I installed a WordPress for someone the other day, and when they got their first trackback spam it occurred to me that there is more to know about having a blog than installing it. Does anyone know of any beginner guides to read through on how to identify spam comments and trackbacks and other beginner blog type stuff. The kind of stuff that is fuckin’ duh for “us” but not for the 40+ set.
If nothing turns up, I’m going to write a post on it.
Thanks.
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4 Responses to “Lazyweb: Any beginner guides to blogging?”
Getting an Akismet key catches quite a bit of the spam, but lately its been letting a lot through.
http://akismet.com/ – It’s free and I believe its been made by the same people who made wordpress
I’ve also a lot of people begin to use: http://recaptcha.net
Hope these are helpful.
Have not checked it out in any detail, but remembered seeing it float through RSS. Yaro’s http://www.becomeablogger.com/
It never hurts if you share your experiences on blogging. I have been blogging for a few years but still feeling that I am in the middle of novice and intermediate.
Hoo,
You bring up a good point, and Akismet should be the #1 thing to do in a beginner guide. That said, I had already thought of Akismet and enabled it for them. I’m more thinking about how a beginner should handle their first trackback that ALMOST looks legit but isn’t. Or comment spam like “I like this post, thank you”. But is spam..
etc..