This morning’s online marketing tip has to do with blog spam.
When you first start blogging, you’ll hear an echo every time you post. Nobody will have any idea that your blog even exists.
Then one fine morning, you will wake up to find that the Google fairy has visited your blog in the night. Your posts and categories are being indexed with the world’s most loved search engine. It happened because that one lone soul with great page rank linked to you or something. You are excited by this, and feel encouraged to kick up the action on your blog. Soon the traffic will be coming in droves.
But along with the humans who Google your goods, the spam bots have also caught wind of your daily blog happenings, and they’re latching on like the creepy parasites they are. Every time a new comment alert sails into your inbox, you eagerly check to see who’s been coming around your door. But alas, it’s the spam creeps, here to make a mockery of you and your blogging effort. You have been duped again.
Why do people set up spam machines, and attach them to your blog? They’re trying for cheap and tawdry ways to gain link love so their sites get ranked well. From the looks of their sites, I can’t imagine how this would actually work for someone, but people do it every day.
The good news is, you can hook up a spam gobbler to your blog so you don’t have to deal with this nonsense. Just log into Wordpress and go to the Plugins area. Depending on who’s been doing what in your blog, you may find Spam Karma already in the list of Plugins. Simply activate this plugin and then follow the instructions.
If Spam Karma is not visible, you may have to go hunting for it. Click Get More Plugins and then follow the instructions for getting these to work with your blog.
If you don’t feel up for the technical challenge, then find yourself a good tech VA to manage your blog. I recommend Rachel Muraca of RachelMuraca.com, who set up the EntrepreneursBreakfast.com blog for me. She or a capable VA like her can hook up the spam killing machine for you, lickety split.
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