Re: Spam on Blogs

**j* e* m* s* <h*@sbcglobal.net>**

Doug -- I'm new to the blogosphere and the few that I'm on (Smaller 
Indiana, for instance), I will leave a brief message about the new 
issue of Indiana Living Green magazine...something about a story 
featured (12 green gifts, christmas bird count info) and the link to 
the magazine.

Is that what you are talking about?

jems

>I'm seeing a LOT more spam on gardening blogs lately - these are
>human-submitted and are getting through your spam filters because of it.
>  They are however clearly spam - although they don't look like it on the
>surface.  I wrote an article on it here
>http://edit-the-net.com/spam-linksthat I would suggest you check out
>for the 4 warning signs.  And then go
>through your comments.  And before you think it really doesn't matter -
>please understand that your Google ranking (and hence traffic) is partially
>determined by the nature of your outgoing links and every time you allow one
>of these links to exist on your site, you're losing Google brownie-points.
>  Google doesn't penalize you for the nature of your incoming links - but it
>does for the nature of your outgoing links.
>Doug
>
>Doug Green
>Editor-in-Chief @douggreen
>SGF Publishing  www.simplegiftsfarm.com
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