Pinoy Blogger, tagged as spammer by Akismet
Originally posted at ConradMiguel.com.
Some Pinoy bloggers are familiar with the leap day (February 29) incident when kuya Jehz BlogSpot blog was locked by Google after getting a spam blog status, right? Now, another Pinoy blogger was tagged as a spammer, not by Google but by Akismet.
Akismet Spam Filter tagged a Pinoy Blogger, Gerwin of Simpleng Tao as a spammer. We (Gerwin and I, Conrad Miguel E. Gozalo) discovered his “spammer†status after trying to comment in my blog last Sunday.
His comment failed to appear on my post page and reported it to me. At first, I tried to check my fresh self-coded and designed WordPress theme. There was no problem with the code though, since other people had the chance to comment. Then I checked my blog’s commentator blacklist, but still not listed. So I resorted on checking my Akismet spam comments and his comment was there together with other pornographic spam comments.
Until now, he still can’t understand why he was banned.
Drawbacks of Bad Posts
Originally posted at Build that Geek.
Waaa, I’ve been a bad blogger lately. It’s been a long time ago since I posted a good post. I promise to post a good post soon. I have tons of postables posts on Draft mode, I hope I can have time to finish them soon.
Ooops, how about making this post a good post? Nice idea. Just changed the title of this post from “This Blog Needs Good Post” to “Drawbacks of Bad Posts”, FYI.
First, I have to define bad posts on my own unhumble (haha) words. Bad posts are:
- sponsored review posts. Why? Paid reviews are usually sugarcoated posts (in kuya Blogie’s terms). Most of the reviewers doesn’t even have a first-hand exposure to the service or the product.
- posts made just to drive traffic (SEOing for traffic). I’ve created a lot of them: the UPCAT, DLSUCET, ACET and MSU-SASE posts. Even though they’re almost worthless except for the results page link, they generate a lot of hits anyway.
I must admit that at least 10 of my previous posts fit my own definition of a bad post (ang labo ko!). Here are the drawbacks of having crappy posts one after another (based on my own experience):
- Sudden decrease in average visit length. Uhm, it’s obvious. No one would care to stay long to a blog with crap posts.
- Drop of feed subscribers. I used to have 30+ feed subscribers on weekends. When I started posting bad posts, it decreased to 20+. Huhuhu.
Drawbacks of Bad Posts
Originally posted at Build that Geek.
Waaa, I’ve been a bad blogger lately. It’s been a long time ago since I posted a good post. I promise to post a good post soon. I have tons of postables posts on Draft mode, I hope I can have time to finish them soon.
Ooops, how about making this post a good post? Nice idea. Just changed the title of this post from “This Blog Needs Good Post” to “Drawbacks of Bad Posts”, FYI.
First, I have to define bad posts on my own unhumble (haha) words. Bad posts are:
- sponsored review posts. Why? Paid reviews are usually sugarcoated posts (in kuya Blogie’s terms). Most of the reviewers doesn’t even have a first-hand exposure to the service or the product.
- posts made just to drive traffic (SEOing for traffic). I’ve created a lot of them: the UPCAT, DLSUCET, ACET and MSU-SASE posts. Even though they’re almost worthless except for the results page link, they generate a lot of hits anyway.
I must admit that at least 10 of my previous posts fit my own definition of a bad post (ang labo ko!). Here are the drawbacks of having crappy posts one after another (based on my own experience):
- Sudden decrease in average visit length. Uhm, it’s obvious. No one would care to stay long to a blog with crap posts.
- Drop of feed subscribers. I used to have 30+ feed subscribers on weekends. When I started posting bad posts, it decreased to 20+. Huhuhu.
StumbleUpon Traffic = Bad Traffic
Originally posted on my blog, Build that Geek. [original post] I recommend commenting through the original post.
I have been using StumbleUpon to promote my blog for three months now. It’s giving me traffic more than any other this-type-of-programs in the Internet. But why do I call it bad traffic?
- It gives you a lot of untargeted traffic. You may notice in your analytics tool that there has been more than 20 entries from StumbleUpon in a minute for your first minutes. That’s approximately one (1) visit every three (3) seconds from a computer. Care to waste your precious bandwidth with a bot?
- StumbleUpon visitors doesn’t comment. They tend to just read your stuff, then press the Stumble button (to go to another page).
- They don’t read your ads. Why would they care if they can find more relevant interesting stuff in just a click of a button? [Lower CTR]
Still not convinced? Then try making your own list! Hahaha.
But I’m still very grateful to StumbleUpon, they gave me this paradigm “pageviews are just numbers, what matters most are loyal visitors”.
Maraming Wika, Matatag na Bansa
Noong una kong marinig ang temang “Maraming Wika, Matatag na Bansa” ay naguluhan na agad ako. Paano ba naman magiging matatag ang isang bansa kung sa wika palang ay wala ng pagkakakaisa. Inisip kong maaring nagkamali lang ako ng dinig. Ilang saglit pa ay napaisip ako muli. Hindi ba talaga tayo pwedeng maging matatag sa likod ng mapait na katotohanang hindi tayo nagkakaisa sa isang wika? Kung noo’y ito ang ating sinisisi sa ating mabagal nating pag-unlad, hindi ba natin itong pwede gawing instrumento sa pag-unlad? Mahirap naman sigurong ibalewala ang ilan sa mga wikang ito sapagkat naging bahagi na ito ng ating kultura. Para sa akin, tila bang “parinig” o “tawag” ang dating nito. Parinig na hindi raw naririnig ng mga nagbibingihan; parinig na dapat aksyunan ng natatamaan.
