How NOT to Recruit Affiliate Marketers
One morning back in March, I hit ‘Check Mail’ on my email client and was horrified to see more than 300 emails downloading. When all was said and done, about 20 of those emails were valid. 285 of them however were all the same – see... [Read more...]
Video: The Lighter Side of Blog Comment Spam Moderation
I found 265 spam comments in my blog’s comment moderation queue this afternoon. This video shows how I actually do filter through mountains of spam looking for valid comments that go astray and get mistaken as spam. And although it seems like... [Read more...]
Trackback Spam
One of our newest NPT Forum members, DLZ, discovered something odd in the moderation queue of his new blog and was wondering if he’d been spammed. This is the answer to his question. If you’ve been blogging for more than a day or two, you’ve... [Read more...]
How to Protect Yourself Against Hackers
One of my servers was recently hacked — and although I don’t want to alarm you, you should know that your sites could be subject to attack at any time. To help you protect your sites and your data, in this article I share what happened to... [Read more...]
Website Advertising Enquiry Spam
Over the last couple of weeks the email address posted on my domain records has been completely inundated with emails sporting subject lines such as “Website Advertising Enquiry” as shown in the screenshot below. These emails typically show... [Read more...]
Prayer for Spammers
If you tried to access the site yesterday, you probably found it a slow load – if it loaded at all. That’s because some dastardly, rotten, no-good email spammer hacked into the server and used a forgotten test blog to send upwards of a quarter... [Read more...]
Akismet: Catching 1500 Spam Comments per Day
This hat is the best blog comment spam filter ever… not. Actually, the best blog comment spam filter is the one that comes with Wordpress. It was developed by Matt Mullenweg and is called Akismet. Akismet checks comments posted to your blog... [Read more...]
GeurillaMail: Get a Disposable Email Address
I stumbled on GeurillaMail a few minutes ago and what a great idea! The website provides you with a disposable e-mail address which expires after 15 Minutes. You can read and reply to e-mails that are sent to the temporary e-mail address within the given... [Read more...]
Update on the Clickbank Spammer
The affiliate spammer mentioned in Affiliate Spammer and the Super Affiliate Handbook has been blacklisted from promoting any ClickBank products. Coincidentally, shortly after I received that confirmation from Clickbank, that post received a very nasty... [Read more...]
Affiliate Spammer and the Super Affiliate Handbook
On August 1st, I received an email promoting the Super Affiliate Handbook (included at the bottom of this post), purportedly from the affiliate manager at MP3Dollars. I paid little attention to the email, thinking it was perhaps valid as I was once... [Read more...]
