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Your On-Page SEO is Missing a Few Factors

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250-scamsOh boy, here's another example of Internet marketing spam / scam that I received as a blog comment…

Hello Web Admin, I noticed that your On-Page SEO is is missing a few factors, for one you do not use all three H tags in your post, also I notice that you are not using bold or italics properly in your SEO optimization. On-Page SEO means more now than ever since the new Google update: Panda. No longer are backlinks and simply pinging or sending out a RSS feed the key to getting Google PageRank or Alexa Rankings, You now NEED On-Page SEO. So what is good On-Page SEO?First your keyword must appear in the title.Then it must appear in the URL.You have to optimize your keyword and make sure that it has a nice keyword density of 3-5% in your article with relevant LSI (Latent Semantic Indexing). Then you should spread all H1,H2,H3 tags in your article.Your Keyword should appear in your first paragraph and in the last sentence of the page. You should have relevant usage of Bold and italics of your keyword.There should be one internal link to a page on your blog and you should have one image with an alt tag that has your keyword….wait there’s even more Now what if i told you there was a simple WordPress plugin that does all the On-Page SEO, and automatically for you? That’s right AUTOMATICALLY, just watch this 4minute video for more information at. Seo Plugin

Let's dissect this…

  1. Here's the author info:
    • seo plugin
    • 0 approved
    • SeoOptimizationxxx.com/x
    • nhsfkpqf@gmail.com
    • 23.231.7.41

    GREAT name and email address for a ‘professional' SEO service, eh?

    Those are the easiest first clues to to spam blog comments.

  2. Then, this scammer doesn't know how to use a blog comment form to save his (or her) life, or the English language for that matter.Yes, you can read through the text and make sense of what he is saying, but that doesn't negate the fact that the scammer isn't actually an SEO professional… or a professional who is competent in the English language.

  3. The advice is completely bogus, i.e. ‘nice keyword density of 3-5%'. Duh. As always, my advice is to write for humans, not search engines. The search engines ‘get it' when you blog regularly about a consistent theme. They also ‘get it' when you try to write to an algorithm… to the point that you will be penalized for trying to manipulate your rankings.

  4. There is no such thing as a ‘simple WordPress plugin that does all the On-Page SEO, and automatically for you? That’s right AUTOMATICALLY'.

Nope, sorry, I hate to burst your bubble, but there is not such thing as a plugin that does ‘all the on-page SEO.

REAL bloggers do their own on-page SEO by crafting titles, tags, heading tags, image alts, slugs and everything else manually to stay in Google's good graces.

Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below!

Cheers,

Ros

Are You Playing Nice with Blog Spammers?

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comment-spamA few months ago, I helped a friend set up his first blog – sending him to Bluehost to arrange for his domain name (for free) and hosting – after which I did the installation with very basic plugins and told him to start writing, which is what he did.

I had access to the WordPress adminstration panel under my own name and set things up so that I would be notified of updates and blog comments.

Then I went offline for awhile.

Upon getting back to work, I noticed that he had made several posts to his blog and had already approved and responded to numerous comments.

Examples of those comments include:

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ѕhared across the web. Disgrace on Goоgle for noԝ not positioning this post hiɡher!
Come on over and visit my site . Thanks =)

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My friend responded to those blog comments with…

Thanks for your support.

and…

Thanks for the heads up.

UGH!

I totally understand how someone who is new to blogging doesn't ‘see' beyond a spammer's charm.

But here is the reality.

Name, URL and IP address information (I've deleted the email address) included with the first comment was:

parka chilliwack canada goose
parka-chilliwack-canada-goose.wintp.com x
142.4.212.217

Name, URL and IP address information included with the 2nd comment was:

belstaff xl 500
belstaff-xl-500.jewdi.com x
142.4.212.217

OTHER spammers that posted to his blog to which he responded included comments from:

  1. top rated gps 2014
  2. nike air max 90
  3. moncler doudoune pas cher
  4. Woolrich Pris
  5. chanel sac
  6. chaussure mercurial
  7. sweat superdry femme
  8. vente chaussure en ligne

LESSON: You need to look at the names, URLs and email addresses of those who post comments to your blog to decide whether they are real people / commenters before you respond to them.

Look for names that appear real, i.e. Mark Smith as opposed to a product name such as ‘nike air max 90'.

If the domain URL coincides with the name, i.e. parka chilliwack canada goose / parka-chilliwack-canada-goose.wintp.com, trust that this is a spammer.

Do NOT approve or respond to their posts.

All they want is a link to their site from your blog, with the hope of increasing their blog's ranking with Google.

However, allowing those links will eventually hurt your Google rankings because you are linking to ‘bad neighborhoods', i.e. spammers.

Do NOT play nice with spammers.

Mark their comments as spam and teach Akismet how to filter comments on your blog.

Comments, questions or suggestions? Please leave a comment below!

Cheers,

Ros

How to Stop Blog Comment Spam

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Sometime ago, I turned off blog comments on the NPT Blog for awhile, because I was sick and tired of scanning through all the comment spam.

Here is an example of a typical comment that was being posted to the NPT Blog.

Watts Murphy, Roisin Genocide Organ Dandy Warhols Blood Has Been Shed Stapp, Scott Fall Silent Siouxsie & the Banshees Eyes All That Remains Hendrix, Jimi Shock Skrape Tanita Tikaram New Metal Generation Hell Is For Heroes Strange Land Waits, Tom D…

Duh – as if that doesn't LOOK like spam.

But some blog comment spammers are smarter and more devious. They'll post word combinations that result in coherent sentences. On occasion you'll even find complete paragraphs that make sense. Smarter still, is that the comment spammers seem to acknowledge you, your blog and sometimes even a recent post.

Here's an example of just such a comment that I found on a fishing site – no really, a FISHING site, not a PHISHING site. 🙂 :

Jim said… Hey, you have a great blog here! I'm definitely going to bookmark you!
I have a Bass Fishing site/blog. It pretty much covers Bass Fishing related stuff. Come and check it out if you get time 🙂

Don't be fooled. This is comment spam, pure and simple. When I searched Google for “Hey, you have a great blog here!” there were 183,000 results. Scan the results and you'll find entries where the comment spammer forgot to replace the keywords, as follows:

Michael said…
Hey, you have a great blog here! I'm definitely going to bookmark you!
I have a ##KEYWORD## site/blog. It pretty much covers ##KEYWORD## related stuff. Come and check it out if you get time 🙂

Barring those who forget to replace their keywords, moderating these longer blog comments is slightly more challenging than the one-two click that wipes out a hundred or more 1, 2 and 3-word comment spams posted by pharmaceutical, gaming and porn affiliates.

However, if you want to stop comment spammers from wasting your time, you need to put a few more defenses in place. First of all… [Read more…]

Ros Takes Aim at Comment Spammers

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I've gotten to the end of my rope with blog comment spammers who appear to be getting smarter.

Their posts actually seem to be considered and thoughtful.

Here's an example:

Hi, I enjoyed reading your blog about the death of adsense. It was an intriguing article about the death of adsense. The author Scott Boulch obviously knows what he is talking about if he’s pulling in 50 K a MONTH! Wow! I am still fairly new to internet marketing but have an open mind to other individuals who may have a different opinion such as the future of adsense. I agree with Rosalind Gardner that one should not rely solely on Adsense. Feel free to check out my website for an awesome and risk-free affiliate business opportunity. Thank you. www.blogcommentspammerwebsite.com 1-800-blo-spam.

I see a number of bloggers getting duped by posts like the one above.

It seems that as long as the comment spammer says that they enjoyed the post, makes some reference to the blog post content, and that they agree with the blogger – the comment gets approved.

But LOOK again! It's an AD, folks.

Unfortunately, you have to read through the garbage fully to appreciate that fact, which is a total waste of time. It's also a waste of your readers' time if you approve the comment.

Anyway, I decided to do something about the problem.

While down in Vegas at CAC2006 I went to the Gun Shop for a little target practice.

OK, to be fair, I used to be very handy with a shotgun. Many moons ago, I spent every Saturday at the range, blowing 2 clay birds to dust as they came off the trap. BAM! BAM!

Thanks to a good instructor, Jamie (pictured right), it turns out that I'm pretty handy with an AK47 and a Glock too.

OK, I'm your typical peace-loving Canadian, so I'm not really planning to shoot any comment spammers .

Suffice to say, however, that comment spammers need not bother wasting their time on my blog – considered, thoughtful comments aside.

There's a BIG lock on the door, and they CAN'T get in – so quit wasting our time.

The spam problem on the NPT Forum is another matter entirely. Anyone up for the job of moderator?

Cheers,
Ros

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