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Practical, Actionable SEO Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Search Engine Optimization. It’s true SEO can be a frustratingly long play since the process of getting indexed by search engines can take weeks or even months. A word on content and AI Search for SEO tips and you’ll read a lot about creating good content that people will want to read. But you can change that.

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Lame spam of the day: spam mashup

Robert Weiner

This plain-text spam has no sender, subject, formatting, or graphics. After that comes what looks like an email header, then some spam text, then a bunch of blank lines, and finally, to cap the effort, random text from travel guides. Search for a provider now. Another newbie spammer playing with a toy? Nothing unusual there.

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Lame spam of the day: disappointed spammer

Robert Weiner

Most of the spam that reaches me comes as emails, but my blog also attracts a fair share of spammy comments. Here''s one of the former, from a spammer I presume is trying to increase the search engine ranking for a site selling shoes. I searched for the first sentence and found over 2 million examples, so it may be working.

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10 Website Maintenance Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Search engine optimization (SEO) can be an expensive and time-consuming because it requires on-going maintenance. If you have a contact us form, add a Google reCAPTCHA to help stop spam emails. If it is not installed on your website, this tutorial provides set up instructions. 4) Prioritize SEO.

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Lame spam as blog comments

Robert Weiner

I wrote recently about spam in the form of blog comments. Fortunately, my anti-spam filters (Akismet and Bad Behavior) caught them. I assume that most of these are planted for search engine optimization rather than to get people to click a link. When in doubt, do a web search. This is really a stupendous work done by you.

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Lame spam of the day: weight loss blog comment

Robert Weiner

Some of the lamest spam I see comes in the form of comments on my blog posts. Some sounds convincing, but my spam filters (Akismet and Bad Behavior) are incredibly good at catching them. It's particularly entertaining when the spam is trying to link to one of my spam of the day posts.). Here's an example.

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Lame spam of the day: Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center

Robert Weiner

It's novel to get the snail mail equivalent of spam. If you run a web search on the name of this organization you'll see lots of posts with words like "ripoff" and "scam". This one came via U.S. mail from the Fictitious Business Name Renewal Center in Sacramento, CA. This is a solicitation.

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