I have been witnessing Blog Scraping on my blog for a while. The easiest way to spot it is when you see incoming links from your wordpress dashboard and you visit the websites that are linking to you and you find your blog post, but with a completely different name as the author.

I have been thinking about an interesting method of earning commission as an affiliate marketer. The method is rather questionable, and I don`t think that I recommend doing it, but it just came to my mind and I thought I would share it with you. But first, what is spam? I am not going to even try to explain what spam is, instead I am referring to Wikipedia, and their definition of spam.

spamming is the abuse of electronic messaging systems to indiscriminately send unsolicited bulk messages.

I am a member of a great service called Spam Arrest, they totally control my inbox and I am very satisfied with them. I have only been using their service for a few months, but I can really tell the difference. Before I used so much time filtering my e-mails and finding out which ones to mark as junk and which lists to unsubscribe from and so on.

Recently I have seen a simple technique that many professional online marketers use in order to get people´s attention or maybe to prevent their e-mails to get caught in spam filters. I thought that it would be interesting to share this information with you. I am not sure if it works, but it have to be a reason why many are doing it. What I am talking about is spelling one word different. One word is all that it takes, and the word is Free.

Yesterday I installed the textual confirmation modification for my phpBB discussion forums. With the installation was a couple of questions that I could use or I could make up my own questions. The questions people registering for my discussion forums had to answer was this; are you a human or say hello. Both were kind of easy and a little stupid. So I made up my own question and I have just saved it. The question is this; Name the most popular search engine. The answer is Google (I hope that I am right on this one).

This morning I signed up for the 30-day free trial at Spam Arrest. I was a little excited to see how difficult it was to set up everything. I spent about 5 minutes to protect two of my email accounts. It was really easy, I am not sure it could be any easier. It seemed that everything was going exactly as planned, until I stumbled upon a little problem. If you are going to try Spam Arrest, don't do the same mistake as I did. Remember to add all or most of your contacts first, before you protect your email accounts.

Today I have been checking out a service that seems to be something I really need, and I should probably have started to use it for a few years ago. I get a lot of spam, but I don't have big problem regarding spam, because my spam filters do catch most of them. But I find myself going through all my junk mail to see if one or two actually got there by mistake. The reason for this is that I don't trust spam filters. At work (my dayjob), we have a great spam filter, it works so incredible good that if you write me in english it will automatically be considered as spam.

I just received a new e-mail from Jon Olson of SWAT Traffic and my spam filter caught it again. I am using Spam Assassin and if it scores more than 5 (I think that´s right) it will be considered as spam. This is what the results from spam assassin tells me about the latest e-mail from SWAT Traffic: spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=6.61, required 5, BAYES_00 0.00, GAPPY_SUBJECT 2.00, HEAD_ILLEGAL_CHARS 1.61, URIBL_OB_SURBL 3.01) I am not sure what it all means, but I am going to give it a try.

It has been several months since I signed up with a company that was going to sell and promote something unique to the world. I actually signed up before I knew what it was, I didn´t pay anything to sign up for the notification list and when I received information about the product and thought about it, and I decided that I wasn´t interested. The product was interesting, but I didn´t think that I could sell it (or at least earn money from selling it). The product was a new kind of battery charger for mobile phones and the company was called AA Turbo Charged Marketing. So, what did I do?