Working at Home on the Internet

This Weeks Helpful Reads… Week 131

 This is an ongoing series of interesting and helpful reads that I have come across on the Internet. I try to include the most helpful articles and links each week to provide the widest range of information for the home business entrepreneur.

Do These 3 Common Copywriting Mistakes Keep Your Readers From Buying? by Sonia Simone (on Copyblogger)… What if you have built a great website or blog with decent traffic but people still aren’t buying your product or service? It could be one of these common mistakes. Check it out.

Teleworking is Great. Most of the Time by Jessica McKenzie Peterson… Working at Home is not always a smooth road to hoe, sometimes there can be some bumps along the way. Jessica has listed some of the obstacles you can run into and the way she deals with those nasty bumps you may hit.

I hope you find some of these articles informational and helpful. I think they will be enjoyable reading nonetheless.

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November 2nd, 2008 at 06:21am | Posted by Joe | Weekly Helpful Reads | reader remarks | Print This Post

Working at Home Blog Carnival-109th Edition

 It seems that the Main Carnival site was down for a good part of the week, hence the abbreviated Carnival today. If you didn’t make it in time, please submit your article to the 110th Edition scheduled for next Friday.

Welcome to the October 31, 2008 edition of working at home blog carnival. This weeks Carnival has, as always, some really good articles. So, Sit Back and Enjoy.

And Here We Go…

advice

Harrison presents What Everyone Ought to Know about Starting an Online Business posted at Bridal Party Tees, saying, “This is a great resource for anyone who wants to start an online business.”

Khan presents 4 Steps To Going Freelance posted at Higher Education and Career Blog.

Mert Erkal presents Survive From Financial Crisis by Make Money Blogging | Make Money With Blogs! - Search For Blogging posted at www.searchforblogging.com, saying, “During the great depression of the 1930’s, blogging was not an alternative way to make money, but today it is. You can make regular income from blogging by 2009 if you take some serious steps from today. There are some blog mentoring programs you should consider joining in order to become a pro-blogger.”

business

Great Management presents How To Write A Brilliant Speech In Under 5 Minutes posted at The GreatManagement Blog, saying, “Many successful public speakers and presenters can make great speeches in minutes. Here’s a proven approach.”

Simon Stapleton presents Even The Idiots Amongst Us Practice Leadership When posted at Career & Personal Development for CIOs, Technical Professionals and Self-Professed Geeks, saying, “If you’re responsible for developing new leaders, or if you’re an emerging leader yourself, then don’t forget that what we learn and experience in our ‘everyday’ lives act as strong reminders that we’re all Leaders.”

AndrewB presents Successful At Home Business - The Success Secret To Home Business posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Targeted marketing is very much the key to establishing a successful at home business. In other words, targeting the market which is most likely to be responsive to receiving your offer.”

general

Anya Portnik presents On being a motivational speaker… posted at Gavin Ingham.

Greg Nemer presents Free and Low Cost Web Pages, Blogs, FTP’s and Html Editors posted at INTERNET MARKETING WITH PURPOSE, saying, “Some of the very best free and low cost tools for building web pages and blogs, editing HTML, and even a few FTP programs to upload your web pages and files”

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of working at home blog carnival using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page. If you would like to host one of my Carnivals, just use the contact form to make arrangements.

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October 31st, 2008 at 05:58am | Posted by Joe | Carnivals, Work at Home | reader remarks | Print This Post

Are Comment Spammers Slacking Off?

Probably Not…

 Last February, on Super Bowl Sunday we had a Milestone around here. We hit and soon passed 100,000 Spam Comments blocked by Akismet.

In the short post marking the occasion, I mentioned a fellow blogger who had lamented about NOT getting any spam. I assured her that it was nothing to worry about, they would soon start their attack.

In the last 8 months, Spammers had been consistent enough and as of today we are at 120,223 spam comments blocked.

BUT…

For the past week, I have only been averaging 4-5 spam comments per day. What’s up with that? It WAS 40-50 minimum daily, and often times there were multiple pages of spam a day. Not that I’m complaining, but what is going on? Did I do something to offend them (I hope) or did they lose my URL (I wish). Maybe it was something else that I’m not aware of.

Some thoughts and possibilities:

• I haven’t been posting as regularly as I’d like, there are days that I miss posting for various reasons (read excuses) and they lost interest.
• I activated the No Index feature to stop Google indexing my feeds on FeedBurner to stop Scrapers (I have since deactivated it because I lost over 100 Subscribers and they are more important than the bad guys). Could the spammers be using the same back door?
• Maybe the comment spammers run in cycles. It seems that even though they have slowed their efforts here, they have Picked Up on the MCBS Blog. I’m getting at least a page (50) spammers over there every day.
• Has Akismet finally found a way to actually block comment spam so we can’t even see it? I am not sure if I’d like that, too many Real comments get caught as spam. I want to have the option of make a determination myself.

As I said, I’m not complaining! I’m just curious as to the reason for the sudden drop off of comment spam. Have you ever noticed such a phenomenon? Any other ideas? Maybe we can find a way to beat them once and for all (yeah, right)!

October 29th, 2008 at 01:47pm | Posted by Joe | Akismet, Spam | reader remarks | Print This Post