A month or so ago, I implemented Akismet Spam filter and I must say it has been a blessing. Many people told me that Akismet is “yesterday” but it has been working fine for me. At least Comment notification emails no longer hit my Inbox. I still check my Spam folder and have fished out perfectly legitimate comment from there and even when I have already “approved” the comment by this particular person, when he comments again, it will once again go to the Spam folder. Somehow, my instructions don’t stick.

I think that it is because these people post a lot of comments on many blogs daily, and even though they are genuine comments, Akismet thinks that they are spam due to the pattern of activity.

I wonder how many people will wade through their Spam folder just to check if there’s any genuine comment, just in case, you know? I know that if I were the commenter and my on-topic comment was not published, I would be pretty pissed off. So I wade through the Spam folder so as not to have any misunderstanding.

As a blogger providing freeform contextual links and buzzes to advertisers, or sponsors to be politically correct, for the past eleven months now, I dare say that I have “met” many kinds of sponsors, some are very happy with my work, some are not but then when you have clocked more than two thousand posts, things like these are bound to happen.

One thing I notice is that most sponsors and publishers are not on the same page. Sponsors really expect the moon from publishers but most are unwilling to up their payout. And when they up it, they expect the moon AND the Earth. That means that if they pay higher, they expect way more things that are out of the publisher’s control.

Sponsors are ban happy too. From what I see, sponsors do not know what they are paying for if they ban bloggers who have removed their post past the 30-day time frame when in fact that was what they have paid for ONLY. They could ban bloggers who has less page views than they expected when that was the Alexa traffic indicator that they chose. Now, traffic is really subjective because what to me may be high but to you, it is not enough, see what I mean?

Sponsors also ban when they feel that your blog is inappropriate when they were the one who selected all categories. What the heck, man? I could go on and on but then I will leave those for another day.

Thankfully, the good outweighs the bad 😀

After the fiasco that we received from the sponsor of a blog to pay marketplace and the ridiculous decision that the marketplace has taken, I complain to my friend 99.

He told me that there is a way to remove the cache of our blog posts from Google’s Cache. I don’t know how and would need him to show me at the computer. This is no way to teach via phone calls, SMS or instant messengers.

The thing is that, after 24 – 48 hours of publishing a post, it would have been indexed by Google already. This past couple of months, I noticed that Google has been even more efficient in indexing new content, especially of blogs.

How can a sponsor decline a post that followed all the rules as stipulated in the campaign description and then ask us to remove and refuse to pay for the job? And if this really happens, my friend says that I should remove the cache from Google for all the posts that were rejected.

This certainly makes sense because why should we give away link juice for free to a sponsor who created bitterness among us?