One of the biggest challenges for email marketers over the years has always been beating the spam filter. The job of the spam filter on most email providers is to prevent unwanted messages from getting in – especially those that might contain viruses, phishing scams or other harmful types of content. Today this has become […]
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How do you check your spam folder on Gmail?
Are you using Gmail as your email provider? Or, maybe you are using Gmail to read your email (like I do). Recently, it seems that the folks at Google have changed up some of their rules when it comes to getting your email sent into your inbox. A lot of mail has been ending up […]
An Ingenious Way To Fight Comment Spam
Note: This post was written previously and has been updated with new information. You may (or may not) know that you can automatically send comments left on your website to the spam list if they contain certain words. I have been maintaining a list of words that I have gathered over the years and been […]
Is It Real, Or Is It SPAM?
I have written a few posts about illegitimate comments left on your website (Fake Blog Comments, as an example), the importance of removing them, why they are left, and how to identify them. Those posts get a lot of hits from people coming to read about them. Invariably, I get asked questions about those ‘fake’ […]
Stop WordPress Spam comments with G.A.S.P
I was doing an interview for Jenny Munn (http://jennymunn.com/) today regarding “do follow”, comments, SEO, and some other things. One of the questions was, “Do you have to monitor spam more closely or is Akismet still catching most of it?” I am sure that you are aware that Akismet is the plugin that comes installed […]