Leaving your comments on various blogs can be an excellent way to develop some backlinks, especially if you make it into the top commentators list. However instead of leaving useful comment and actually contributing to the blog, many webmasters make the mistake of going wild and pretty much just spamming every blog they see. As a result their comments get marked as spam. This means that in most cases Akismet (spam filter many popular blog platforms run) will book you as a spammer and all your future comments will end up filtered out. In other words you will never be able to comment with the same url again.
Because we do make mistakes, you have another chance. Simply contact Akismet guys and tell them that you regularly comment on various blogs and it looks like somebody has marked you as a spammer. Make sure you give them all the details eg. url you use. They should give you another chance. Just don’t mess it up again 
Hope this helps all the guys who’s legitimate comments I have just dug out from my spam folder.
When you launch a website for the first time you tend to spend a lot of time working on it in order to give it that crucial kick start. A few months later when you can see your efforts paying off you tend to relax a little bit. Then your traffic will start dying out and you will be left with the feeling of all your effort going to waste. This really does not help your motivation. The picture bellow pretty much describes me in the last few weeks.
I was being lazy, therefore its time for me to get back to work starting with this blog. I would love to increase the volume of blog posts but I guess I would rather see quality than quantity. What do you think guys?
Whenever I see a page that clearly violates Google AdSense TOS I tend to ignore it. To me, I’m better of working on my own websites rather than going around grassing people up. A friend of mine on the other hand is a big AdWords advertiser and he can’t stand people getting away with click fraud, which is more than understandable.
One day he ended up on some website that asked people to click on their AdSense ads. Outraged, he contacted the AdSense advertisers who appeared on these ads by entering the url in his browser and informed them about the click fraud. Advertisers in their turn thanked him for the warning and went ahead to complain to Google and ask for a refund. Turns out one of the guys has actually lost thousands of dollars with that particular campaign. Soon they have received a full refund from Google. A friend of mine was then contacted by one of these guys and was offered $1000 as a thank you for saving the company a lot of money.
Apparently a few guys go around doing this full time and earn good money. I assume they are a bit more shameless and actually as for that “thank you”.
I thought I would celebrate my Google PR penalty (Went from 3 to 2, I guess they don’t like all the blackhat stuff I talk about) with another money making method I actually use at the moment to generate some spare cash.
Imagine that you desperately need to download a certain file. Maybe some sort of game or even a movie that has just came out. You then go on Yahoo answers and ask the following question: “Where can I download the new batman film?”. I then come along and say:”Here is your download link. Have fun! Its a good film.”
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Whenever I get stuck for ideas I like to check out other established websites being sold on various webmaster markets. For example Sitepoint or Digital Point. This is probably the only time a webmaster is willing to share his revenue, traffic and other details with you. When you find an interesting niche or a website idea don’t hesitate to ask the seller a few questions. Ask them how they got where they are now and what promotion methods worked best. In most cases you should get a honest response. Now if you really lack creativity you can simply go and recreate the same idea. I prefer to stand out from the rest so I always add a little twist. At the end of the day an original website idea will pretty much promote itself.
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