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Lame spam of the day: Raw spam merge text

Robert Weiner

Some newbie spammer posted a message on my site that shows the contents of their spam merge database. I recognize so many snippets that have appeared in my spam folder over the years. { {I have|I’ve} been {surfing|browsing} online more than {three|3|2|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Like breaking news, cause awareness and giving day tweets have a short news cycle in the here and now that Twitter users respond to.

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Don’t you hate it when your database goes poof?

Judi Sohn

At some point yesterday morning, my WordPress database disappeared and was replaced with a default WordPress install. It looked like this in Safari: That tiny print is the copy that’s on a default WordPress installation, but with the Thesis theme I use applied to it…kind of. WordPress 2.3 Although WordPress 2.3

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Using a CMS to Make Your Website Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. It’s also possible to pull content from other sites via RSS and display it on your own site, giving you a way to share news feeds or cause-related information of interest to your audience.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

NTEN

Whether your nonprofit organization provides services or advocates for a cause, your stakeholders have common interests. A Drupal or Wordpress site could include these features by adding modules/plug-ins/widgets. If users have to create an account, that in itself is a barrier, but it will allow you to delete accounts that spam.

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SEO For Nonprofits: A Beginners Guide To Digital Marketing Success

Nonprofits Source

Donors are shifting their preferences to online giving as their preferred method of donating to causes they care about. While it may sound like the logical thing to do, it will cause issues with search engines. In the past, people would try to game the algorithms by spamming anchor text links to artificially increase their rankings.

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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel

Amy Sample Ward

It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Raise awareness for your cause and projects. design: is it clean?

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