About the only long lasting affect of my experiments with ping-back linking has been that I have completely lost the ability to comment on other people’s blogs. Any mention of themakemoneyonline.net domain and the comment is caught by Akismet. So how do I get of the blacklist?
For the first time in a long while I went through my Akismet caught spam comments today and just to show how bad it is, even when I link to my own previous posts the track back gets caught as spam! I know that when I comment (not for any gain, just cos I like to have an opinion) on all the regular blogs I comment on each comment now has to be manually approved. It means that most never show up, I’m wasting my time trying to join in. If you’re like me you probably don’t check your spam list that often.
My question is this, is there anyway of applying to get yourself removed from the black list that Akismet uses? And secondly has anybody successfully done it? I’m not at all fussed about top commenting and all that bumf, I’d just like my voice to be heard again!
ps Yes I did just have to go in and approve the ping back link to my post on the ping-back strategy, grrrrrr!!!
6 Responses to “Getting Off The Akismet Black List”
KushMoney
January 7, 2009
It sucks that you on the blacklist. I hope somebody help you get off the blacklist.
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|Paul B
January 8, 2009
I’ve only got myself to blame for using dodgy linking strategies – even if they are endorsed by a listers. Never mind, with any luck somebody somewhere has some experience of getting of the list.
|KushMoney
January 8, 2009
Have you tried contacting the makers of akismet?
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|Paul B
January 9, 2009
OK, so this was much easier than I thought. In order to get of the list you need to:-
1. Start making genuine comments
2. Contact the blog owner whose site you just commented on and ask them nicely to “not spam” your comment through the Akismet interface.
3. Repeat until your comment Karma is positive again.
4. Don’t ever think about using some half assed ping back shite again.
To kickstart the process you can “not spam” any of your comments/ping backs on your own blog first. Within 2 days, and 4 bloggers approvong my comments it looks like I’m back on the good list again.
|Da brush
January 10, 2009
I didn’t know we could be banned from all blog using Akismet.
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