New Tool To Fight Comment Spam at BlogWealth

Comment spam is the bane of every blogger's existence. The more popular your blog gets, the more spam you'll be flooded with. Fear not! SixApart has introduced a new spam fighting tool for bloggers called TypePad antispam. Don't let its name fool you-the software is Open Source and available for a variety of blogging platforms,and unlike the software its aiming to compete with, Akismet, it's free. It puts comments in [...] Read More


The First Step Toward Making Money With Your Blog at BlogWealth

Mamaadse So you've got a blog and you're ready to start making money with it. You can sign up for Adsense and every affiliate program out there, and even sell ad space on your blog, but it will all be in vain unless you've got a sold and devoted readership. In the blog world, readers are money. They are the ones that will look at your ads and click on [...] Read More


The Ultimate List of CPM Networks at BlogWealth

Photo courtesy of iStockphoto, Image# 5662949CPM networks are at the heart of blog advertising. Matching the right ads to the right audience can result in high CPM rates and that means $$$. In some cases lots of it. Crenk.com has put together a list of the top CPM networks available to bloggers. Check them out-but remember to pick and chose carefully. The wrong ads or too many of them will [...] Read More


Comment, Don't Spam at The Social Networking Weblog

When you go to someone's social networking site, or blog, and you read something interesting, you may be inclined to post a comment to them about what you read. You'll probably even leave the link to your own website in the signature. That's fine, that's the way commenting is supposed to go. It's when people comment just for the sake of commenting that bloggers have a problem. Or when they just [...] Read More


Stop spam in Movable Type blogs at I got Spam?!

As one of the readers requested, I did my best to find ways to stop comment spam on MT powered blogs. The first thing I did was to go to sixapart/movabletype website and look there. Sure enough, there's a nice selection of anti-comment-spam plugins listed there. You should definitely get the Captcha plugin, and also Askimet, while HMPassphrase looks good too. You might want to consider getting into the Honeypot project too, [...] Read More