Spam Facts

Spam has been around since the 1970s, but has become more problematic with each passing year. At times, some email accounts can get thousands of these within a week, if not within a day. How much a person gets depends on how careful they are with their email address when surfing the Internet. Spam can be identified as any unsolicited email message that you do not care to get. That covers a lot.

Spam seems to be free, but it costs Internet providers a lot of money. When information is passed through the Internet, it takes up what is known as bandwidth. This is something that each provider must pay for, and when large amounts of spam go through it, the cost of sending that data is paid by that provider.

The most common Spam is commercial in nature. You may have no interest in Viagra, but spam emailers assume that you do. Viagra and Rolex are the most common things hawked through these unsolicited, commercial emails. It would seem that we all need to be reminded that it is time to take our Viagra.

Just a few people send out most of the spam you get in your inbox. It may seem that spam is sent out from many, many random people, and that can be the case. However, there are a few people who send out the majority of the spam that you get. They send out millions of these messages each day, and are wanted by those that enforce the new laws about spam email.

If you buy from spam emails, you contribute to the problem. If no one were to use these as sources to buy things, spam would not work. That would mean it would all but disappear. Don't buy anything you see through such a message, even if it seems appealing. Go find it through other online sources.

Most of the Spam in the world, billions of emails a day, come from the United States. It is estimated that there are almost 15 billion send out day, and it makes up almost 50% of the email messages all total. Korea comes in second to the United States as the biggest source of these messages.

Once you hit a spam list, you are not getting off of it. Clicking on a link to unsubscribe to spam only means that you have verified your email is active, making your address more valuable to those who sell email addresses to spammers. You are going to have to get a new address to get it to stop.

It can be hard to find out from where a spam email really comes. You can try, however, buy using a free email lookup service to see what comes up with any email address.

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Blog Scammers

By now everybody knows to ignore the 'Nigerian 419 types scams' emails that state either you have won a big sum of money from a lottery you did not even buy or someone in a foreign country needs financial help in order to go through a surgery for an incurable decease. Earlier days people did not know they are just being taken for a ride where most have lost money and even traveled overseas in order to claim their prize.

However now it has evolved to a level that can affect blogs too. Basically what these scammers do is purchase your ad space or your text links and then send you a cheque for a higher price than which was agreed and then their trick is to ask for refund.

Therefore please use your common sense before giving out your advertising space even though your blog depends on the money you make out of blogging.

The most important thing you have to do when dealing with direct advertisers is that you know your buyer thoroughly. No one can deny if you inquire for their URL and anchor text of the target site, and name of the company or individual behind the site and research prior to coming to an agreement. If genuine they will cooperate.

Make sure you make payments through a reliable direct payment method order to avoid the cheques being bounced or do not get cleared at all because by the time you realize that the cheque is fake they will be long gone with your refund.

Albeit direct advertising is more money, stick to reliable advertising sources such as Google AdSense if possible.

You have to be very careful who you deal with because there are no laws made against blog scammers as yet.

You can also find out how you can avoid being scammed while using blog automation programs by visiting www.blogwarriorelite.com

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How to Drive More Traffic to Your Site Simply by Commenting on Others' Blogs

Blogging has became one of the most popular trend in the internet world, you can hardly find someone who is successful online without their own blog. I know it is hard to create a high traffic blog overnight but do you know that you can drive traffic to your site with other people high traffic blog.

This is what most people are talking about "Piggyback Traffic". Commenting on blogs that have huge traffic allows you to piggyback on the traffic of that blog and this can at least drive you quite a number of visitors every month and increase the number of back links to your site. However there are some technique you should bear in mind when you are commenting on other people blog

1) Add comment with value: When I am talking about giving comment on other people blog, I am referring to valuable comment. I have seen such low value comment such as great job! yo dude, how's it hanging that may get your comment deleted by the owner. Moreover, the better your comment, the more highly other readers of the blog think of you.

2) Always make respectful comment: Do not attempt to counter what the blog owner is trying to portrait. If you are unhappy with that post, you simply don't comment on it and you should not try to counter the owner and this will simply get you deleted and blocked on that blog in future.

With these two factors in mind when you are posting comments on other people's blog, you will get higher chance of getting approval from the blog owner and they will also see you as a valuable contributor to their blog.

Now try this method out and wait to see the result it brings to you.

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What Constitutes Email Spam?

You can think of spam as one of the biggest annoyances on the Internet. Though it was once growing at an alarming rate, it has level off recently. That does not mean the numbers of messages sent by spam mailers has gone down, it is just holding. There are about 100 billion or more spam emails sent out each day. These are destined for your inbox if you don't have good online habits or if your spam filter does not work well.

You could say that spam email is any email that you don't want to get. However, that is not entirely true. If you have signed up for a mailing list, or with a company, they have permission to send you email. Even if you get annoyed by these emails, they are not spam. Legitimate companies ask you to opt out if you no longer want emails, but you should never do with if you are not sure where the email has come from. It just verifies your address is valid and active.

You can classify spam email as any email advertisement or solicitation that you did not ask to get. That means you did not purposely give someone your email address to get advertisements from them. Spam mailers get your email addresses from public places online where you have posted yours. That means you should treat it as your cell phone number. Never post your email address anywhere online if you want to keep spam from flooding in.

Spam is also any email that tries to deceive or scam you. If you are lucky, you have never gotten an email telling you that someone from across the ocean wants to give you money for doing almost nothing. You have never heard fake tales of woe about a lost inheritance or dead family members. However, most of us have seen these, and some even fall for them. These are some of the worst types of spam out there.

Any email that comes to you with a forged or hidden email header is also spam. You may not be sure in some cases what you are dealing with. When that happens, you can take that email address and put it into a reverse email lookup to see if you can find out more about the sender.

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What is CAN-SPAM Anyway?

Although the CAN-SPAM act was signed into law back in 2003, I still get email after email that does not comply with the regulations. As the Internet and email became a larger part of everyday American life, spam became a new favorite way for unethical marketers to make quick money. The CAN-SPAM act criminalized SPAM for the first time and finally provided consumers a way to help stop the flood of useless messages in their inbox.

In talking about the CAN-SPAM Act, it is important to first mention what is, and is not, covered under the law. The law covers email whose primary purpose is advertising or promoting a commercial product or service. Therefore, the funny email that you sent to your friend or coworker is not a violation. Also, a "transactional or relationship message" email that relates to an agreed-upon transaction or updates a customer in an existing business relationship is exempt from most provisions of the CAN-SPAM Act. That said, it is still illegal for such an email to contain false or misleading routing information.

The final act was well over 80 pages long, so here is the quick rundown of some of the key provisions.

The Act bans any false or misleading header information. This refers to the "From" and "To" header of the email that identifies the originating domain name and the person that sent the email. Deceptive subject lines are prohibited. It is against the law to title an email about a book review with "Lindsay Lohan Nude Pics".

One more noticeable requirement of the law is that recipients must have an opt-out method in the email. This can be a return email address or an opt-out link. When someone opts to no longer receive your emails, you have 10 business days to stop sending email to that address. Once someone opts-out, you also can't sell or transfer the address to someone else for email purposes.

Probably the most violated requirement is that all commercial email must be identified as an advertisement and must include the sender's valid physical postal address. The email has to be clear that it is a commercial email and the recipient has the option to no longer receive messages from you. If you are sending out to a mailing list, make sure you include your postal address to be in compliance.

The law allows the Department of Justice to seek criminal penalties, including imprisonment, who commit certain violations of the CAN-SPAM Act. There can also be fines of up to $11,000 PER EMAIL! While this act has mainly been enforced against a few mega-spammers, it applies to all commercial emails, including affiliate marketing. The FTC maintains a consumer complain database of violations. Consumers can submit their complaints online at http://www.ftc.gov/spam or by forwarding unwanted commercial email to spam@uce.gov

It is a shame that spammers have made life more difficult for all the honest marketers out there, but it is very important to keep the CAN-SPAM act in mind as you build your mailing list. While the requirements for compliance are small, the potential penalties are not.

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Using the Spam Filtering Service With MS Outlook - Exact Step by Step Procedure

Following is the exact step by step procedure for using the spam filtering service with Microsoft Outlook to block spam emails entering your email:

1. Start Outlook Rules Wizard from start menu by clicking Tools and Rules Wizard. If you are using this wizard for first time it will first display the pop-up message.

2. Select the mail server inbox that you use and click on the new button. You will see a new pop-up window. Now click on the radio button next to 'Start from a blank rule' and highlight 'Check messages when they arrive' from the box below. Click Next button.

3. In the next window you will define the rules for filtering the messages. This window asks you the conditions under which you want spam filter to check the messages. Click and check the box that says 'with specific words in the messages header'. Now click on the next button below.

4. You will notice that the rule description text box on the lower part of window is changed. To use the tags from filtering service to identify spam messages use this: x-Perlmx-Spam:Guage=XXXXXXXXXX. Enter this in the text box and lick on the Add button.

5. Now here you will specify the follow up action on spam mails. Check the box next to 'move it to the specified folder'. Then click on the 'specified' folder active link. Choose the folder where you want to dump junk emails. You can give whatever name you want to the folder. Junk or Spam are the appropriate words for such folder. Click on the next button.

6. Here you can give further exceptions. Once you are comfortable with the exceptions click on the finish button. You can test your rule by sending messages to your email with the filtering text in the message header.

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