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7 Ways Spammers use Psychology to Trick Bloggers

Blog comment spammers make every psychological appeal from guilt to flattery to spread their message. Sadly, here are some that have been successful and remain in search engine indices today.

10 Don’ts of Blog Commenting

I love getting comments! I always feel a little twinge of excitement when I log on and see that there are comments waiting to be approved. I’d like to thank all who have contributed your comments to posts and let you know that I truly appreciate your effort. There are still commenters out there who don’t get approved because of the following reasons.

5 Cool Things about Blogging

I can’t understand why some people still don’t blog.

Mitch Keeler Interviews Me

Mitch Keeler of the Web Hosting Show and Mitchelaneous interviews me, of all people.

Dumbest Link Exchange Request Ever

Laugh or cry, this is the dumbest link request ever.

Paid Links Post Crashing Matt Cutt’s Site?

Wow, did the paid links controversy stir up enough posts to cause WordPress to crash at Matt Cutts’ blog?

3 Blog Tips

3 Tips to Improve your Blog Steven Bradley, aka Van Gogh, sent a blog meme my way last week. My mission is to come up with 3 tips to improve your blog. The meme is a fork from the what are your favorite magazines meme. I’m glad I don’t have to answer that question because I don’t read many magazines [...]

Why do I Blog?

The Revenge of 5 things you didn’t know about me David Temple tagged me with a “meme.” This is the first blog meme I’ve participated in. I don’t really have an opinion on memes so it’s kind of an experiment to see what happens both inside my mind and among the pixels here. David confesses he doesn’t [...]

Akismet Angst

A Warning to Akismet Users Everyone knows that Akismet is Matt Mullenweg’s/Automattic’s WordPress anti-spam plugin, “a collaborative effort to make comment and trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging, so you never have to worry about spam again” that runs “hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.” [...]

2006 Review

2006 has been a good webmaster year for me. It was my first full year blogging at Clickfire. Earlier in the year I landed a full time job with Response Mine, an intereactive ad agency in Atlanta. It’s a job that I really enjoy putting my heart into (doing SEO, webmastering, and some design–what else). I am working longer hours [...]

Why I Created a Blog

The inagural Clickfire blog post explains why I created a blog

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