Ok, another new word, scraping.  I was notified that I had comments awaiting moderation. These comments showed a small portion of my original post, including a link back to my blog.  Usually I check the website address for the comment to see if it’s legit and found that these types of comments were on a useless blog.  I couldn’t figure it out….until today.

I have made it a practice not to approve comments that don’t really add to the blog, that are blatantly bogus. I subscribe to a ton of blogs and I found this post, "One Sure Way To Stop Scrapers From Earning Off Your Blog", from Blog Content Provider.com to explain it well.

Let me know what you think by commenting below.

Goggle’s Blog Directory – This is the link I’d check first.

List of Directories

Blog Catalog

Blog Digger

Bloglines

Blog Universe

Small Business Webinar Series on Blogs and Blogging

 Monday, March 10th 6pm PT – 9pm ET

• Do you want more traffic to your website?
• Do you want to improve your search engine rankings?
• Would you like to be recognized as an expert in your industry?

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I know, you’re asking, “how’s blogging going to help me?” Those are the questions this webinar will answer for you.

• What is blogging?
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What kind of blogs do I program?

When I started talking about blogs in March 2005, I was using Blogger. In January 2007 I discovered WordPress. WordPress.com is the free WordPress site. There you can easily start your blogging adventure. However, your blogging url will be http://magicinwords.wordpress.com and you won’t have the flexibility of WordPress until you have it installed on your hosting service.

Why do I like WordPress?

I want to create passive income from the Internet. WordPress allows me the ease and flexibility of putting up a search engine friendly site that anyone can keep updated without programming skills. It’s the perfect answer to soneone who’s a solopreneur or small business owner. It’s easily customizable, has thousands of themes to choose from and, the plugins take the pain out of any task.

What are themes and plugins?

Themes are the design of the site. You might think of them as templates with unique looks. You can visit WordPress’ Theme Viewer to get an idea of the variety of themes that exist for WordPress. Themes are either one, two, three or four columns wide. The “style” can be changed through the Cascading Style Sheet. Very fun to play with!

Plugins extend the usability of WordPress. There are plugins for contact forms, surveys, tags, rss feeds, the list goes on and on . . . . Visit the WordPress Plugin page to see examples of what plugins can do for a WordPress site.

Sites I’ve Programmed with WordPress

• North San Diego Business
  
• SBS Associates
  
• Imagine Carlsbad
  
• Shirley Carolan
  
• Business Builders, Inc.
  
• Granny On The Go
  
• San Diego Women, Inc.
  
• Spirited Boutique
  
• Walters Consulting Group

Sites That Use WordPress To Manage Their Content

• Ali Lassen’s Leads Club
  
• BenchFit
  
• Vicki’s Flash Pops
  
• Chad Of All Trades

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