Blog Comments & Spamming

By Rami Doleh

People who begin their online business ventures would naturally be unaware of many of the internet business rules, protocols and etiquettes. Yet, as in any law, the internet law does not forgive for ignorance. One of the most important issues that are governed by many controls over the internet is Spamming.

A beginner in online business can very easily fall unintentionally into the spamming trap while conducting internet marketing activity to promote his/her business.

Spamming has many faces and forms depending on the marketing activity performed. We will list the marketing activity, the possible spamming forms within each marketing activity, possible consequences and how to avoid unintentional spamming in each spamming form.

1- E-mail Campaigns: The most common spamming method is conducted through e-mail campaigns. E-mail spamming is when you send an e-mail promoting your product or service to someone who did not request any information from you. In many cases beginners fall into the trap of buying lists of e-mails from questionable sources and when sending the e-mail campaign they would realize that one of the following occurred:

a. Received direct complaints.

b. The e-mail account gets shut from the ISP or the hosting provider.

c. Contacted by internet police.

How to avoid e-mail spamming:

a. Make sure that the person who you are sending your campaign to has requested information from you or allowed you to send him e-mails.

b. When buying e-mail lists make sure that the list is safe and has allowed e-mails to be sent to them.

c. Ensure to have a statement at the end of your e-mail that would allow the recipient of your e-mail campaign to opt out if they do not wish to receive any communication from you.

2- Link Submission: Spamming in Link submission could be done in different forms but to cut the story short, you should follow the rules of each directory carefully. Among the very famous rules that are common across many link submission directories:

a. Do not submit your website link in more than one category.

b. Do not submit different pages of your website; submit only your top level link.

c. Do not submit your link more than once. Search the directory to check if your link already exists.

Failing to follow the rules of each directory would delete your link immediately at this particular directory.

3- Article Submission: Just like link directories, article directories have their own rules as well. Not complying with these rules will make those directories decline your articles. Among the most famous rules are the following:

a. Submit your own work and not somebody else’s.

b. Submit a topic that is acceptable by the directory.

c. Do not make your title all in Capital letters. Use Title Caps form.

d. Do not Bold your key words within your article.

4- Posting in Forum: Again you have to read the rules of each forum you intend to be part of before you make any posts. Among the most famous rules are the following:

a. Do not advertise your business in your posts.

b. Do not include affiliate links in your posts.

c. Follow the exact rules of the forum for your sig. file.

Failing to comply will make the forum moderators cancel your account permanently.

5- Blogging: Filling your Blog by copying other people’s articles could eliminate your account permanently with your Blog host.

6- Search Engine Related Spamming Activity:

a. Filling your site content with your keywords will be considered spamming by search engines.

b. Submitting your website to link farms will be considered spamming by search engines.

c. Adding huge amounts of content to your website while your site niche does not usually require such additions will be considered spamming by search engines.

d. Submitting your website to FFA’s could be considered as spamming by search engines.

e. Including Keywords in your Keyword tag on your website while they are not related to your website could be considered as spamming by search engines.

I hope this will help all online business beginners to avoid the spamming trap and have a smooth and successful internet marketing activity.

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Why do you need anti spam protection? Because it is the quickest way to get rid of junk email. Although every single one of us complains about spam very few people do anything about it.

But once you install anti spam protection on your computer you’ll wonder why you didn’t do it sooner. It’s not really expensive and is easy to install.

More than 40% of all e-mail today is still unsolicited sent to you by spammers. Even though the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 was supposed to eliminate spam, email spammers still send millions of unwanted email messages everyday.

Most people think spam is just annoying and delete it without thinking twice about it. But what happens if one of your children opens a spam email without you even knowing it?

Spam protection is one of the most critical components of your computers security. You need to eliminate spam as quickly as possible because just opening some of these emails can engage spyware programs and even damage your computer.

Anti spam protection tools help stop identity theft and prevent the spread of Internet viruses which often arrive inside spam attachments. But it still allows legitimate email from friends, family and co-workers to arrive safely.

Anti spam protection puts you in charge of what you want and don’t want coming into your computer. These programs are very cost effective and easy to install.

If you are ready to take back control of your Internet message Inbox and get rid of junk email, anti spam protection is the perfect solution.

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By Sean R Mize

In discussing the development of an opt in email list in this day and age at different points in this ebook, reference has also been made to the serious consequences associated with spamming. Indeed, it is very important that you do understand the negative consequences if you end up being accused of spamming and if you fail to follow the laws, rules and regulations surrounding the use of email to solicit customers or clients on the Internet and World Wide Web.

In simple terms, spamming is defined as sending unsolicited bulk or commercial email over the Internet and World Wide Web. In other words, in order to lawfully solicit on the Net through email, it is important for you to ensure that a person you end up soliciting has specifically requested that his or her name be included on an opt in emailing list. In addition, you also need to be careful to ensure that you remove someone’s name from your opt in email list once you have been requested to do so.

In this day and age there are now both civil and criminal penalities associated with spamming. In other words, if you have engaged in a particular egregious course of spamming, you could end up facing a find in an amount upwards to $6 million and you actually might end up going to jail.

In addition to the penalties becoming stiffer for spamming in this day and age, you also need to appreciate that law enforcement authorities (and civil enforcement officials) have become more aggressive in sanctioning people and businesses who are involved in spamming. You also need to appreciate that an individual who owns a business can personally be held liable for the spamming activities of his or her own business enterprise even in some situations in which he or she may not have specifically authorized the spamming endeavor.

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