For anyone that has a website, blog or forum that is tired of receiving hundreds of spam comments in the blog, this post is for you. Like the rest of you, we do have a large amount of spam that gets caught in our filter(We used to have to sort through about 3000 spam comments a month and now we are down to only 100 a month! ) which is great but when one day, you decide to sort all of the comments from you filter, it does take an hour or two to do it which is time that could be used for better things.

The funny thing about this is that most blogs use a “nofollow” tag on all blog comments which does not help their SEO. So the spammers are either morons or they are just hoping that your blog gets a lot of traffic and hope someone will click on their link.

The annoying part is that it if y...

A few day ago, we posted a few ads for a content writing position and we received many responses.  Some were excellent and others were not very good.

This brings me to the point of this blog entry.  How can people expect to get hired for a job if they don’t even put any efforts into applying for a job or even follow directions.

Let me give you an example.  This is what one person sent us:

Salutations,

I am a twenty-four year old Advanced University Student of English language and literature. I’ve been fond of writing for the past seven or more years and am apt at the skill...

BlindMonkeyMedia is currently looking for a new member to join our team as a writer.

We are looking for someone who can write on demand on any subject thrown at him and that can provide us with the content needed within 6hours after the request has been made(obviously, if you receive an email at 11pm we dont expect it to get it then!)

The job is a contract job that can turn into a full time job for the right candidate and for the first month, you will be asked to provide 5 to 10 articles of 500 words per week at the rate of $0.03 cent per word.

If you are interested, please email lindsay@blindmonkeymedia.com

As my team of SEO experts create quality and valuable backlinks for our clients, we noticed a trend which is concerns us in terms of the SEO industry as the backlinks that other people create are very poor in quality and have no ranking value.

We usually would not be giving out SEO back link tips but as SEO companies create bad and useless backlinks, this effects the whole industry and makes the SEO industry look like a bunch of charlatans and ripp-off artists.

SEO companies have to realize that they have a responsibility when it comes to providing SEO services as our actions is what defines us a good industry or as a bad one.

Its difficult enough getting clients that are willing to pay our rates but it makes it 100 times harder to convince a potential client to use your SEO services when ...

In the last few months, I have noticed an increase in people leaving spam comments in this blog and a few other blogs that we manage for clients. Here are my thoughts on this.

As an SEO strategy, posting in blog post is 99% of the time ineffective as most blogs have their post set so that all links in the comments area are nofollow. Unless you are trying to get SEO ranking on websites that do not care about that tag then its pretty useless in getting SEO rank.

If you still intend on working the blog comment seo strategy then first do a nofollow check and then, write an actual comment. If you just add a keyword to the blog post and a link to a sex website or a viagra site, its too obvious and its going to get deleted.

If you leave a generic comment like “nice post and check out my site at …...