<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>SmartBloggerz &#187; Matt</title> <atom:link href="http://www.smartbloggerz.com/author/matt/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.smartbloggerz.com</link> <description></description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:59:54 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Market Your Blog Using&#8230;.. Spam?</title><link>http://www.smartbloggerz.com/2010/02/market-your-blog-using-spam/</link> <comments>http://www.smartbloggerz.com/2010/02/market-your-blog-using-spam/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:15:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog Promotion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blogging Tips & Business Tips]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guest Posts]]></category> <category><![CDATA[guest post]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.smartbloggerz.com/?p=2519</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Matt Adamo who loves talking about blogging, copyrighting, social media and you can read his blog at MattAdamo.net Since the beginning of time there has always been an evil to match every good. Hercules had Hades, Mufasa had Scar, and of course &#8230;.. Luke Skywalker had Darth Vader. Now I&#8217;m [...]<hr size="1" /><p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">THIS IS A <a href="http://www.smartbloggerz.com/2009/04/more-fun-and-benefits-while-commenting-on-smartbloggerz/" target="_blank" title="Find out How We Are DoFollow">DO FOLLOW BLOG</a> --- <a rel="nofollow" href="#respond">ADD YOUR COMMENT</a></span></strong><div style="clear:both; width: 575px; height: 70px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"><div style="width:225px; float:right; padding:1px 2px 2px 3px;"> <img src="http://blog.smartbloggerz.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/share11.png" width="250" title="Share and Bookmark"></img></div><div style="width:58px; float:left;"><div class="topsy_widget_shortcode topsy_theme_brick-red" style="background: url(data:,%7B%20%22url%22%3A%20%22http%253A%252F%252Fwww.smartbloggerz.com%252F2010%252F02%252Fmarket-your-blog-using-spam%252F%22%2C%20%22style%22%3A%20%22big%22%2C%20%22title%22%3A%20%22Market%20Your%20Blog%20Using.....%20Spam%3F%22%20%7D);"></div></div><div style="width:60px; float:left;"><script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script></div><div style="width:65px; float:left;"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js"></script><script type="in/share" data-counter="top"></script></div><div style="width:65px; float:left;"> <g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone></div><div style="width:65px; float:left;"><div id="fb-root"></div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=115199738565740&amp;xfbml=1"></script><fb:like href="" send="true" layout="box_count" width="450" show_faces="true" font=""></fb:like></div></div><div id="authorbox"> <img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0dfcb28596cbd3e39eec591e55f96bb3?s=80&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D80&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-80 photo' height='80' width='80' /><h4><strong>Article Written By <a href="http://www.smartbloggerz.com/author/matt/" title="Posts by Matt" rel="nofollow">Matt</a> </strong></h4> Hey guys, My name is Matt Adamo, and i'm a 17 year old high school student from New York that has a fiery passion for blogging. If you want to learn more about me than check out my blog at <a href="http://www.MattAdamo.net">www.MattAdamo.Net</a> <span style="color: #808080;"><em> Matt has written <b>1</b> superb article(s) on this blog</em></span></div><div class="related"> No related posts.</div><div class="subscribe"><h4>BLOGGING PROFIT FORMULA</h4><p class="text">Discover The SAME Formula That I Use To Rake-In 4-5 Figures US Dollars Every Month. And, It's FREE...<div class="subform"><form method="post" action="http://www.getresponse.com/add_contact_webform.html" target="_blank"> <input type="text" name="name" class="name" value="Enter your first name" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;" /> <input class="email" type="text" name="email" value="Enter your primary email" onfocus="if(this.value==this.defaultValue)this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value=this.defaultValue;"  /> <input name="submit"  class="submit" type="submit" value="Get Instant Access HERE!" /><input name="webform_id" value="88971" type="hidden" /></form></div></div></div><br/><div align="center"><div id="fb-root"></div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"></script><fb:like-box href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/SmartBloggerz/106423196054383" width="580" show_faces="true" border_color="" stream="false" header="true"></fb:like-box>]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><em>This is a <a href="http://www.smartbloggerz.com/write-for-us/">guest post</a> by Matt Adamo who loves talking about blogging, copyrighting, social media and you can read his blog at <a title="Matt Adamo" href="http://www.mattadamo.net/" target="_blank">MattAdamo.net</a></em></p><p>Since the beginning of time there has always been an evil to match every good. Hercules had Hades, Mufasa had Scar, and of course &#8230;.. Luke Skywalker had Darth Vader. Now I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard the quote &#8220;<span style="background-color: #ffcc00;"><span style="color: #333333;"><strong>History Repeats Itself</strong></span></span>&#8220;, well that&#8217;s exactly the case for bloggers.</p><h4 style="text-align: center;"><strong>&#8220;For every great blog out there, there is a spammer just waiting to pounce on it.&#8221; </strong></h4><p style="text-align: left;">Well luckily for bloggers, <strong>we can actually use spam as a weapon against itself</strong>. The one major flaw to spam is that it is VERY easy to spot. Just like anyone in life who is a fake, your natural human instinct can figure them out really quick. So just by being considerate, engaging, and &#8220;real&#8221;, we can actually stand out of the crowd and get some serious exposure.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span id="more-2519"></span></p><p style="text-align: left;">But before I talk more about that, lets learn the different type of spammers. We&#8217;ve all seen &#8216;em, we&#8217;ve all deleted them, and <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">we all HATE them.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2607" title="thewayspamthink_6" src="http://blog.smartbloggerz.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/thewayspamthink_6.gif" alt="" width="435" height="305" /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong>First we have the &#8220;Bait &amp; Switchers&#8221;</strong></h4><p style="text-align: left;">They usually post something like this&#8230;</p><p style="text-align: left;">Great Article, <br /> learn how you can <a href="http://www.smartbloggerz.com">make money online</a> here &#8212;&gt; www.Ispampeoplealot.com</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong>Then we have the &#8220;Top Commenter&#8221; spammers</strong></h4><p style="text-align: left;">There only goal is to get as many post on your blog as they can. They do this to get a quick backlinks or to try and get  on the &#8220;Top Commenter&#8221; list if you have it.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Usually they just see your article and write 2-3 words like &#8220;nice post man blah blah&#8221;</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong>We also have the blatant generic advertiser spammers </strong></h4><p style="text-align: left;">These people have <strong>absolutely NO interest</strong> in your blog. They use some type of software to find random wordpress blogs, and then in hopes of a backlink they will write something like&#8230;</p><p style="text-align: left;">I find &#8220;insertsitenamehere.com&#8221; to be a really informative site. The posts here are fun to read and also very engaging.</p><p style="text-align: left;">They never post with normal names. Always with an anchor text like &#8220;car insurance quotes&#8221;.</p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><strong>Lastly we have the straight up bots</strong></h4><p style="text-align: left;"><strong> </strong>These are usually in a different language or make absolutely NO sense. Usually they have some random letters with a hyperlink in the middle.</p><p style="text-align: left;"><em>[<strong>Admin Note</strong>]: Actually these are basically built for spamming into forums but they also take wordpress blogs as forums..They use codes which are functional on forums but not on wordpress blogs due to which only their links gets published instead of proper anchor text link on blogs.</em></p><p style="text-align: left;"><strong>So now that we know how to spot them lets talk about how to beat them</strong>. Like I said before, With all of the spam out there it&#8217;s important to make yourself stand out of the crowd. Doing a few little things can really make you seem considerate and &#8220;<strong><span style="color: #008000;">REAL</span></strong>&#8220;.</p><p style="text-align: left;">Being a blogger, I really love getting a sense of community and the best way to see that is through blog comments. When I see that someone leaves quality blog comments, I almost always go to their blog and leave a comment on their posts, re-tweet it, and if it&#8217;s really good; share it on my blog. Not only that but if other commentators see a really informative comment they will want to check out your site and see what you&#8217;re all about (I know for a fact, because I get over 150 hits a day to my blog from blog comments).</p><p style="text-align: left;">If you can <strong>learn how to leave quality blog comments</strong> than you can really <strong>differentiate yourself from the spam and get some great exposure</strong>. (This works the same for @ messages on Twitter, and pretty much anything on Facebook)</p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><strong>So here is what you need to do&#8230;</strong></h3><ul><li>Make sure when your write your comment you really connect with what the reader was saying. Yea, you might think the post was great, but <strong>don&#8217;t just write &#8220;great post&#8221;</strong>. Tell the blogger why you liked the post. As a blogger I always take these comments to heart and find ways to reward these bloggers.</li></ul><ul><li>Make sure you comment regularly on people&#8217;s blogs. Subscribing to lots of blogs is a great idea. Leaving a quality comment is a great idea, but leaving one on every single post is an <strong>AMAZING</strong> idea. The blogger will really start to notice you and you wouldn&#8217;t believe the opportunities that could open up. (traffic, reviews, jv partners,money etc&#8230;)</li></ul><ul><li>Continue with a conversation or start your own. Frequently on blogs in the comment section you will see a little discussion of it&#8217;s own. Join in and let yourself be heard, or even start your own discussion.</li></ul><h3><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Some final thoughts</strong></span></h3><p>The biggest thing is to make sure you differentiate yourself from everyone else out there. Sometimes spending the extra 30 seconds to write 2 sentences can really make a difference in the long run.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Blog hard, Blog strong!</strong></span></p><p>Always &#8211; Matt Adamo</p> <br><b>Top 10 Search Terms:</b><p> • using spam marketing</p><hr size="1" /><p style="text-align: right;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-small;">THIS IS A <a href="http://www.smartbloggerz.com/2009/04/more-fun-and-benefits-while-commenting-on-smartbloggerz/" target="_blank" title="Find out How We Are DoFollow">DO FOLLOW BLOG</a> --- <a rel="nofollow" href="#respond">ADD YOUR COMMENT</a></span></strong></p><div style="clear:both; width: 575px; height: 70px; margin-bottom: 15px; text-align: center;"><div style="width:225px; float:right; padding:1px 2px 2px 3px;"> <img src="http://blog.smartbloggerz.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/share11.png" width="250" title="Share and Bookmark"></img></div><div style="width:58px; float:left;"><div class="topsy_widget_shortcode topsy_theme_brick-red" style="background: url(data:,%7B%20%22url%22%3A%20%22http%253A%252F%252Fwww.smartbloggerz.com%252F2010%252F02%252Fmarket-your-blog-using-spam%252F%22%2C%20%22style%22%3A%20%22big%22%2C%20%22title%22%3A%20%22Market%20Your%20Blog%20Using.....%20Spam%3F%22%20%7D);"></div></div><div style="width:60px; float:left;"><script src="http://www.stumbleupon.com/hostedbadge.php?s=5"></script></div><div style="width:65px; float:left;"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://platform.linkedin.com/in.js"></script><script type="in/share" data-counter="top"></script></div><div style="width:65px; float:left;"> <g:plusone size="tall"></g:plusone></div><div style="width:65px; float:left;"><div id="fb-root"></div><script src="http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#appId=115199738565740&amp;xfbml=1"></script><fb:like href="" send="true" layout="box_count" width="450" show_faces="true" font=""></fb:like></div></div><div id="authorbox"> <img alt='' src='http://0.gravatar.com/avatar/0dfcb28596cbd3e39eec591e55f96bb3?s=80&amp;d=http%3A%2F%2F0.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fad516503a11cd5ca435acc9bb6523536%3Fs%3D80&amp;r=G' class='avatar avatar-80 photo' height='80' width='80' /><h4><strong>Article Written By <a href="http://www.smartbloggerz.com/author/matt/" title="Posts by Matt" rel="nofollow">Matt</a> </strong></h4><p>Hey guys, My name is Matt Adamo, and i'm a 17 year old high school student from New York that has a fiery passion for blogging. If you want to learn more about me than check out my blog at <a href="http://www.MattAdamo.net">www.MattAdamo.Net</a></p> <span style="color: #808080;"><em><p>Matt has written <b>1</b> superb article(s) on this blog</p></em></span></div><div class="related"><p>No related posts.</p></div><div class="subscribe"><h4>BLOGGING PROFIT FORMULA</h4><p class="text">Discover The SAME Formula That I Use To Rake-In 4-5 Figures US Dollars Every Month. 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