In the last two years online spam has increased exponentially. Until a few months ago, I used to get a 1:1 ratio of spam messages relative to personalized messages, addressed to me. Somehow, when I post comments on external sites or list an email address online like at the LinkedIN OpenNetworker Group, these email ids tend to attract “lottery winnings”, “15M transfer to my bank account”, “great stock picks” and the many other mails not worth mentioning.

While I had contained my email spam problem, recently someone asked me how I manage Drupal comment Spam, as they got 45 spam messages over a few minutes. It is a fact, as your blog ages, you attract higher spam comments. She was expecting me to solve her problem, when I told her that I use a sophisticated Drupal SPAM module and I then moderate the comments.

Almost once a month I get question on RSS, what it is, how to read rss feeds and should I use rss. This blog answers this question. First let’s start with what it is:

This a $700 dollar video! I got an email from a reader of SeoEcom that she had a quote of $700 to add an email subscription to her drupal blog site. If you can follow along to this video, you can learn how to

After two months of giving Blogrush a full chance on my site, placing it above the fold as recommended, I have joined the ranks of Court and others who have given it the boot. I will explain the rationale and how this could possibly work for you, and its drawbacks.

Gone are the good old days for Microsoft where they could just buy competitors and dominate the market. Remember how Foxpro was acquired by Microsoft and at that time FoxPro was superior to Microsoft Access. Now Foxpro doesn’t exist any more, perhaps some legacy databases exist some where, that’s it. Since the Microsoft’s anti competitive practices case, Microsoft has become near extinct with Google online domination of search and online properties, until now.

Most would have seen this coming after the purchase of Urchin by Google, it is time to brand the urchin product as Google, wipe every trace of Urchin. What is changing? Everything, Should you change? Well you have till December 2008. First off, let’s look at what the change is, its benefits, how to make the change and how to confirm everything is well, which is the scope of this article.

Over the Christmas holidays I chose to add a video to our home page, that describes the benefits from a training course I developed – called the Online Business Blueprint. I decided to jump on PowerPoint and convert the PowerPoint video to flash and later uploaded it to Youtube. Kathy, however, didn’t think much of my video creation skills and insisted that I get it redone. There are many comments on the web around having home made videos as opposed to professional ones.

A question that we often come across often from our clients is this: Do we use Salesforce.com as our Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool or use Sugar CRM (which is an open source tool with similar functions).  While many have heard about Salesforce, less have heard about Sugar CRM. Many may even ask why use a CRM?

The benefits of using a CRM solution are – enhanced productivity, reduced costs, increased revenue, improved customer acquisition, service, satisfaction and retention.

Google has been cracking down on paid link building and penalizing sites engaging in selling links with a PR drop. The latest PR update appears just to be a PR drop for many sites, which is bound to have some influence on search results. Here is the list of sites from seomoz