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Akismet Issue – Banning People

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Is Akismet down?

Did they close the servers?

Well something is wrong. My site and a few other people’s sites are banning people. it’s almost as if akismet is banning huge i.p. ranges or internet service providers. I had an issue a few months back. It seems it is happening again. I am not mad at anyone. I completely appreciate everything they have done. It does though seem like I should just turn it off in my plug-ins and all of my posts might have to have the comments turned off . Really it seems like I never used the thing anyway. I personally have decided to not accept probably 200 times the amount of messages that Akismet did not block. No i do not ban them, I just decide to not accept spammy ones.

Here is a quote from the Forums I posted my request in

all of my powweb accounts are showing this again
“Akismet has detected a problem. A server or network problem is preventing Akismet from working correctly. Click here for more information about how to fix the problem.”

Last time that was showing, there was an issue . It took a few days for people to come together and note it was not each of our individual fault/issue.
I didnt log into any of my sites for like 3 days, i logged in and saw that.. It has now been three days since I first saw it. So I am assuming no one has caught it again.

Just a heads up to the techies. if it turns out to be something on my end. Let me know.
http://www.truxter.org
http://www.truxtertech.com
http://www.truxtertech.com/news

Not to say it is actually teh same issue, but I could suggest that something else happened when they updated to accommodate the issue I WAS having. It all seemed to start with  the latest WordPress update.

There is a link in  “Is Akismet down?” that shows how to resolve some of the issue. Maybe it will help you.

An SEO Person to Learn From

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I thought I knew everything about search engine optimization, until I met Alicia Crowder. This lady schooled me in a flash.

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Kinda made me feel inadequate when I started reading her site for all of the tips she has on how to get seen in google for categories I want to fall under. I have been trying to pick her brain a bit over the last week or so, I mean come on this lady knows her stuff. She seems to be picking back from time to time, but I know I have been all over her sites. Her recent post on her seo tips site seems to nail out exactly what she does.

I follow her on twitter to get fresh updates. but I really try and not let her know of my sites to crawl and critique, it would slaughter my ego lol.

She does offer a service where she will do the  work for you, but she also has tons and tons of free information on her sites. I actually have no products to market so I just use her free advice and tips to get  an idea of what I need to tweak here and there to get my content read.

Running like 6 or seven sites I feel like I am a know it all. but really I do not. but hey, who does ?

I have been using her tips for about a week now and I have seen some real changes. a big hats off to Alicia and her SEO tips.

Liberty Names Of America, Mail Scam?

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I received this mail from liberty Names of America , also known as lnoa
The mail goes like this:

As a courtesy we would like to remind you that it is time to renew your domain name which is expiring soon. Failure to renew your domain will result in losing exclusive rights to it on the web and losing access to your online presence. By moving your domain to Liberty Names Of America, you can take advantage of the savings we have to offer. Your renewal will start from the day your domain name expires, even th you are signing up months earlier.

It goes on to shoot prices at me for my domain name. Saying that truxtertech.com will go for one year at $29 , two years at $49 and five years at $94.
I can not help but laugh in disgust. I pay 6.99 a year through netfirms for one of my other domain names. I could switch my domain myself for $150 for 10 years at bravenet.com
The people I am registered through for this current domain name is powweb.com I pay $94 a year for unlimited storage space and bandwidth, unlimited email accounts, 75 mysql databases and the domain name is free. My bill is automatically charged to my account before expiration. They can’t help lower my costs any. Why would I want to even consider Liberty Names ? They make it clear that they are not forcing me to re-up on my domain name. But the mail does look like it would be scary to someone who is new to this planet. Not that this an advertisement but hey, if you register through powweb, Let them know you read about their deal from me, I get a kick back from that stuff and it would help out a whole lot.

Well just a heads up to anyone who is doing a search in google for that dang company. They are not the registrants of your domain …. yet, So you might want to head back to where you first bought that domain and pay up. some companies might squat on it and turn it into a spam site. I lost truxter.org that way years ago. Bought it late last year and it has been a hard battle to get it back into search engines.
Is Liberty Names Of America a Scam ? I dunno, but their prices are far out of my reach.
Here’s what other’s think
Search That’s to see rip off Claims
This is to see people calling them a scam.
Others saying they are overpriced

What is a good webhosting service?

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I’m happy with my current host, and about to recommend a friend there.
but i am wondering what company gives the least amount of frustration?
bluehost?
justhost?
powweb?

I do plan to use php and mysql while working on their site for them.
so please any and all information is good.
Should I get justhost? all the sites say it’s great, but all the blogs and forums say it’s only a year old and a rip off. but i do not know. what do you think of justhost,bluehost,powweb ?
something other?
comments section is wide open you do not have to create an account to comment.

like this site says they are wonderful (read closely)
and they teach you how to search the internet to see if they “suck”
but I tried to search for something else
I found this when I searched “Scam”

Of course I found this when I followed their rules

But then again, we are talking about a tech community. Techies do pick and peck at all details, especially when worrying about income and monetizing the internet’s activity.

So people, tell what is good
Bang for buck, what is the best hosting plan
I personally Like Powweb, They seem to have the lowest cost and most options.

Working on Site for Fire Alarm Company in Houston

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Busy day, Worked on site for a Houston Fire Alarm Company.

current location is hfdc.net
Section I am working on a temp directory to be moved to the front soon.
hfdc.net/html

Worked on it for a little while. Meanwhile the partner in this job
did a few things I do not like, I mean along the lines of indexing and google.
He had to duplicate like 20 pages and name them differently. The content
isn’t there but the skeleton is. During the time he was working on the site
I made a funny section just for him hfdc.net/greg .
I just jerked around with what he was doing with the site.
See the cool thing is we started working on this site while we worked on the flash site.
it was just to make a site completely out of html and make it weigh less than the flash site
and look as good.
The owner of the company loved the flash site. but as one of us worked on the flash version, we passed around the html version just for kicks. I will go back and fix every single page for indexing
with google bot/yahoo slurp/msn untill I am sure we can keep first slot for that site. I of course worked it so that if you did a search for “fire alarm Houston” the flash site was in first page. If you did a search for “fire detection Houston” the flash site was in first spot of unpaid links. No I did not do anything that would cause rejection by any of the bot programs. I worked really hard on that. Sooo to keep from twitching while my partner was doing what he was doing, I started working on a third page just for giggles. When he saw the directory name and file names, he acted spooked. LOL I love it, it was all in good humor.
Those pages will never see the business world.

Web Page Creator

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Ok So I was sent to office depot 5 minutes before lunch started. I decided to swing by the burger place and get some lunch before I go in, and just waste an hour and 15 minutes for lunch instead of my regular hour lunch. I went in to Office depot and gathered all the things I needed into a buggy (office supply junk, paper pens toner ink) and walk in circles for a few minutes. While walking in circles and getting followed around by the depot snipers ( not sure they thought I was shop lifting, so i picked up stuff and would misplace it like crazy) I stumbled on the $9 software bin. While rooting around I saw a “buy one get one free” sign. So I decided to dig around and make sure I find something. Well I found a web page design thingy disk. I pretty much knew it would be crap because it’s price and the fact that the makers say nothing about it’s form or style. Like css,html javascript. Nothing just says something about templates.
The product is made by a company named Cosmi, the product name is “WEB PAGE CREATOR”. there is a circle stamp on the front with a symbol that says “#1” and some stuff in tiny freaking print though I can make out the work “productivity” . Well I scanned it with asquared,virscan.org, norton anti vir and found no reason to freak out.
So today I finally install the software. The actual software they are selling is all of about 10 megs of software, the rest, well, the rest is a 2002 version of open office.
The software they created (I think they created or just downloaded from some poor joke’s website) is just a shell script hand full of short cut links to open office items but named differently in the program. Don’t worry, when the open office items open up they do show their names at the top of the program’s window.
Well My True honest opinion, as far as web design goes, you can do everything this software bundle can do, Simply by using netscape navigator 7.2 suite edition. ns 7.2 suite comes with a program called “composer” and well, you can do the whole “what you see is what you get” web design part of using a program just like you can with cosmi’s erm, uh, java sun system’s? open office program.
plus netscape 7.2 s does not come with netzero crapware like this program does..

My call?
Walk past this thing, sure waste of ten bucks.

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