 68743 Google PageRank: 5
Spotback Alexa Rank: 69454 Google PageRank: 5
Connectedy Alexa Rank: 102895 Google PageRank: 5
BuddyMarks Alexa Rank: 127997 Google PageRank: 5
linkaGoGo Alexa Rank: 128130 Google PageRank: 5
OYAX Alexa Rank: 34804 Google PageRank: 4
BmAccess Alexa Rank: 38697 Google PageRank: 4
BlogMarks Alexa Rank: 42675 Google PageRank: 4
Tagza – Beta Alexa Rank: 45487 Google PageRank: 4
Socialogs.com Alexa Rank: 72071 Google PageRank: 4
BookmarkTracker Alexa Rank: 95378 Google PageRank: 4
mylinkvault Alexa Rank: 153096 Google PageRank: 4
A1-Webmarks Alexa Rank: 178619 Google PageRank: 4
Yattle Alexa Rank: 42825 Google PageRank: 3
MyPIP Alexa Rank: 48251 Google PageRank: 3
PlugIM Alexa Rank: 55080 Google PageRank: 3
SyncOne.net Alexa Rank: 68628 Google PageRank: 3
Tedigo.net Alexa Rank: 48929 Google PageRank: 2
ez4u.net Alexa Rank: 79114 Google PageRank: 2

Technorati Tags: blogs, dofollow

Promote Your Blog

Matt — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:16:10 +0000

Commenting on tother people’s blogs is a great way to get backlinks if they do not add the nofollow tag. Commenting on blogs in your niche even if they add the nofollow tags can be a good way to generate direct targeted traffic.

Michael over at theBloggerSource is putting on comment promotion. Head on over and comment on his blog. Tell people about your blog and why they should visit. Maybe some people will actually do just that.

Technorati Tags: Backlinks, commenting

Backlinks Take Time

Matt — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:03:45 +0000

Be patient with your backlink campaigns. I talk to people that get 5 one way backlinks and the following week they wonder where their traffic is. It just does not work that way. It takes dedication and time or a lot of money and time to benefit from getting good backlinks. Search engines will eventually find your link, but it might take months for them to find your link and give your site credit.

If you have a bunch of money to get started with a backlink campaign that it’s pretty easy. Just pay someone to get those links for you and wait a few months for the links to get indexed. If you are like me and have some time but you want to stay on a limited budget then you will need to work hard to get those link. First and foremost, content, content, content. The better your connect the more likely it is that someone will link to your site on their own.

Also try searching for dofollow and commentluv sites. In google include the industry you want to post about and the words dofollow and commentluv. This will help turn up blogs in your niche that allow dofollow links as well as good keyword links via commentluv. Just remember not to spam other sites. Also leave relevant posts. Don’t just say “Nice site”. You comment will probably never be approved or deleted. After each post you make on your blog try to go out and make at least one comment on a dofollo and commentluv site. In your niche is the best, but almost any site will do. Of course the more posts you make the better, but at least get in the habit of making one comment. Also try not to use the same sites.

This will take time. You might not realize any gains for 6 months or more. Hang in there it will pay off.

Technorati Tags: Backlinks, commentluv, dofollow