99.259% accurate 5,621 spams caught, 455 legitimate comments, and an overall accuracy rate of 99.259%.

Yes, that’s my Akismet stats as of today after a little over a year of my blog. Normally, it makes me very happy that Akismet is pretty good software, I hardly missed legitimate comments and it’s pretty awesome. It is imperative that wordpress has built in for Akismet and I am really thankful for it.

How about your Akismet stats if you ever use wordpress?

Why should I blog?

There are many blogs coming out nowadays and I see some of the blogs are actually just made for AdSense and it is becoming more and more typical. It is always good to earn money while you blog however; you should prioritize what is actually more appealing to you while you blog. So, following are the reasons in order why I blog.

To share what I experience and know

It’s just simply to share what I know and give you the best options to create wealth online, it is not easy task, but it’s already short cut because I would have tried many other techniques and will not mention if it’s not important.

To learn in areas of what I generally blog.

Everything is about learning since we were born, we all learn to learn. Toddler, kid, adult, we have to learn everyday as a human nature. If I want to be expert in my area, I also have to learn to improve myself too.

To interact with my readers

This is definitely enjoyable experiences of blogging for me. Apart from comment spams and auto commenters that are automatically deleted from the system, I enjoy interacting with my readers who are willing to give honest and truthful comments. Also, I got more solutions to solve on particular issue with commenting and I love it.

To earn money while I blog

This would be my last intention, however, it is always good to earn while I blog which is what I love to do.

So, the bottom line is blog the things you love to write about, enjoy and share your experiences, interact with new friends and also you can basically earn from you blog. Of course, if you want to create great money making site, it is better you should try with some sort of business plan before you start writing any. To be honest, blog can make you pretty good money, at the same time, it can also consume too much of your time. So, you need to know your limits and schedules if you want to start blogging. Any comments or suggestions are always welcome.

Recently, I have installed do-follow enabled comment plugin on my sites and It works like a charm. As you may all have known wordpress and most of the blogs have disabled in default, however, if you can control your spam, there’s actually better way you can take control of do-follow links.

So, i installed this fantastic do-follow plugin for my wordpress and I have actually received more comments than before just in a few couple of days. That is awesome, isn’t it?

do-follow

What are the advantages of do-follow?

Of course, there are bunch of advantages for do-follow sites, I will summarize for both myself and the rest of my visitors.

1. Default settings are always on a safe side. Once you enabled do-follow link there’s imminent threat of spamming. LOL, all you need to have a a couple of top rated spam filters such as Akismet and so on. On the bright side, it’s massive traffic. There’s always an opportunity cost for higher traffic, that comes with higher spams.

2. Repeating comments, there are two ways to follow up repeating comments, one to reply each visitor comment, and another one from visitor’s reply. Confused? Bottom line, your blog post may earn more than 2 comments from each entry because many people will comment you genuinely, on the other hand, if your visitors are clever enough, they make sure they write more than 1 comment at your blog, or reply to the same comment so that the search engine bots will read them more than once.

3. Don’t worry about PR/Alexa, they are alternative ways to benchmark your site, especially I don’t believe in Alexa ranking. I would trade more traffic than getting better PR/Alexa ranking. That’s the truth. Do-follow blogs are actually giving legit backlinks to your commentors, but don’t worry, you get heaps of traffic and your ranking will grow because It just does it.

4. Encouraging your readers to comment is best thing for bloggers. You allow backlinks, you encourage your readers that you are giving something back , rather than expecting something, that builds a great relationship to your readers as well.

5. By sharing about do-follow to those who do not know, you take control of knowledge that your visitors/readers do not know yet. It is a good opportunity your readers are bloggers and this will also help them to get backlinks which bloggers indeed love.  The more you can help a hand, the smarter you sound, don’t you?

6. Since I have carefully built my site around big search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN , ask.com , etc etc. I have very confident that every single page of mine is properly pinged and quickly indexed. Make sure you use sitemap xml and site verifications with Google, Yahoo! and MSN to get faster search engine updates. Easy Breezy method for organic search.

7. It creates a larger community. Why? Because you have no-follow blog before, now you enabled do-follow site, that’s where you have massive members and visitors to make a geniune comments and in return they get backlinks for their PR or more traffic, it’s a win-win situation and you also get to know your readers. Spam filters will actually differentiate your readers and just those people who want backlinks and etc.

8. The quality backlinks are important and half the time, many people do not understand what they mean. It depends on the place where you put your comments as well as your niche. If you are car-sales category and make a comment on this infomm.com website, you are not getting quality backlinks, that’s for 100% sure. Maybe, a legit backlinks. You need to find similar niche for your site, so that you leave comment accordingly.

9. Okay, #9 is NONE , just start doing what I have mentioned above. You will see the difference. Now, start getting quality backlinks by leaving comment on this post.

Thanks for reading

What is Akismet?

It is a plug-in for wordpress for controlling spammers on comments. Without Akismet, you might have problem managing your valuable posts.  Because 87% of wordpress comments are known to be spams and you would not want any of spams on your wordpress blog.

Where I can get it?

It is actually built-in your wordpress 2.0.xx or later. You just login as an admin, go to plugins, activate the Akismet.. As I have stated how to add google analytics in your wordpress post, you should have wordpress account created when you decided to start making money on blogging.

Once you have your account created on www.wordpress.com, you have to activate via email to validate, as soon as you are validated, you will receive an email including the API key that is required for Akismet plug-in. Alternatively, you can login to wordpress.com and go to your profile and view the API key.

Under plug-in configuration of Akismet, all you have to do is enter API key and you are good to go. It is that easy.

What else besides wordpress?

Don’t feel disappointed that I am only talking about wordpress, you may also use Akismet in many other applications. So, if you have any other applications mentioned below, you may also want to integrate and administer Akismet.

• Drupal Module
• phpBB Mod
• Blojsom blogging software
• Bloxsom blogging software (code link)
• Geeklog module
• Serendiptity spam protection includes Akismet
• Nucleus Plugin
• b2evolution Plugin
• Spam Karma + Akismet (WordPress plugin)
• PunBB (forum software) mod
• Expression Engine
• Coppermine (photo gallery) mod
• Akismet for MT by Stepan Riha
• Lifetype blogging software
• Simple Machine Forums
• Phorum
• tDiary (Japanese)
• MyBulletinBoard
• PostNuke
• Joomla by Walter Cedric