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January 11, 2012

Signing up for quality email lists

Yes, we’ve all done it.  We read one piece of content from a website that we like and we then think, “this person knows what they are talking about.  They really get it!”  So we sign up for their mailing list and then we really get it.  Mass email after email trying to get us [...]

June 8, 2011

Drupal Customization Drastically Reducing Spambot User Registration

To follow up on a recent post in which we were using ReCaptcha customizations to further prevent spam attacks on our websites, we wanted to include this additional method which will cause spam systems to have real trouble submitting valid forms on your drupal sites. This drupal customization comes based on the details discussed on [...]

June 7, 2011

ReCaptcha Tip: Force Users to Enter Valid Answer on Each Submission

If you are a web developer, there is no doubt you are familiar with the use of the ReCaptcha tool that Google has taken ownership of.  In fact, even most users of the Internet in general will experience the ReCaptcha tool in almost every form they have to fill out now.  Why?  You guessed it, [...]

May 20, 2011

Let A Chimp Help In Your Email Marketing Campaigns: A Mailchimp Review

There are several providers of email marketing software in the web today. Because of the number, you can easily be torn between these many options. I, for example, have gone through several of these (and believe me choosing and comparing can be a tough and daunting task!!!!). But, I have discovered one email marketing service [...]

April 1, 2011

Recent Data Shows Great Value in Blog Comment Spam Filtering

If your not using Akismet Spam Blocker plugin yet, why not?  A number of questions have been asked regarding how to keep your website comments open to the public, while not being forced to moderate through tons of spam (especially if you are using the dofollow link).  Well, the short answer for our case is [...]

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