Like many bloggers I use the best Anti-Spam WordPress Plugin, Akismet. Akismet grabs most of the spam but we still need to scan the filtered spam just in case a legitimate comment is in there. I don’t know why but it bothers me more when I get comment spam from an idiot site or affiliate promoter than when I get hit by the spam bots but it does.

Back in June 2006 I setup LowLifeSpammer.com as a place to re-direct spammer’s URLs as a joke. It worked great for blogs and forums. I don’t know how effective it was but I had fun with it. Every now and then I would approve a spam comment but not until I changed the spammers website link to LowLifeSpammer.com. I didn’t do it too often because it would look as if I were trying to inflate the blog post comment numbers. Eventually I dropped the site when cutting back my work load.

Well, back by popular demand, kind of (New Comment Policy – You Want To Read This), I have resurrected LowLifeSpammer.com. It’s just a simple one page site where blog and forum owners can change their comment spam links to. Just to make a point or to have a little fun. It’s great to fight back a little.

Just a couple of notes: First, please be absolutely sure it is blog comment spam or forum post spam before editing the URL. Second, I recommend updating your Comment Policy to help cover yourself legally. Be sure you inform potential commenters that you reserve the right to edit the comment and/or links.

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As the number of blogs increase it becomes more and more difficult to know what a site’s intent is. Is it just personal opinion, are you running a business, are your posts simply advertisements for product sales or is it a mixture of everything above? None of the answers are wrong, it’s just nice to let your readers know about the things that influence your blogging.

Truthfully, most visitors wont be interested in your disclosure policy but for those that are it’s easy to generate one. I had our disclosure policy up in minutes with the Disclosure Policy Generator by DisclosurePolicy.org. Answer a few questions and you’re just clicks away from a professional Disclosure Policy.

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Like many of you I spend a large portion of my life online. I’m a blogging addict, run many websites, pay my bills online and even do my shopping on the net. I’d date there if I wasn’t already married, sorry ladies, twenty five years! ;o)

Out of the hundreds of products and thousands of dollars I’ve spent over the years every once in a blue moon I find a product worth writing about. That’s exactly what I found when I dropped almost a hundred dollars for the WordPress Dream Theme by Ben Cope back in March.

The Extreme Ezine is well into it’s sixth year and it is by far my most prized site. It means a lot to me so when I decided to convert it to blog format I wanted the best. I spent a lot of time searching and looking for a WordPress blog theme trying to find the one best suited for my needs and worthy of my pride and joy. I’m being very serious when I say price was not an issue. I’m not loaded with money but I was perfectly willing to spend several hundred dollars if that’s what it took for the perfect match.

When I came across Ben’s WordPress Dream Theme I knew I had a serious candidate. The WordPress Dream Theme had everything I was looking for. It’s widget-enabled, beautiful layout with thumbnail images and even had a featured post section. Ben has added built-in banner and ad areas and as an extra bonus he even added an area for feeds from other sites.

The WordPress Dream Theme is very easily customized. I have very little experience with blog themes and I was able to make my blog very appealing and unique.

Here’s what put the WordPress Dream Theme over the top for me. – Availability and reputation! Ben is not hiding from customer contact. On Ben’s website you will find a contact form and phone number. This is important to me. When I needed a little assistance setting up the RSS feeds section I sent an email using Ben’s online form and he answered very quickly. That same day I had the feeds up and running smoothly.

I recently decided to upgrade the theme by adding a rotating featured post section. I emailed Ben asking if it was possible. The next day I had exactly what I was looking for at a very low price. That kind of service is worth writing about.

BTW, Ben does have an affiliate program but that’s not why I’m sharing this story. I just want you to know how happy I am with this purchase. I have not used my affiliate link to prove it!

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