Posted by Craig in wordpress
Tags: contact form 7, spam, wordpress contact form

Hi Folks,

I’m all for using the minimum amount of plugins for your Wordpress blog. Why is because the more you have the more updates will be needed.

Also, plugins can and do get hacked and exploited and having loads of plugins is more stuff on the list of “Things to watch”…  Talk about a time vampire!

In my free Wordpress report, “Your First Wordpress Blog” I recommended using “PHP Contact Form v.2.OWP” as your mail contact form. For some reason I stopped using this and can’t remember why on one of my blogs and then changed most over to Contact Form 7.

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Posted by Craig in Traffic
Tags: blog commenting, spam

If you’ve been around you may of read about commenting on blogs to get new readers and back links.

In-coming-back-links are very important to get higher rankings in Google.

Some think, if they post comments on every blog they can find, they’ll get the back-links needed to rank well in Google thus getting lots of free traffic.

The following image is a spam comment on this blog.

When you see these, just hit the spam button and be done with it.

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