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Getting a lot of spam comments on your blog?

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

If you run a blog and get a lot of comments submitted to your blog that are spam or links to malicious software, don’t worry, your not alone. According to WebSense 95% of blog comments are spam.

There are steps you can take to limit the amount of spam you get but the methods to combat spam vary depending on the blogging software you use (e.g. Blogger, WordPress, etc).

You could also take the drastic measure of turning off comments completely so that nobody can submit comments but then this doesn’t encourage a community and might make regular blog readers who like to leave a comment stop reading your blog.

Contact us if you would like to learn more.


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Website counters – don’t do it

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

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I’m going to let you into the mindset of a web designer/developer. We cringe when clients ask us to put a Web Counter onto their website and we do everything we can to persuade a client against having one on their website.

Here are the two reasons why I get asked for a web counter along with my general response:

“We want to be able to see how many visitors we get to our website”

My response: “Instead of putting a Web Counter on your website I will integrate Google Analytics for you which will give you more feedback on visitors to your website that you will ever use”. I won’t go into the power of Google Analytics here but suffice to say it is a very powerful solution and is 100% FREE.

“We want other people to see how many visitors we get to our website”

My response: “Why would you want to give away key information about your business whilst risking the survival of your company at the same time?” Lets just say you have a website selling jam pot covers and you have only been operational for 6 months. Then, lets say your Web counter shows you have had 18,000 visits in 6 months. What you are telling people is that jam pot covers are highly sought after and therefore profitable. What’s to stop these people setting up a website in direct competition to you.


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