State of Blogging

[walrus]

Originally Posted by ronnie

I dont want to tell you what I would like to do to these people that spam trackbacks and comments.

ronnie

I've hacked in a word filter but never actually turned comments off. Besides some of the Walrus's best shit is actually in the comment section as responses to spammers. After I've deleted their links, of course.

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by walrus

I've hacked in a word filter but never actually turned comments off. Besides some of the Walrus's best shit is actually in the comment section as responses to spammers. After I've deleted their links, of course.

I agree completely that comments and trackbacks for that matter, can really add to a blog. Probably the reason it pisses me off so much. If it was a few spams, I could handle that, but I was getting hundreds, it was insane. I know what they are doing, they grab the links and put it in their software and churn out crap after crap.

ronnie

[walrus]

The reason I had to hack in the word filter is one asshole must have had his spam machine on auto-pilot, I was getting 45 comments a minute. I've got probably a dozen words in the filter and it reduced my spam to something manageble.

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by walrus

The reason I had to hack in the word filter is one asshole must have had his spam machine on auto-pilot, I was getting 45 comments a minute. I've got probably a dozen words in the filter and it reduced my spam to something manageble.

Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check out my blog, I think it has some guards for spam, or add-ons. I really hated to close off the comments, was starting to get some good ones. Even get e-mails from surfers, kinda cool, and more so when they believe the "story"..

ronnie

[bunky2u]

Not many of you know this, but before I started work on http://www.deletedbrain.com/ I was running a fake TGP called StrippedGalleries and to push traffic towards it I had nice little blog called bunky's beauties. It pushed some traffic to the TGP, but most of my sales were being generated by my blog!


That got me thinking of redoing StrippedGalleries into something different. I wanted to meld my TGP and the blog into one. It took awhile but I finally got there. I am slowly getting back into the habit of making my own "life" entries as I did on bunky's beauties. I have added that feed to DeletedBrain to give and return traffic between the two sites.

It is important to have more than just some pics followed by a paragraph of text with a few links... I cannot stress that enough.

One thing that I have never really had a problem with was spammers. Even with my old bunky's beauties blog Ihhad a few incidents wher some bot popped a bit of crap, but that was it. I consider myself damn fortunate. But I have also never had a "following" like other bloggers do... rarely does anybody ever post a comment on my blog... that bites ass.

Anyway, while I am back here, I want you guys to have a look at http://www.strippedgalleries.net/ and give me your honest opinion. Do you think it looks like a Splog? That's what I am wondering at this point... and maybe that is why I am not getting the comments that others do.

thanks

bunky

[ronnie]

Originally Posted by bunky2u

Not many of you know this, but before I started work on http://www.deletedbrain.com/ I was running a fake TGP called StrippedGalleries and to push traffic towards it I had nice little blog called bunky's beauties. It pushed some traffic to the TGP, but most of my sales were being generated by my blog!


That got me thinking of redoing StrippedGalleries into something different. I wanted to meld my TGP and the blog into one. It took awhile but I finally got there. I am slowly getting back into the habit of making my own "life" entries as I did on bunky's beauties. I have added that feed to DeletedBrain to give and return traffic between the two sites.

It is important to have more than just some pics followed by a paragraph of text with a few links... I cannot stress that enough.

One thing that I have never really had a problem with was spammers. Even with my old bunky's beauties blog Ihhad a few incidents wher some bot popped a bit of crap, but that was it. I consider myself damn fortunate. But I have also never had a "following" like other bloggers do... rarely does anybody ever post a comment on my blog... that bites ass.

Anyway, while I am back here, I want you guys to have a look at http://www.strippedgalleries.net/ and give me your honest opinion. Do you think it looks like a Splog? That's what I am wondering at this point... and maybe that is why I am not getting the comments that others do.

thanks

bunky

One thing I noticed on your blog, and this might just be me, but I found it hard to read and kind of something I did'nt want to read, did not seem good on the eyes, if that makes sense. I think because you have dark text on dark background and all the text is bold. Blogs are suppose to be read, so need to make them easy to read. Least thats my take..

ronnie

[walrus]

Bunky, to answer your question, no I wouldn't consider strippedgalleries a splog (but its close) but I also see it as pretty plain and similar to tons of other blogs out there.