Comment spam is one of the biggest blights on the Internet. As far as I’m concerned, comment spam is the single most despicable and destructive activity on the Internet today. Comment spam is a serious problem.

There are 4 basic defences against spam comment:

1. Captcha (proactive)
2. Filters like Akismet (reactive)
3. Admin moderation (reactive)
4. Reader flagging (reactive) “Comments with advertisements will be removed”

I had been using Akismet all the time except for the last 2 months, just as a personal test, I deactivate Aksimet.

The Test consisted in a single easy task “Deactivate Akismet“, I still have my Askimet deactivated, you may think I am crazy but my first intention were to do it just for one single day, but nothing happened, I mean I didnt get flooded with spam comments as I tought I would be, since Akismet told me everyday from my Wordpress panel “I stopped 50, 150, 80 Spam comments and so on” but It didnt really showed me the comments to moderate them.

I just got 1 comment to moderate, that according to Akismet it was a Spam Comment, that actually turns out to be a Real Good Comment from a known guy to me. I am not saing Akismet does not work, I am saying it maybe my Akismet it is not working as it should.

Or Could the statistics be a little inflated?, have you ever counted all of your Spam Comments stopped by Akismet? I didnt had the opportunity, since I found out something I didnt were actually looking for. What I were looking for, it was just to see How Hard could it be (at the present time when I had deactivate Akismet) to moderate so many comments and see if they really could harm my blog.

I know maybe a little nuts of me, but I just had to give it a try, and I just had to delete at the most 4 real Spam Comments these last 2 months, and I still have my Akismet deactivated, I not saying this so you can exploit this right now and spam me, it may seem I am looking for trouble with spammers, but it feels odd loosing all that popularity with comment spammers, after seeing hundreds of comments per day, now I just have to moderate about a few tens of them and basically they all are real ones.

What happened?, what it is still happening right now?

Where did my popularity gone? with spammers of course.

At least this is ok, I prefer not need to deal with spammers, but, Did you ever had this kind of problems?

Still looking for answers, Would you please leave your Spa.. err mean comment about it and help me to clarify my problem.

To Your Success,

Luis Torres

www.marketing-business-review.com

Today I found a cool FREE plug-in “EntreDropers”, you can see it in my right hand side bar below the Entrecard Widget.

This plug-in will show your last dropers taken from the RSS feed at Entrecard. You have the option to make the links “DoFollow” or “NoFollow”, I just choose to use “DoFollow” so you will get a real back link to your site, the more you drop on me, the more chances you have to keep in the first 5 Top dropers (you can also choose how many dropers to show, I just choose to show my first 5), therefore your site will be showing on the widget.

I also selected to show the description of your blog, this is just to Thanks all of my Dropers. Do the same, download the FREE plugin “EntreDropers” and show some love to your daily dropers, reward them, it may help you to make them come back for more love from you :-).

If you have any doubt on how to install this plugin just visit here to download and for the full information from his developer Owen Cutajar.

There are some other cool FREE plugins in this site.

Enjoy.

I hope you will want to drop on me more often than before with this new plugin :-).

To your Success,

Luis Torres

www.marketing-business-review.com

Ninja Affiliate it is a WordPress plugin developed to improve Affiliate Marketing into your WordPress blog and double or triple your affiliate marketing commissions with almost no effort on your part.

With Ninja Affiliate, you will be able to automatically convert any keyword in your blog to an affiliate link instantly. You can also cloak your affiliate links, track them and manage them right from your WordPress text editor.

Here’s what Ninja Affiliate can do for you:

1. Easy Affiliate Link Management - You can easily give each affiliate link an easy-to-remember name..
2. Flexible Link Management - Accepts every affiliate link format out there, so you don’t have to waste time with various affiliate marketing tools..
3. Create Professional Redirect Links - Use professional looking redirect links that let your prospects know you’re a pro marketer..
4. Manage Links by Groups - Too many affiliate links? Ninja Affiliate allows you to easily create different groups to manage your links..
5. Prevent “Affiliate Theft” - Cloak your affiliate links to prevent link theft and affiliate sabotage. No one will ever steal your hard-earned commissions again..
6. Insert Affiliate Links Directly - Add your affiliate links directly for your Wordpress blog editor - you’ll never have to hunt for links again..
7. Transform Keywords to Links - Automatically turn keywords in your blog to affiliate links. You can set a limit too, so your posts don’t look like a spam blog!
8. Advanced Display Options - Ninja Affiliate allows you to display any text you want in your web browser’s status bar..
9. Use “No-Follow” Links - Control your link juice and escape punishment from Big Daddy Google with ninja precision. In fact, you can control your links any way you want to.

Keyword 2 Links

When it comes to converting keywords to affiliate links, Ninja Affiliate is one of the best systems I have seen, that allows you to have full control.

You can choose to limit the amount of keywords converted on a single page and on the blog as a whole.

Plus, you can also have custom formatting for your affiliate links that are automatically converted by Ninja Affiliate!

Finally, you can turn off Ninja Affiliate’s “Keyword 2 Links” feature any time you want without breaking anything!

Complete affiliate link management and tracking from one central location

You can organize your affiliate links and group them on a easy to find arrangement.

You can group your affiliate links like in the image so that you know which affiliate link you´re dealing with.

Add Subcampaigns to your links

This feature allows you keep track of all your traffic sources, let say for instance when you promote your blog in forums and in others blogs, how will you know which source is really paying you back from all of your efforts and which are not?

The answer is subcampaigns.

Yes, with subcampaigns, you can track different traffic sources independently and you can know which ones are really making it big time and which are not. Know which forums or blogs are worth promoting and which are not. Create the subcampaigns you want and make them look organized. Know how far your blog has progressed.

There’s no need to be logged in to Ninja Affiliate every time for creating sub campaigns. You can just add “-” and a word at the end of Ninja link and the sub campaign will be created automatically for you.

http://www.yourblog.com/go/affiliateproduct-forum
http://www.yourblog.com/go/affiliateproduct-blog

Know How Many People Visited your Link and also Know Where are they Coming From

From the MaxBlogPress Ninja Affiliate back office you can see exactly how many people have visited your link and also from where they’re coming. No guess work for figuring out which of your marketing effort is actually bringing you the result.

Create more Professional Looking Links

You can create links like these ones:

http://www.yourblog.com/go/affiliateproduct
http://www.yourblog.com/recommends/affiliateproduct
http://www.yourblog.com/goto/affiliateproduct
http://www.yourblog.com/ninja/affiliate/power/affiliateproduct
http://www.yourblog.com/anything_you_like/affiliateproduct

They look a lot better than this one, that it shows no professionalism and some people may not even trust you just by that.

http://www.1shoppingcart.com/affiliateid=3i4ud98fdf&merchant_id=934idf5

you also can cloak any of your links so you will not loose any other commission due to commission thevies.

This WordPress PlugIn it has been released just now, and there is an introductory price a “Special Launch Discount” of 20% but only before Midnight of Friday 05 of this month (September), after that it will increase back to its original price.

The regular price is 97 US dlls, but you can grab it before Friday at only 77 US dlls, I really think this is a must have plugin if you are looking to Make Money Online with affiliate marketing.

If you want to know how to improve your affiliate efforts check this tutorial FREE video from Jeff Johnson.

If you want to check this plugin just visit Ninja Affiliate

To your Success,

Luis Torres

http://www.Marketing-Busness-Review.com

If you have any question please leave your comment, I will really appreciate your thoughts.