Is This Comment WordPress Spam? How Do I Stop It From Happening?

February 19, 2012 · 1 comment

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Have you been getting WordPress spam lately?  Here is some of the current junk getting through AKISMET.  Granted, I do SEO work, so maybe some of these little sneaky backlinkers are spamming up my stuff since it is a do-follow w/the comments and I stop giving them work? Are backlinks worth it?  I’ve put them [...]

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Answering Keyword Questions. What is your target audience

February 4, 2012 · 0 comments

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How to Figure out your Audience and Answer Their Questions This post is addressing how to figure out your target market.  So let’s take a look @ some recent stats.  As you can see, I’ve got some searches for things like OptimizePress, wptouch ecommerce, optimizepress banner, companies like adsense.  Why?  Because The Iris City focuses [...]

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How To Make An OptimizePress Banner

01.21.2012

If you’re reading this, I assume you are working in OptimizePress, and are attemting to create a banner for either the 977 px. width, or the banner for the wide sales style pages. If you make a banner smaller than 977, it will not display properly (it will tab over, like a duplicate splice at [...]

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Email Marketing Strategies

01.21.2012

written by: nixwebo from iwriter.com There is no doubt that email marketing is one of the most popular and powerful forms of online marketing ever. Using the email marketing tips in this article will help you further understand how to utilize this powerful and affordable marketing method in your own business. Just check out the [...]

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Having Comment Luv Does Not Mean I Publish Spam Posts!

01.15.2012

Halt!  If you’ve come to this blog to get some dofollow juice, don’t count if you’re a blantent spammer.  Sure, Akismet doesn’t pick up on all spam, but I will not publish any comments where the publisher is only trying to get a backlink.  Go spam up some other blog. Thanks! Molly.

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How To Make An Email Marketing Launch – OptimizePress Launch

01.12.2012

Are you curious as to how you can increase your sales and market your product? Why don’t you start out with a general email campaign, built by OptimizePress and using Aweber. There is two parts to this process.  The first is the initial launch (which is what we are talking about here), in which you [...]

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Interview With Steve Smith From Weever Apps

12.28.2011

The Iris City got the chance to interview Steve Smith, who works in marketing with Weever Apps. Weever Apps twitter.com/weeverapps   Weever Apps Mobile Web Apps is a free solution to creating beautiful and stunning HTML5 complaint mobile web pages for WordPress (and Joomla).  We got the chance to interview Steve Smith from Weever Apps [...]

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Interview with Amanda Abella, an Internet Marketer using WordPress 3.3

12.27.2011

Amanda Abella Website: http://www.gradmeetsworld.org Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/amandaabella Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/gradmeetsworld WordPress Version: 3.3 WordPress Theme: Asokay Tell us about your internet marketing background, and how you started doing internet marketing.  Who do you cater to?  And why did you choose this topic as your ‘expertise’ topic? I guess my internet marketing background mostly pertains to freelance writing, [...]

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Comment Luv Junkies – The Iris City Now Has Do Follow Comment Links!

12.27.2011

That’s right, The Iris City has just implemented Comment Luv – and giving Do Follow links to everybody (all comments will be monitored). Comment Luv is an awesome FREE WORDPRESS PLUGIN that will give your visitors a REASON to comment on your blog.  What is that reason? A DO-FOLLOW LINK back to their most recent [...]

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How To Start A WordPress Blog and Make Money Doing It

12.25.2011

We are all born with a destiny — we know what that destiny is when we use our natural talents to provide services to the rest of society.  When we look at it this way, being a totally kickass WordPress webmaster is my destiny. 1. IMPORTANT FACT: Don’t simply start a blog for making money [...]

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Merry Christmas 2011 OptimizePress Lovers! How To Stop Your Page From Disappearing In OptimizePress

12.25.2011

OptimizePress Shortcodes Tips Even though OptimizePress is simple to use as far as layouts and options go… there is a downside to everything.  The tricky thing is the OptimizePress Shortcodes.  Yes, OptimizePress is a great WordPress internet marketing theme, but if you don’t understand the shortcodes, you’re going to have a tough time using them.  [...]

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WordPress Mobile and Paypal Intergration

12.25.2011

If you’re attempting to make money with a WordPress mobile site, you are going to need a way to accept payments.  It may be a storefront where you are attempting to sell digital downloads, a members only site where you sell monthly subscriptions, or an informative site where you’d like to add a ‘Donate Now‘ [...]

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Increase Sales With The Best WordPress Internet Marketing Theme – OptimizePress

12.19.2011

OptimizePress Review – To see some of the latest sales pages/landing pages I’ve built in OptimizePress, please visit my WordPress Portfolio. Have you ever noticed how many of the big product launches on the internet use the same style of long sales pages and landing pages? This is no accident, as research proves that this [...]

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Why Should I Buy A Premium WordPress Plugin?

12.18.2011

Think of it like this. The website is your house, and the plugin is your Christmas Tree.  Do you want a Charlie Brown Christmas tree?  or do you want the tree from Grand Central Station? It’s like the difference in drinking a glass of day old koolaid, and a fresh cup of orange juice that’s [...]

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What You Will Learn, In Time, With An Internet Based Business

12.18.2011

1. People Are Ruthless. 2. Keep on Going. 3. Don’t Give Up.  That Small Check Will Turn Into A Big Check 4. Do What You Love. 5. You Will Loose Money 6. You Will Make Money. 7. Use Premium Themes and Plugins When You Use WordPress 8. Take What You Like To Do and Turn [...]

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Top 10 WordPress SEO Tips

12.16.2011

WordPress search engine optimization is a lot easier than one might think.  By doing a few tweaks and changes to your website, you can ensure your site is being crawled and indexed by search engines, and you are optimizing it for the best outcome (which equals more organic traffic from search engines). Search engine optimization, [...]

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A WordPress Mobile Plugin That Will Have Your Site On iPhone, iPad, and Android in Minutes!

12.14.2011

These WordPress Mobile plugins will have your website up and running on mobile devices in less than 5 minutes! Are you interested in boosting your visibility to the millions of people who are now using mobile devices to access the internet?  Don’t wait until it’s too late in the game before you make yourself visible [...]

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Looking For Guest WordPress Bloggers

12.01.2011

The Iris City is looking for a few Guest Bloggers. Sign up and write a WordPress related article for The Iris City, and you will benefit in the following ways: 1. You will have a backlink to your site! 2. Have your article promoted on the front page. 3. I will write an article for [...]

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Do A Barrel Roll

11.04.2011

This morning as millions of Twitter followers logged on to check their AM tweets, they will be advised to Google Do A Barrel Roll.  But what does this do, exactly?  Well, it’s a cool little trick made up of CSS3, that makes the screen do a 360 degree spin, while keeping the page intact. It [...]

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Build a Mobile E-Commerce Store With WordPress and WP Touch-Pro in 10 Easy Steps

10.29.2011

Lies people tell: “You can’t build a mobile e-commerce store with WordPress!  WordPress is just a content management system!” WRONG! Through the development of open source plugins,  the right combination of these plugins will allow super easy integration of an e-commerce store to iPhone and Android development.The plugins that have made this possible are the [...]

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Google Adsense Alternatives

07.13.2011

Even though Google Adsense is a great program, sometimes, relationships just don’t work out. Google has a history of removing publishers from the Adsense program for no good reason, other than they are making too much money. Sometimes, people are disqualified for the content that is on their site. There are hundreds of reasons people [...]

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HOSTGATOR DISCOUNT COUPONS

06.30.2011

These HostGator coupons are good for the purchase of hosting accounts.iriscity25 – Save 25% off total theiriscity994 – Save 9.94 off hosting (that’s like getting your domain for free) iriscityresell- Save 24.94 off reseller packages   Note: I am affiliated with hostgator.com. I will earn a commission through any referral by using these coupons, however, [...]

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Start Your New Website Today!

05.31.2011

  Why Should I Use WordPress? 1. It’s Super Easy. 2. It’s FREE! (visit WordPress.com or choose to have a top level domain and install it on your domain – better option) 3. It’s Open Source Software – meaning NOBODY owns the code! 4. It is what the world’s top internet marketers use to run [...]

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10 Free WordPress Plugins To Install Before You Begin Adding Content

05.30.2011

WordPress is THE most powerful tool for developing both blogs and websites.  The thing that makes WordPress amazing is it’s easy-to-use interface.  With the click of a button, you have a beautiful template.  A simple search brings back powerful and super easy plugins that can help you manage your blog. Here is a list of [...]

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Increase Your Website's Traffic

05.30.2011

One tough thing for new webmasters is driving traffic to their site.  What is the point of having a website if you don’t have any visitors?  Here are a few tips for increasing your website’s traffic and getting your name out to your target audience. •Add your website link to your business card or flyers. [...]

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Yes! This used to be themoneydiary.com

04.25.2011

If you were looking for The Money Diary, we have recently changed our name to The Iris City (an older, more classy domain).  If you were looking for the article on building a mobile ecommerce store with wptouch and wp e-commerce, you found it!  The only reason I post this is because there seems to [...]

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