Every now and then, a blogger might need to take a break from blogging. If it is a short break, posts can be scheduled in advance. But sometimes, this isn’t possible. So, what happens to your blog when you stop blogging?

Blog spam has gotten smarter. It looks just like real comments and it is often undetectable by anti-spam plugins. So how can you beat it?

When you write a blog online, your posts can be read by anyone with an internet connection. And now, with free on-demand translation services, language is no longer a barrier. This is great news for those of us who are looking for more visitors, but this also creates a few important privacy and safety concerns.

The Top Commentator WordPress plugin is very popular both for increasing comments and rewarding faithful visitors. But there are some negative things about it as well, which have caused many bloggers to remove it from their blogs. So we ask the question: “Is The Top Commentator Plugin Worth It?”.

One thing that many webmasters don’t know is that by participating in link exchanges, you could be hurting your search engine rankings. Read what Google says about link exchanges.

Most of us rely on Google for the bulk of our traffic and the success of our websites. So if we wake up one day to find that Google has all but stopped sending traffic our way, it is cause for panic and immediate action.

The Akismet anti-spam system is one of the most handy tools for automatically detecting spammy comments. However, we have found that it doesn’t work as well as it should. In fact, you might find yourself victim of an Akismet attack and have all of your comments regarded as SPAM. It happened to us!

If you thought Akismet couldn’t get any better, it just did! In its most recent release, it introduced detailed comment and spam statistics.