Tag: blogging

Stop Comment Spam and Trackback Spam

Nick Momrik3 Comments

With Akismet from Automattic or more specifically Matt Mullenweg. I just purchased a Pro-blogger license for an entire year and installed the WordPress plugin on all of my blogs. I removed my other spam prevention plugins, turned off the Comment author must have a previously approved comment option in WP, and even deleted my comment spam word blacklist. That’s how confident I am in Akismet as a spam prevention service. We’ll see how it works out. I doubt I’ll regret it.

When a new comment, trackback, or pingback comes to your blog it is submitted to the Akismet web service which runs hundreds of tests on the comment and returns a thumbs up or thumbs down.

If you’re running a WordPress powered blog I suggest you give it a try and support those who are behind it. They’ve done a lot for the blogosphere over the last 2 years.

A 2nd Job

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I’ve been spending a lot of time lately with blogs. In the last few weeks, I’ve launched two new sites, NICKED Up and Primary Rough. This has taken up a lot of my free time and will continue to do so. I have another site or two on the way. As I launch more sites some of the types of posts usually found here will be on the other sites. MtDewVirus will always be my personal site and I hope for it to get back to being more of a personal site than it has been lately. I’ll try to post more about what I’m up to.

Blogging has pretty much become a 2nd job for me. With the income coming in from my sites, it really has to be like a 2nd job so that I can keep things updated. Without updated sites, income starts to drop off. The last few months have been great in terms of growth and I’m set financially right now, which is a great feeling.