6 Tips on How to Build your Brand with Blogging

Well we know that, by every passing day the number of bloggers and blogs are increasing. If you are a new blogger or thinking to start a new blog, you must be afraid of competition on the internet. Almost every blogger is striving to attain maximum number of visitors on his blog. I know in this tough competition, if your blog gets even a few visitors, it would be good for your psychological happiness. So keep working hard and don�t lose your hope. In this article, we will tell you 6 tips on how to build your brand with blogging.

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How To Clean "Deadweight" Pages for SEO

Recently,

I came to know about "dead weight pages" and search a lot but didn't get a single article/guide on the topic.

In spite of this situation I got success in cleaning dead-weight (low quality) pages and blog posts from my blog.

Because I want my blog to be a groom for internet ladies (users) and for my readers.

To make it happen I've tested some tactics and now ready to write about how anyone can clean a blog by deleting, removing or editing some deadweight pages and articles.

In fact,

Making high quality, mobile friendly and search engine ready websites is not easy.

There are hundreds of key-points to check and make them flexible.

And it needs hours of hard work to create a brand-able website or blog.

Whatever, if you've already created a blog/website and trying to make that great in quality of articles and pages by taking great steps in search engine optimization.

Then don't forget to read whole guide below and make sure you've access to your blog's control panel.
Because after reading this guide you've to delete, edit or clean many pages of your blog/website.

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What's The Best Anti-Spam Plugin For WordPress?

Spam bots have become so efficient today that ordinary techniques used for spam protection such as security CAPTCHA, arithmetical problems or puzzles are no more useful when it comes to identifying the bad comments. Spam comments badly harm your blog content and ultimately your search ranking. Majority of blogs which are effected by Google penguin penalty are not serious in moderating the amount of spam links which are poor quality external links inserted through the site's comment form. This seriously harms your blog reputation and you suffer in the long run when it comes to ranking in SERPs.

 

Just recently I had been struggling hard fighting spam on two of our wordpress blogs. I had been been using Akismet Plugin to filter spam comments on my blogs but Akismet badly fails when it comes to identifying the smart spammers. Spammers who post flattery and cheesy comments such as:

Hi I love your blog content, you have shared some excellent piece of info. Thumbs up!
Hey wow, great article!
Very nice!
and so on

All these comments add no value to your blog content because they are not the least related to the content shared inside the article and make no sense at all. They surely increase your blog load time because every spam comment means that your browser needs to load an extra image avatar of the spammer, user name, email ID, website link and finally load the comment text. All of this info not only increases the work load on the browser but also effects your keyword density. All those off-topic words seriously distracts the attention of search robots from your primary keywords thus killing the essence of your content.

 

 

Akismet also does not stop spam registrations, subscriptions or contact emails, it is limited to fighting comment spam only to some extent. We needed a more robust, prompt and multi-purpose  anti-spam plugin for our wordpress sites that could not only provide comment spam protection but would also offer us useful options to stop fake registrations, emails and help us block spammers by IP/Email address, "stop words" or country name. A slight research and consultation from fellow bloggers lead me to a trustworthy anti-spam plugin developed by CleanTalk.

 

After installing the anti-spam plugin by CleanTalk, I was able to replace several different plugins such as Akismet and Captcha Plugins with CleanTalk and get much better results without sacrificing the load time. Not only are our over 4600+ comments scanned and moderated automatically on daily basis but it also helps us fight spam bots signups and contact emails. After seeing the significant improvement it has brought to our site SEO and load time, I thought of sharing this handy anti-spam plugin with all of you. The review today will focus on major features based on which we can conclude why CleanTalk Anti-Spam Plugin is the best WordPress Plugin for spam protection against fake comments, signups, contact emails and much more. 

• Read Also: Does Spam Comments Effect Website SEO?

How CleanTalk Anti-Spam Plugin Works on WordPress?

To determine the spam bots, CleanTalk uses series of tests, invisible to the visitor your website, and also checks if the message relates to the subject of the article or not. This allows providing 99.998% protection from spam bots, and you will not need to install extra protection.

1. Suppose a visitor writes a comment or registers on your WP site
2. CleanTalk plugin sends action parameters into the CleanTalk cloud
3. Service analyzes the parameters
4. If this is a visitor, the comment will surely be published. If it�s a spam bot, then CleanTalk blocks this comment or registration. That simple!

Parameters are then written to the anti-Spam log which can be viewed in the Control Panel service and users are also informed through weekly email newsletter report.
With such support one can surely turn off protection methods on website that force the user to take certain actions, such as:

• CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA,
• Questions/answers,
• Arithmetical problems, etc.

All of these methods are not only easily recognized and bypassed by bots, but also can become irritating for regular visitors.

CleanTalk prevents and automatically blocks Spam

CleanTalk is really efficient in recognizing spam. It automatically detects a spam and blocks it before it could harm your blog load time or SEO, thus allowing you to focus on building quality content instead of wasting precious hours in manually deleting the spam comments. The plugin offers multi-support against spam which includes:

1. Stops spam comments.
2. Stops spam registrations.
3. Stops spam contact emails.
4. Stops spam orders.
5. Stops spam bookings.
6. Stops spam subscriptions.
7. Stops spam in widgets.
8. Checks the existing comments for spam.

It's most interesting features include:

• SpamFireWall: Provides protection against hackers for popular attacks such as XML-RPC brute force, DDoS and more. This option allows to filter spam bots before they access your site. It also reduces CPU usage on hosting server and accelerates pages load time dramatically.
• Private Black/White lists for IP/email/IP networks - My personal Favorite!
• Blocking by countries
• Blocking by "Stop Words".

It also works just perfectly with the following plugins :

• WordPress, JetPack comments.
• WooCommerce review form.
• WordPress Landing Pages.
• BuddyPress, bbPress, S2Member, WooCommerce registrations.
• Contact form 7, JetPack Contact form, Formidable forms and so on

CleanTalk is also compatible with WordPress cache plugins

• W3 Total Cache, Quick Cache, WP Fastest Cache, Hyper Cache, WP Super cache, WP-Rocket and any other cache plugins.

How To Install CleanTalk Anti-Spam Plugin In WordPress?

Follow these easy steps to install CleanTalk Spam protection service on your wordpress blog:

1. Download CleanTalk Anti-Spam Plugin from wordpress repository.  
2. Navigate to Plugins > Add New
   
3. Click "Upload Plugin" button towards your top-left.
   
4. Locate the zip file and hit "Install Now"
   
5. Click "Activate Plugin"
6. On the next page in order to enable anti-spam protection, you will need to enter a free access key. Click "Get access key automatically button"
   
   You will also receive emails about your account activation.
   
7. Enable the "SpamFireWall" Option
   
8. Click Advanced settings links at the bottom and enable the following options:
   • Allow spam comments to be automatically deleted upon detection.
     
   • Check "collect details about browsers" option  
   You can enable other options such ass SSL and Woocommerce checkout form if you are using them else leave all options as default.
   
9. Click "Save Changes" and you are done with the installation!

CleanTalk Dashboard and Spam Analytics

Next Click the link that says "Check comments for spam" from your navbar:

This is the result I got:

All my 4678 comments were instantly scanned and 17 spam comments were detected and removed. Please note that those 17 comments were ignored by Akismet Plugin which I previously used. This shows how effective and accurate CleanTalk is in detecting and blocking spam.
You can also check users for spam to see if any of your co-author or contributor may be misusing the site in any way.

CleanTalk Helps To Block Users By Country/IP/Email

If you click the "CleanTalk Dashboard" link you will see tons of options to moderate your site comments. An AntiSpam log is updated every 3 minutes to inform you about the spam protection activity going on your site. By the time I am writing this article, several spammers from China and Russia have already started attacking my sites with spam contact emails as shown below:

AntiSpam log mentions everything about the content being blocked or approved. It will tell you the Author name, email, IP address and also show the content. Clicking the details link will show you the spam content which was posted to my Contact form:


Clicking the IP address will disclose full identity of the spammer. You can choose to blacklist the spammer by email ID, IP address or even by country name.



The Blacklist option is my personal favorite and helps me block a bulk of spammers at once using the country option. Since my content is in English, people from China and Russia are surely not my intended audience so blocking these countries could surely save me bandwidth and decrease load on servers.
The "Trends" page shows you interesting info using graphical illustration about the total number of blocked and approved/legitimate comments

On the "Spam and legitimate hits" drop down box you can see who were the Top20 spammers on your site for the last week.

Tons of more such features that you can discover for yourselves that not only helps you better moderate your blog but significantly improve its load time and SEO in long run.

How To Signup for CleanTalk Spam Protection?

CleanTalk offers a free trial for 7 days only after which it will start charging $8/year which isn't that much as compared to the quality service it provides for an entire year. I am also greatly impressed by their instant 24/7 free help and customer support. Since I have two sites, I am looking forward to upgrade my plan. Currently $8/year plan best suits our requirements.
Paying for a year of anti-spam service, you save a lot more and receive:

• Up to 99.998% protection from spam bots.
• Time and resources saving.
• More registrations/comments/visitors.
• Protection of the several websites at once in different CMS.
• Ease in installation and using.
• Traffic increase and loyalty to the users.
• 24/7 technical support.
• Clear statistics.
• No captcha (reCaptcha), puzzles, etc.
• Free mobile app to control anti-spam function on your website.

Additional features

• Daily and weekly detailed anti-spam reports: traffic VS spam.
• Apps for iPhone, Android to control anti-spam service, comments, signups, contacts, traffic and spam statistics for the last 7 days.
• AntiSpam apps for most popular CMS on cleantalk.org.

How Do You Protect Your Sites From Spam?

I am sure spam is a headache for us all. I have shared my experience of Akismet and CleanTalk. Please share your precious views on both of them and have you tried CleanTalk yet?

 

Can you image how much spam I used to receive through my Wordpress site's contact form alone? See the Gmail screenshot below and imagine how at piece would I be today? =)

CleanTalk Anti-Spam Plugin Review
Published	Sep 22, 2016
Summary	CleanTalk Anti-Spam Plugin is the best WordPress Plugin for spam protection against fake comments, signups, contact emails and much more.
Reviewer	Mohammad Mustafa Ahmedzai
Publisher	My Blogger Tricks
Ratings	5/5

10 Tips: How to Write and Engage Your Readers with Your Website Content

It doesn�t matter how well you advertise, or how good you are at pulling people in.

If your content isn�t up to scratch, you�re not going to get very far. Fortunately, just because your content doesn�t yet zing right now doesn�t mean you can�t make it zing.

After all, writing is a skill � which means that, like any other, if you practice you will get better.

Rather than just blindly trying things, however, there are certain tips and tricks that will certainly help you make your content better.

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How to Add Web Push Notifications in Blogger Blog

Have you seen the web push notifications on popular websites like Facebook, Pinterest, etc.? Web push notifications are becoming widely popular because they provided a better way of reaching your subscribers. Recently, one of our users asked us about how to add web push notification in Blogger. And the answer is yes, why not. Today in this article, we will show you how to add web push notification in your Blogger Blog.

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Blogger vs. WordPress - Which is Better for Blogging?

Starting your own blog can be a difficult at confusing task without ample amounts of knowledge. In recent times, technology has enabled us to use so many platforms for creating and maintaining blogs that it becomes difficult to pick one. Among bloggers, one of the most famous comparisons is Blogger vs. WordPress. Both Blogger and WordPress are mostly used as text based blogs and offer a different set of designs and features. Here is a comprehensive comparison between both of the blogging platforms.In short, we will show you Blogger vs WordPress - which is better for blogging?

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32 Experts Revealing Their Secret SEO Techniques

So!

Here we are ready to show you the exact secret techniques of bloggers and search engine experts by this most awaited roundup blog post.

This is our first roundup and we hope this will help you in SEO and ranking your websites or blogs.

Don't forget to read it carefully and read all views, tips, ways and secrets to know what professionals are doing and how they are generating tons of visits for their blogs.

If you really wants to make more out of your online work then read below and don't forget to share it and bookmark it too.

Now without wasting your time, read the big SEO experts roundup.

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15 Questions and Answers for the Novice Bloggers

Blogging sounds easy: just write something and put it on a website, and make money.

But if you want to take it seriously�if you want to do it long term, or do it for a living�it�s a bit more complicated than that.

So complicated, in the fact that the Internet is full of advice for how to do it right.

If you�re just getting started, it�s hard to know where to begin.

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Video Content: What Place It Should Take in Your Blog

Recently, the use of video content has become a significant icon in content marketing.

Video content is associated with many advantages, some of which include giving a compelling touch to your articles, making your content real and catching audience�s attention to look into your art.

Embracing this blessing therefore adds a pulse to your work and you are guaranteed to shine in your content marketing.

However, video content should not dominate the whole of your text. It�s only a way of backing up your content, nevertheless using it wholly will be confusing to audience and won�t get what you are trying to communicate.

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10 Best Blogger Templates of 2017

Every blog needs a good design and every good design needs a Good developer, which would cost a lot. Luckily, Blogger provides both free and paid templates that are not only highly professional but also takes care of the other technical things like SEO friendly, Responsive, Ads Friends and more. Today in this article, we will show you 10 best blogger templates of 2017.

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Significant Roles of Websites for Checking Google Keyword Rankings

Checking Google Keyword Rankings ? is an important part of website promotion.

SEO professionals used to check the rankings of their promoting website and it helps them to evaluate their performance.

Keyword rank checking is the most common thing carried out by SEO professionals and bloggers.

They do it with the purpose of making sure if they are appearing on the Google search results for the keyword that they would like to appear for.

In general, there are tons of tools to check your website and keyword ranking effortlessly and swiftly such as Top 10 sites to check Google keyword rankings include:

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