Sell A Blog for $9500 and Get 9500 Spams!

Posted on March 25, 2009 by Melvin

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Sly Blanco, the famous dude who sold his blog for $9500 has been having his new blog beaten, swallowed, shove in the ass, destroyed, bludgeoned, attacked by spambots. Look:

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And John has been his loyal reader commentator.

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I am pretty much sure Sly’s really taking his time with the huge chunk of almost $10,000 that he got from his previous blog. So as the spams, taking their sweet time turning his blog to a splog.

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fas

- 25th Mar, 09 07:03pm

Looks like he forgot to install Aksimet.

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Klajdi Hena

- 25th Mar, 09 07:03pm

Hello Melvin!

Damn, I saw his posts, and they all are filled with spams.

It really sucks for him.

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Melvin Reply:
March 28th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
makes me wonder how he sold his blog for that high, no offense… =p

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Splendid Kid

- 26th Mar, 09 04:03am

Even, slyvisions.com got so many comment spams..

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Pradeep

- 26th Mar, 09 06:03am

Why did he forget to install the aksimet???These spam comments sucks a lot of energy

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KushMoney

- 26th Mar, 09 12:03pm

I forgot to install aksimet one time but at least I didn’t let comments post instantly. He will have a lot of work on his hands cleaning that blog up.

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Best CSS Gallery

- 26th Mar, 09 01:03pm

The guy will have to spend quite a time clearing his blog from all that spam

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Agent 001

- 26th Mar, 09 06:03pm

Thats bad for him. I am also being targeted by Spammers. I have already got 700 spams in less than 3 months but askimet stops them. Askimet saves my day.

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Melvin Reply:
March 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
in my case akismet does hand out a lot of false positives which is annoyinh

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Harish

- 27th Mar, 09 06:03am

I wonder even akismet could not contral them. Huh ! great melvin your rightly said it as splog HA HA …. so sad of the sly guy

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Paul U

- 27th Mar, 09 02:03pm

Good thing that I have already installed Akismet prior to writing some articles on it.

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Desmond - DesmondBlog.com

- 28th Mar, 09 06:03am

DesmondBlog received 50 spam comments (that fall into moderation section) over the last week.

I hate spammers.

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Rich

- 29th Mar, 09 05:03am

I think he should stop selling blogs…lol!

Anyway, I cannot see the connection between his sold out blog and the spam on his new blog.

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Melvin Reply:
March 29th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
dude the title is just the result of the creativity of my mind. And creativity doesn’t really mean it has connections.. =p

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Corey Freeman

- 30th Mar, 09 12:03am

That guy should definitely invest in some kind of spam protection, askimet or non. Askimet seems to give me a bunch of false negatives on my new blog though…which is kind of irritating.

The title is kind of misleading, creative, but it would have been interesting if the amount of money and the amount of spam had actually been related. Otherwise, it doesn’t really make any sense.

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Salwa Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 1:14 am
I second that Corey. He should definitely invest in spam protection.

Askimet for me takes care most of my spam problems.

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Paul U

- 30th Mar, 09 02:03pm

Just curious on how did you know that he gets 9500 spam?

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KushMoney Reply:
March 30th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
It’s just an title to get people to read the post.

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Bendz

- 30th Mar, 09 02:03pm

Without spam protection blogging is very risk. In my site,
Insurance also, I’m getting a lot of spam comments
The spam protection is done by the askimet plug in.

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Ajith Edassery

- 31st Mar, 09 04:03pm

That’s what happens if one leaves his blog unattended for a few days (forget months as in Sly’s case). I was away for 12 days and I had so many spam comments off which I removed a few manually.

The worst thing was that, I was marked a spammer by a smart chap and all my comments on other blogs were getting caught by akismet (Probably it’s still not fixed and even this might go to the spam folder)

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Tnomeralc Web Design Toys

- 2nd Apr, 09 06:04am

This just means you need to update whatever possible plugins you may get for your blog. It was an issue of protection and part negligence, in my opinion.

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thom

- 3rd Apr, 09 11:04am

Wew..
9500 spams???

Aaaaarrgh..
Can’t imagine if I got it into my blog.

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Louver

- 3rd Apr, 09 07:04pm

Where’s his Akismet or something???

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Syed Balkhi

- 6th Apr, 09 07:04pm

I receive around 300 – 500 spams every day on Balkhis but Akismet helps a lot.

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Ajith Edassery Reply:
April 8th, 2009 at 7:30 am
…and I am a victim of that. Some of my genuine comments never appeared – thanks to some spammer who impersonated me.

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Om

- 13th Apr, 09 07:04am

Doesn’t like moderating comments for sure. Even appears sort of careless in noticing the same. Even after installing the spam protection plug-in, you always have to then manually approve comments in order to be 100% sure that there are no spamming further in the comments.

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Ships

- 17th Apr, 09 10:04am

I sold my website (not blog) for 9000 USD, and this was great success for me. But people did not got the users database, because I protected my readers from spams. This is very important to keep Confidence in the readers.

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- 27th Apr, 09 01:04pm

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infopediaonlinehere

- 8th Mar, 10 10:03pm

Spammers are eternal…beware of spammers
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