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Yes yes I know I know that’s why I’m writing you early

Huh?

It’s Thanks Giving Day in the United States. So as all my American friends gear up for a day of family, friends football and feasting I wanted to get this short post in early (opps short for my typical rants anyways)

For me it’s just another day as I am Canadian, got my girls off to school, drove my wife to work and now I get to sit back and reap the benefits of living in a Cross Border town.

Meaning we get all the American TV stations so I can watch as much football as I can handle. Maybe I’ll cook up a turkey tonight for dinner – maybe not – ahhh who knows

So what’s this post about – In a nutshell Battling Spam Wordpress comments at your blog

What you don’t have a blog yet? hmmm give it a try it can be fun and profitable when done right.

Here’s a quick resource on how to profit from blogging that we just offered this week

http://www.NightOwlMarketing.com/blog

So what is spam comments and what can you do to reduce it

Simply spam commnets are when people or automated software leave comments on your blog posts that point back to their site that have no relation to your post

ex.) I-Marketer is obvioously a blog about Marketing now to see a comment about one of posts that says

Great post. If you would like to buy the cheapest online drugs you need to check out my site located here [then this spammer inserts their link to their site]

Pure spam.

So what to do…

I recently added a new feature to our I-Marketer blog that should interest you

It’s a captcha system that asks commenter’s to our blog to enter two words before their comments are added to the blog.

Now why is this a good thing to have. Well previously at the I-Marketer blog when someone wanted to make a comment they had to register

If you hit the comment box at the I-Marketer Blog now you will see it asks for your name, email and website but that’s optional but why wouldn’t you want to tell the world who you are and what you are doing.

Next all you have to do is fill in your comment and the two words that the box displays and hit submit.

Here’s an example of what the box looks like

So how does this benefit you and why do want one?

This cuts down on your commenters time of having to register ending any frustration on their part to make a comment at your blog

It cuts down on spam comments from automated software programs by having to actually type in two distinct words. The automated blog comment posting programs you may have heard of cannot deal with it

And finally and most importantly it starts the community building process at your blog. By allowing readers of your blog a chance to comment increases the sense of belonging to a community

We are doing our best to make you feel apart of the I-Marketer and Night Owl Marketing community.

Ok so how do you get this option on your wordpress blog

First you have to have a wordpress blog

Then you simply have to register for a free account get the wordpress plugin, install it and bam you’re in business

And yes it’s free no payment, no upgrades and you are actually helping to get books created in the process*

First go here to register:

http://recaptcha.net/whyrecaptcha.html

Next you download the wordpress plugin here:

http://recaptcha.net/plugins/wordpress/

Install it by following the directions

That’s it my friend

Here’s a quick video I found on YouTube that explains how to install a wordpress plug-in [in case you're not sure]

Enjoy this simple plugin that builds community while helping you to battle spam comment posters

*A very interesting story if you want to read why this service is free and how they help create books from offering this service read more about it here:

http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html

-Scottie
Night Owl Marketing

Scott Logan How To blog, captcha, I-Marketer, wordpress blog

I have dove head first into using Facebook to start networking and keeping in touch with old friends.

What is facebook. Simply it’s a social site where you can find friends or acquaintances to strike up deals, re-kindle relationships or just plan have some fun.

I’m still quite new to it myself and I’ll talk more about it as I learn it myself. If you are a Facebook Pro contact me to let me know what I should and should be doing
I am ashamed to say that I know what Facebook Spam is. As today I was on the end of one of these Facebook spammers.

It started out to be a simple request of friendship. Which is no biggie. I checked out the persons profile it mentioned that we had 2 friends in common one being Ken McCarthur from JVAlert and Affiliate Showcase fame.

So I figured sure maybe this guy wanted to expand his network of online marketers and since he knew Ken why not.

That was my first problem.

Within 60 seconds of accepting his “friendship request” he sends me an email pitching me on some biz opp. WOW to say I floored would be an understatement. What really pissed me off was the fact that he name dropped Ken McCarthur name then asked me to review something for him

It was a typical flash presentation biz opp. You know the kind (ground floor opp here – billion dollar industry – money around every corner) same ole crap imo

Now I’ve met Ken and I know he doesn’t roll this way so I immediately wrote this jerk back and scolding him for making this pitch at me. I mean have the decency to find out about me then maybe I’ll take a look. Not 60 seconds after we’ve just met

to avoid a 2nd problem

I deleted the guy from my friends network as I figure this guy would do the same to my friends list. Just go down the line asking to be friends with them mentioning my name and then pitching my friends his opp. (what a slimeball)

I then contacted Ken and told him what happened. He was shocked and said he actually didn’t even know the guy. He deleted him from his list as well

People do slip onto lists especially when the person requesting and you have common friends. Which is probably how he got on Kens list to begin with.

Facebook spam who would of thunk it

take care talk soon

- Scottie

Scott Logan How To, Traffic Generation

I’m am sorry to tell you that this week’s
profit-packed edition of I-Marketer had to be canceled!

I was to take over complete duties of getting the newsletter out this week on my own.

Unfortunately tragedy struck in our family this week and my cousin made the decision to end his life. It is a very sad time in our family and my heart was just not in it this week.

It was comforting attending the funeral and the healing process for the family and myself has begun.

——

Jerry and I have been working hard behind the scenes to gets things
in order here at All-In-One-Business.com after purchasing from
Kevin Bidwell

Jerry was already taking a well deserved vacation before this
event happened. I did not want to spoil his peace in paradise

He actually went to Hawaii for the first time in his life.
Like myself Jerry has fallen in love with the Islands

I assure you that next week there we be another great issue of
I-Marketer and some very exciting news is coming down the pipeline

Please stand tuned…

Sincerely,- Scottie
Night Owl Marketing

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