Comment Spam Holy Cow

Here at Votepages.com headquarters located in a beuatiful penthouse in Buenos Aires we are excited about our little creative writing game. We got this blof to write about stuff, we havea wiki for our help section (which is the hip thing to do these days) and we just want people tio have fun. So one day I see that we have some new comments on our blog and I think Hey! maybe people are using our game! Also, no… all of them are spam. We have 69 comments of complete horse shit spam. I did not think I would need spam protectors like Akismet but I have learned my lesson!

This is spam…

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Vonnegut: How to write a good short story

I really like lists. I like lists because they tell me things in a concise way and I dont have to read any sentences in between. The sentences in between are annoying and I will typically forget them. In this video Kurt Vonnegut has eight rules or tenets or suggestions or whatever to follow to [...]

First page for creative writing on google

Getting natural search engine traffic for a small website like ours can be a little cumbersome. But after about a month of being online we are now on the first page of google for “creative writing game”. From the data that I can see, google averages around 90 searches per month for this topic (pretty [...]

Getting traffic and getting users for our application

My ongoing strategy for getting traffic and active writers to our application consists of the following:
1. Continue to use StumbleUpon to find niche creative writing blogs that will write about our site and link to it. I also plan on using search engines under “creative writing” and “web 2.0″ and similar terms. I have received [...]

StumbleUpon huge spike and decline

From a previous post I discussed the power of StumbleUpon to bring in new visitors but also a quick decline after one day. On September 23th we saw 486 unique visitors to our site and then on September 24th we saw 1296 unique visitors. We received all of these visitors simply by filling out a [...]

Another Stumbleupon Spike and some reviews

Yesterday we saw about 500 users from Stumbleupon view our website which is great news. This tells me that there is a market out there for people that want to see websites about writing. We have also seen a few positive SU reviews about the site which are here.
However I have to agree with the sentiment [...]

Stumbelupon Spike then decline

I posted Votepages on Stumbleupon to get some traffic and have people check it out. On the first day 100 people came to the site which is great ot see. I was very happy with 100 visitors. But then the next day we had none. This is very confusing to me. If the site is [...]

Website is open for writers

We fixed some security bugs and now the site is ready to go. I am creating links across the internet on pertinent sites and asking people to link back. So far I have used StumbleUpon, Digg, and several writing-oriented sites. I checked our Google Analytics tool and we have had several vists (around 100 uniques) [...]

In case anyone is listening

I have noticed that we have a few visitors to our blog so I want to notify you of what is happening. The tech guy on this project My brother Dan is moving the hosting for the application to another server. Once that is finished, the application will be open for business and I will [...]

Our homepage is not that important

Web designers and new website owners tend to spend gobs of time scrutinizing the homepage of a new site. In my opinion the homepage (at least for a site like ours) is not that important. These are the reasons why:
1. The homepage is rarely the entry point for visitors to a website. Web sites are [...]