sub domain and seo marketing

[Filter Revised April 19, 2009]

All bloggers know their blog attracts spam comments. They plague your blog with pointless phrases while only intending to increase the in bound link count of their personal project, often promoting something unethical or even illegal on your blog. It makes no difference whether you are on blogspot, blogger or hosted somewhere else, they find you. Wish you could just do your blogging and blog marketing without having to moderate all those usless comments? Now you can!

This free download is a combination spam comments filter and traffic analyzer. The filter is built into the index page and sorts for three known spammer top level domains and several well known second tier level domains. It also filters for a couple of spammer tricks. When it detects a spammer, it redirects them to example.com quick!

The traffic analyzer keeps a log of your Wordpress® blog traffic and sends you an email report of the previous week's activity near the beginning of each week. The analyzer tracks ip, date & time, browser, platform, search engine stats report for the week. It will report the number of countries, states and cities who visited your blog. It even reports how many of these visits were local to you, that is if they were 62 miles, 124 miles or some other user selectable distance. The results are displayed graphically and come automatially in an email near the beginning of each week, no logging into your blog, no checking some other URL for the stats. It comes to you automatically every week.

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Installation is real simple. The zip file contains the whole program and a substitute Wordpress® index file. Unzip the file and upload the "wp-hits" folder to your blog document root. The wp-hits folder contains a sub-folder called "wordpress." In the wordpress folder is the substitue index file. Overwrite the main index file in your Wordpress® installation. You do not need to upload the "wordpress" folder but it does not do any harm to do so.

Then point your browser to the wp-hits folder. That is "http://<name of blog>/wp-hits. The wp-hits index file is the installer. It will generate the log file, check for permissions and setup the configuration file. Installation is automatic but review the setup, change anything you may need to such as the "local range" and fill in the email address you want the weekly report sent to. You do not have to delete the installer file. If accessed again, it will not overwrite your configuration or log file. It does not have the option to delete or overwrite a file either. That's it, all done!

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Technical Notes:
The filter/analyzer hooks into the Maxmind GeoLite Cities database API provided by blogama.org. This is a lite version of the commercial ip-to-location product produced by Maxmind Inc. Maxmind is an ip-to-location database provider for Google, MSN, Yahoo, IBM and many others. The lite version of the commercial database is not quite as up to date as the commercial version but is generally much more accurate and reliable than any other ip-to-location database available. The Maxmind commercial version is used for the "Kratos Kounter Pro" sold in the Kratos Websites, Software Shop. Demo of the Kratos Kounter Pro Here

Local Visits Record
The ip-to-location database returns the city, state, zip code, country, latitude and longitude of an ip address. The configuration file has the geographic location of the website owner. The configuration file has an entry for the range to be considered "local to you." The range is specified as a single digit. 1 equals about 62.1 miles, a 2 about 123.4 miles and so on. The logging script uses the website owner's location and range to build a "geographic hit box" around the website owner's location. The visitor's location is then compared to the hit box. If the visitor is within the box, it is a local visit. The email report gives you the number of local visits versus non-local or global visits.

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