29
Jan
Spam is a pain in my A$$ – but funny sometimes.
Exhibit A: amusing spam comment this very blog! Click on the photo for the full size.
Click play on the video below to “lemme esplain”:
Meanwhile in other social media adventures….
my facebook and unused @catthegirlguru twitter profile was gettin spammed by my auto news tweets. *sigh* I turned them sh*ts off for now… They were putting like stock quotes on my facebook…*sigh* that’s not very friendly.
I am really enjoying twitter now! Thanks in part to this chick and @silran666 aka “The Magical Mexican”. We are going to have a pow wow at her lovely little cookie shop next week! I’m so excited!
-Happy real life and web-ness!
Aprylcat
Tags: 365daygirl, girl, personal branding, self branding, spam filter, woman, Work&Play
Michelle
I am not sure what you use to do your blogging… I use wordpress. And so to filter my 150 or so weekly spam messages, I use Akismet. It is FANTASTIC. It’s free for personal use and if you makin da money (over $500/month) they ask you to purchase a key…
Check it out here:
http://akismet.com/
365daygirl
ah that is awesome! it’s funny, I thought I had askimet installed on my wp site already but I guess I never activated it or something, cause I remember seeing the name before. also I just registered for a key so thank you for mentioning that – without you saying that I had no idea that was a primary step to get it to work. I just installed it again, activated it and put in my license key. thanks again michelle!
@ericmichael
These ppl tend to run automated software that just finds and spams the crap out of any and all wordpress sites. An idea to limit this might be to remove the Powered by Wordpress line in the footer of the blog. They could be using that to find targets. They don’t really want you to buy crap. The reason they put the link on your blog is so that when Google Bot visits your site, they will see you have a link to their site. It counts as a bonus point for them and helps increase their search engine rank. Annoying crap. I’m still laughing about the ’stache line in it though. Weird! haha
365daygirl
hmm…interesting. thanks for the tips @ericmichael – and for commenting on my blog for the first time! I just set up Askimet with this blog after @michelle’s suggestion and I haven’t seen any amusing spam or otherwise since setting it up. but we shall see – it’s only been about a week ;) and yeah…the ‘moustache’ thing is pretty awesome. lol. that reminds me I need to spread some 365daygirl love across the web myself – in a nonspammy way of course ;)