The Honest Way

The Honest Way says “Beware, bloggers with new upgraded page ranks, there be snakes in the grass!”

I mean spammers who have an uncanny knack of sniffing out newly promoted blogs and upping their quota of spam comment attacks.

It never ceases to amaze me how they can have the intelligence to find the right sites and blogs to spam on, yet they display the utmost stupidity when it comes to using that knowledge to actually gain some link love from these blogs that they’ve gone to so much trouble to sniff out.

My advice to all bloggers is to unite to stamp out this menace by strangling and smothering their outlets. It’s easy to do and you’ll be doing your blog a big favour by not inadvertently allowing even one of these spam comments to slip though and be spidered by the search engines.

What do you mean?

I mean that if even one of these spammers manages to get a link back to one of their sites from a comment you display, the search engines may penalize your blog severely for linking to a possibly banned site at worst or a pornographic, hate, racist or other known spamming one at best. It could get your blog de-indexed, that’s how serious it could be for you. So you need to make sure your blog is water-tight.

At the very least, enable moderation of comments on your blog. All blogging platforms allow you to do this, so you have no excuse for not moderating comments. If you don’t know what that means, well it means that all comments that are made on your blog are held in a queue awaiting your approval if you want to display the comment, or deletion if you think it is spam or inappropriate. Links to spammers sites are not spidered by the search engines until you approve them.

Better is to activate a spam defence program plugin for your blog - Wordpress have one called Askimet which I use on all of my self-hosted blogs and it traps 95% of spam comments - and my moderation system traps the other 5%, so I have total control over what comments make it onto my blog’s pages.

If all bloggers stopped all spammers from obtaining even one search engine spidered link from blogs, we will have won a major battle in the war against spam.

Be vigilant and kill spam before it gets a foot in your door.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

Virtual Private Servers are a whole new dimension when it comes to professional website hosting. It’s a big step up from the shared server you may be used to. So what exactly is a virtual private server, who would need one and what are the benefits?

Virtual Private Servers are especially designed for the larger, high profile and high traffic online business. They host your website or websites on a server dedicated entirely to you. That means you don’t share a server and all its hardware and operating system with anyone else as you do with a shared server. You get root access to the machine as if it were your own, which, in terms of your usage it actually is. That means your programmers get complete control over the system they are running on, can take it down and reboot, add new software and develop your system without any restrictions.

Virtual Private Servers are needed by larger businesses who need to run and develop their own websites and keep full control over their databases, software and storage usage. They will have high traffic websites and need the flexibility of high storage volume, tons of RAM and require high bandwidth levels which are all expandable as and when needed.

These are the real benefits of moving upwards from the more restrictive shared servers to full control and flexibility that virtual private servers give a business.

If this is you and you believe your business is ready to upgrade, don’t hesitate to contact networksolutions.com by clicking one of the above links for more information.

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

          

The Honest Way has entered a new phase in its existence.

Now the site will monetize much more efficiently than before the PR hike and it has already begun. It is quite incredible what a difference it has made to the available paid review opportunities in PayPerPost. Where I was struggling to find a few relevant opportunities that paid $5 in a week, now I log in and find 37 opportunities ranging from $5 to $12.

I’m in a position too take full advantage of this, so don’t be too surprised to see a few more paid reviews popping up in here. I’ll be registering my other two make money blogs as soon as they reach three months of age in a few days time, so will be able to spread the paid reviews across three blogs so each one will not seem to be loaded with paid reviews.

To make it so that there are still the same level of good, relevant and informative posts on this blog, I’ll still be posting at the same rate I’ll just be slotting a few paid reviews amongst them, so the quality of this blog will stay as high (if not higher) than it always has.

So good things are a happenin’

Here’s to everyone’s success!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way