WordPress anti-spam plugin: Use Spam Karma

Dealing with spam can be quite a pain for owners of WordPress blogs. If you have an active blog, sooner or later you will have to start dealing with the fact that there are various ways to generate spam, and you have to deal with this spam. Soon, you will end up with so much [...]

State your copyright policy cleanly on your blog – Use CreativeCommons.org

So, you are now starting getting aware of the grave problem where people steal content available on the internet, and display it on their own sites as their own content, without a credit link or any other way to demonstrate that it is in fact your own content. Of course, they did not ask you [...]

AntiLeech WordPress Plugin: How to protect your RSS feed from getting copied automatically

For bloggers, a RSS feed is something critically important. With a RSS feed, you can build a set of dedicated readers who get pinged everytime you generate new content, as well as be able to control how much of your post you want them to see. If users are impressed with what they read, they [...]

What to do when your Blog gets reported as a ‘Spam Blog’

I have some blogs running on the Blogger platform. One day, after logging into my Blogger dashboard, I was astonished to discover a message on my blog in the dashboard stating that updates for this blog had been disabled. After some initial shock, hand-wringing about ‘I have not done anything against Google policies’ and so [...]