There are several solutions which can be completed:
- 1. Make sure that your WordPress script is updated to the latest stable version. Detailed instructions regarding the WordPress update can be found on the corresponding tutorial page.
- 2. Install a captcha plugin. A good choice is the WordPress ReCaptcha plugin. Comprehensive instruction on how to install a WordPress plugin can be found here. Once activated, the plugin will prompt for the public and the private API keys. The visualized link will take you to the corresponding Google web site where you can get the API keys for free. Paste them in the corresponding fields and activate your ReCaptcha plugin for comments and users registrations.
- 3. WordPress comes with a preinstalled antispam solution – Akismet.
In order to use Akismet, you should have a WordPress API key. To receive a WordPress API key, you should register at the official WordPress website. The key will be included in your welcome mail.
If you already have a registration at WordPress.org, you can see your API key by visiting the WP dashboard.
To enable Akismet for your blog, follow the steps below:
Step 1. Go to your WordPress admin area > Plugins > Installed. Step 2. Click Activate. 
- The Akismet plugin will be activated.
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Step 3. Click “enter your WordPress.com API key” (you can also click Akismet Configuration in the Plugins section)
Step 4. Enter your WordPress API key. Step 5. Click Update options>>. Step 6. If you have entered a correct API key, it will be verified.
From now on your blog will be protected from spam by Akismet. You will be able to check the comments in your blog for spam, as well as manually mark comments as spam from the blog admin area > Comments.
You can also display on your blog’s front page how many spam posts have been stopped by Akismet. To show this information, you should add the Akismet widget to your sidebar. More information how to do this can be found in our article on how to add a widget to the WordPress sidebar.
- 4. Additionally, you can prevent the comments posted by visitors that come from suspicious and malicious IPs. This can be done using the WordPress Project Honey Pot plugin.
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This is a great opportunity for earning a steady income, leveraging your skills. Send your contact details and a detailed write-up on your experience with all the references. We offer a competitive pay, paid per article basis.
Applicants must have
- Excellent written communication skills
- Fluency in English
- Proven track record
- Subject matter expertise in one of the following areas; Technology, Politics, Movies & Finance.
Telephonic interviews will be conducted for shortlisted candidates.
Why write for Blog.co.in?
The short answer: You have the skill and we have the audience.
There are many highly skilled individuals in India who have a great passion for writing but do not have a medium to reach out to the crowds. Your writings will not only reach the large number of registered bloggers we have, but also to the huge number of visitors we get every month. We make your dream come true in becoming a well recognized writer / blogger.
However, we are very picky in selecting the candidates. Given the selection criteria we have; if you are selected, you must be really something.
Send your resume with address and contact details to jobs @ blog.co.in. Provide as many details as possible while applying, to make the screening process easier.
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The most popular question sent to our support team, is How to become a successful blogger and earn money?. We always had been providing guidance to our bloggers individually, on a case-by-case basis to improve their blog. But we thought this article would help all our bloggers to succeed in their efforts.
More Traffic – More Money
Many successful bloggers around the globe earn very good income from their blog. Here is a simple math. For every 1000 page views on your blog, you could earn anywhere from $2 to $10, depending on the topic your blog specializes. So target for 1000 visits per month to begin with and continuously raise your standards.
Many top blogs on an average get over Million page views a month. So, you calculate what they may be earning.
It Takes Time
Professional bloggers evolve over time as they develop skills and attitude to improve their blogging. For some, its natural but many need practice and the commitment to shine their skills. So, dont give up.
Pick Your Favorite Topic
For gaining the reader’s interest and to turn visitors into your readers, your blog must provide useful information on a specialized topic. Pick any topic that you really like.
If you are not clear, do some research to understand what people are searching for, on the internet. Google Trends and Google zeitgeist are useful.
Stay on Top
Stay up-to-date with what is happening around. Do your best to post the latest information or any developments on your blog, on the topic you selected. Posting current affairs on your blog could bring more visitors to your blog.
What You Write Matters
Content is the key for any successful blog. Do not just write, but try to communicate your message to the readers. Write in simple language. Make use of examples to articulate.
Do not steal someone elses content. Not only it is unethical, but also the duplicate content will make search engines to penalize your blog.
No Discipline – No Success
Nothing can be achieved with out hard work and discipline. Create a plan when and how much time you will spend on your blog. Stick to the plan. Make it a habit to regularly update your blog. Ask this question to your self. Will you read any news website; if the news is few days old?
Create Connection with Readers
Effective communication is very important. In your articles express your thoughts clearly and ask for readers opinions. More importantly, respond to those comments.
And the list goes on. We will stop there and wish you all the very best.
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We had been getting many queries not to show Ads on the blog homepages or show fewer. So we have been experimenting for some time to see which type of visitors tend to click on ads and generate revenue for you on the blog and how the ads on homepage perform.
Following is an anonymized graph from Google Analytics, using a sample of 90 days data, shows the percentage of ads clicked by visitors coming from different sources.
It’s clearly evident that the visitors sent by search engines are generating 90% of the revenue that a blog earns. Though you see 19% direct visitors clicked on the ads, most of them were originally came from search engine results, for the first time.
And, further analysis has shows that 96% of search engine visitors do not land on a blog’s home page, but directly on a post.
So it appears that showing no ads/fewer ads on the home page has almost zero impact on the blog’s revenue.
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Lately, Google has been strict on the new applications for the AdSense. Here are few tips that could get your AdSense application approved.
- Do not apply for AdSense with empty blogs where there is not much content.
- Make sure your blog has unique content and it provides some value to visitors.
- Do not copy content from other sites. Also do not post copied articles from free article websites. They also badly affect your blog’s search engine ranking, due to content duplication.
- Make sure you regularly write on your blog.
- Do not add lots of affiliate marketing links / sidebar widgets from all sorts of websites, unless they are very relavent to the content on your blog.
- Do not create a blog purely for search engine optimization.
SocialTwist’s Tell-A-Friend widget, customized exclusively for Blog.co.in is now available on all user blogs. It is enabled automatically for all the blogs and is shown at the bottom of each post.
It’s an easy and effective way to tell your friends about a post you just wrote or read on a blog. You can even bookmark it to popular social bookmarking websites such as del.icio.us, Digg, etc.
That’s just another reason to be a part of happy Blog.co.in family 
Take a couple of minutes to explore it’s cool features. Give it a try, you gotta love this!
Here is a screenshot in action.
XML Sitemaps are automatically generated for all the blogs. They can be accessed via the URL http://<your-blog-name>.blog.co.in/sitemap.xml
For example, sitemap for the blog mirror.blog.co.in can be found at http://mirror.blog.co.in/sitemap.xml
We also submit the sitemap URLs to Google and other popular search engines, each time a new post / page is written on the blog.
This should help in improving the search engine rankings of your blog.
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