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My Comment Policy

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In an earlier post I discussed the fact that all of our blogs, my own and my husbands, are do follow blogs. This means that you’ll get a real link when you leave a comment.

I’m doing this because I’d like to build up my readership and give a little something back to those who leave comments regularly.

Each comment takes a tiny piece of my sites Page Rank with it though so I appreciate getting decent comments. Comments that look spammy or look like someone is just advertising their own sites or products are not appreciated.

By decent comment, I mean that if you are taking the time to reply to a post on any blog please don’t say “nice post” or “Nice blog” or “Nice picture” or “Funny ha ha”. Yes, sometimes comments like this are real, but most of the time when someone leaves such a short comment they are just commenting for the sake of commenting.

Since I’m giving away free links- each one taking a tiny bit of my sites PR with it – please don’t make me regret my gift to you. I can tell when people are following the do follow blogroll or other do follow lists that are out there because these people will hit all my sites and leave similar comments on each one.

Write a comment that adds to the post. Did it touch you in some way? Do you have a similar experience to share? Have you used the site or product that I’m discussing in my post? If so what are you thoughts on it? If you haven’t used it does it sound like something worth trying?

If you really don’t have anything to say about a post don’t feel that you have to comment for the sake of commenting. Everyone loves getting comments but I enjoy getting comments that are little more than “Hey there, nice blog, come and visit mine.”. I bet you do too.

If you leave extra links in your comment do they really relate to the post or are you advertising something?

I’ve taken to removing extra links if I don’t feel that they contribute to the post or that the person is taking advantage of my dofollow policy.

I’ve also deleted comments that do not add to the conversation.

This may sound harsh, but if I feel that someone is abusing my blog to get backlinks why should I allow it. Would you?





Want a link on a PR5 website?

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I bet you do!

Well, one way to get a link is to leave a decent comment on any of the posts on this site. This blog is a do follow blog – as are all of the blogs that my husband and run. So whenever you comment you get a link that the search engines will pick up and count towards backlinks for your site.

Cool eh?

If you want to be a do follow blogger so that you can reward those who add to your posts conversation just visit the Do Follow Blogroll page. let me know you are are a Do Follow Blogger and I’ll add you to the list (adding blogroll to your site is a requirement).

Also, if you comment often enough over the month on this blog you’ll also get a spot in the Top Commentator section – see right sidebar.

Another way to get a link on a PR5 blog is to write a post and send a trackback to Kate’s blog Electric Venom. Every Tuesday and Friday she does a Bite Me post and welcomes trackbacks to her site allowing visitors to get not one but two links to her site. See, she’s a do follow blogger so just by leaving her a comment on any of her posts you’ll get a link too.

Kate’s blog is a really good read so you won’t regret visiting her site regularly, and as I said, she gives the love back with her linkylove trackback Bite Me posts.

Spam!!!

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Ever since I installed Bad Behavior back in early February I’ve had a marked decrease in Spam. Sometimes I go a few days before any spam makes it through and of course Akismet is still turned on so it catches whatever Bad Behavior misses.

Now before I installed bad behavior I was sometimes getting 600 + spam in my Akismet Spam area each day! Not just on this blog either! My husband and I have several blogs on the go and a few were getting extremely high amounts of spam each day, and others were only getting the lowly amount of a 100 – 200 spam messages each day.

Bad behavior put an end to all that. As I said there’s days that no spam gets through to me, and others where there’s only one or two on each blog.

However, I’ve noticed over the last week or so that spams been on the increase again, particularly for this blog. It’s up to 20 or 30 a day. Maybe more. It’s not like I’m counting, however I am regularly cleaning out 10 or 11 at a time.

So what’s going on? Have I become an even bigger target than I used to be, or has something changed with Bad Behavior and or Akismet?

I’m not really complaining. Not that much anyway. Heck, if I hadn’t installed bad behavior when I did I’d probably be getting 1000 spam each and every day on several blogs!

Is anyone else using both Bad Behavior and Akismet? Have you had an increase in spam getting caught in your Akismet Spam area lately?

BTW while we are talking about spam … if you are leaving me multiple links to add to the Do Follow Blogroll or one of the other blogrolls that I run – don’t do it, unless you’ve already added the blogroll to your site. Just send me an inquiry as I’m going to email you with the blogroll code and other helpful info anyway. You can give me the links when you reply to the email.

You see, if you put multiple links in your comment it often goes into my spam folder. Luckily I do check my spam box but if I start getting hundreds of spam comments again believe me, I won’t be checking anymore.

Also, if you sign your comment with an Alexa redirect or use a tiny url to cover the Alexa redirect that often goes into spam too. I look at my spam comments – a lot of other bloggers don’t. Your comments might be going to spam and never being read! Don’t waste your time, sign your comments properly. Please.

Topicscape 3D helps you get organized

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If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by all the information that you’ve stored on your computer and have desperately wanted to find a way to get organized so that you can find the files you need within minutes you might be interested in a unique software program called TopicScape Information Organizer in 3D!

That’s right. It’s a 3D information organizer. You can get an idea of what your organized information might look like by having a look at this chefs recipe information organizer software. If you were to organize your own recipes that you’ve stored on your computer according to ingredients it might look something like the example that I linked to above.

It’s simply a new way to look at information. If you are a visual person you’ll love this software.

To use the program simply drag and drop files and information on to topic areas. Connecting the various topics in your own way will individualize your 3D Topicscape organizer in a way that suits your way of thinking.

If this sounds interesting to you, you can visit the site via any of the links above or read this in depth article 3d mindmapping software article to get even more information about this unique software program.

There’s a TopicScape lite and a Topicscape pro addition for download on the site. You can also down load TopicScape skins that will help you individualize the look and feel of your TopicScape installation.

Give it a try, perhaps this will be the perfect organization system for you.

Never lose important messages again – Backup your E-mail

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Have you ever turned on your computer and clicked on your email program only to have it crash because a virus was attached to one of the emails that you were collecting? Or perhaps for some reason your email program has crashed for no apparent reason?

It’s not fun is it? Especially if you end up losing some of your stored email or if your stored email gets corrupted!

It’s happened to me a few times and I happen to store a lot of important emails such as internet jobs I’ve completed and payments I’ve received in folders in my email program.

If you’ve had experiences like this you might be interested in a software program that will allow you to backup e-mail. Now you’ll never lose your stored email again!

What I really like about this program is that you can schedule e-mail backups. It would probably be a wise idea to schedule back ups once a week or even daily if you get a lot of important e-mail that you need to keep on hand.

Backup E-mail supports popular email applications such as Outlook Express and Microsoft outlook and you can even use the program to back up your internet explorer favorites too. Use the program to back up your address book, mail and news accounts, messages, blocked lists and store them in a single file that is compressed and can be password protected for security.

Check out the Backup E-Mail program at http://www.backup-email.com/ where you can download a trial version or purchase the full version for just $24.95.

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