Have a Blogger account: Protect yourself from comment spam

ashish — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:57:14 +0000

Worpdress is a blogging platform that provides you the ability to extend its functionality through the use of its plugin. So, if you have a WordPress blog and want to fight the plague of comment spam, there are a number of plugins that you can use for this purpose. There is Akismet, Bad Behavior, Spam Karma 2, and other such plugins that give you the ability to block comment spam.
However, if you have a blog on Google’s Blogger platform, the ability to have such plugins is lost. There are widgets that allow extension of abilities, but the amount of flexibility you can get is reduced. For fighting Comment Spam on a Blogger blog, you need to look at the tools that Blogger itself provide. These are the following:
Controlling who can add comments: You can set such a policy on by Logging into the Blogger Dashboard, then going to Settings -> Comment, where you can select multiple options. You can select from the following:
1. Anyone – includes Anonymous Users
2. Registered Users – includes OpenID
3. Users with Google Accounts
4. Only members of this blog
These settings help control who all can comment on your blog. So if you feel that you are getting too many spam or junk comments on your blog, you can select that only Registered Users, or users with Google Accounts or even only Members of the Blog can add comments.

Further, you can even select to have comment moderation on your blogs by setting that option in the same page. You need to enter your email address, and then you can get an email whenever a new comment has been added to your blog.

Finally, you can enable a Captcha (also known as word verification)

Ad Review Center in Adsense

ashish — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:34:14 +0000

Adsense recently came out with a Ad Review Center. For a lot of people who are starting out with Adsense, or are not comfortable doing a lot of tweaking of the settings, using more such features such as the Ad Review Center only ends up complicating things. However, the Ad Review Center is actually a feature that ends up giving more options to the user who wants to have this option; for those who do not, not doing anything which is Ad Review related means that you do not have to any change at all.
Let’s read a bit more about the Ad Review Center at the following link:
The Ad Review Center is a new publisher tool that enables you to review placement-targeted ads that may appear on your pages. The Ad Review Center provides publishers with more transparency and control over placement-targeted ads appearing on their sites. You can allow or block individual ad groups and advertisers, as well as filter ads by type: text or image.
If you choose to block ads in the Ad Review Center, you’ll need to provide your reason for blocking the ad group or advertiser. This feedback, which we provide to advertisers, gives the advertisers more insight on how to adjust their ad quality, content, and relevance in order to appear on more sites.

To enable the Ad Review Center, follow these steps:
Sign in to your AdSense account.
Under the AdSense Setup tab, visit the Competitive Ad Filter page.
On that page, you’ll see a green notification box. Click the Ad Review Center link.
Read through the information about using the Ad Review Center, and continue if you’re ready to start using the feature.
Once you’ve opted in, you’ll see the Ad Review Center page appear permanently as a link under your AdSense Setup tab.
The Ad Review Center is automatically set to allow all placement-targeted ads to run on your site.
If you’d like to manually review all ads placement-targeted to your site, you may do so by clicking the update settings link toward the top of the page.
Before doing so, you may wish to learn more about manually reviewing ads.

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Ad Review Center in Adsense