V9 Blog in Spam

15 Dec

Posted by fx in Blogging (Email, Spam, Statistics)

One way of measuring the growth of a blog must be in spam statistics. Its now halfway through the month and we’ve almost broken last months spam counts. Considering we’ve pretty new, and still growing thats a lot of spam!

Spam detected
Ham detected
Missed spam
False positives

2008-12
2,826
44,933
1
0

2008-11
3,585
58,589
9
1

2008-10
954
9,001
1
5

2008-09
662
4
2
0

2008-08
8
1
1
0

Make Money Blogging [South Africa]

15 Dec

Posted by fx in Blogging (AdSense, Advertising, Google, PageRank, South Africa)

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Across the web there are a lot of guides to monetizing your blog, most of which do have information relevant to a South African blogger; but not focussed on a South African. A large portion of our reader base is South African and so we have some experience with this, and [...]