WordPress.com Forums » Tag: memes - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/memes WordPress.com Forums » Tag: memes - Recent Posts en Wed, 22 May 2013 03:05:03 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 timethief on "How to nominate bloggers for awards, etc" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-nominate-bloggers-for-awards-etc#post-936536 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:31:42 +0000 timethief 936536@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Setting aside blogger created awards memes, there are also "sponsored" blog memes like Blogger's Choice Awards and in those cases a commercial site sponsoring the meme requires bloggers to enter nominations and votes on their site. That amounts to great traffic for them as the sponsoring sites are all monetized sites and most are PPC (pay per click) sites. A typical example of such a meme is one wherein one can nominate their own blog in a specific category on the sponsored site, and then vote for it every day on the sponsored site, and get all their friends to vote for it too.

Superficially they are a means of locating blogs to read you would not have otherwise located and making new blogging "friends". But the actual purpose underlying any award meme is to accrue backlinks.

Links are the currency of the blogopsphere. Backlinks to your blog and posts are an indication of popularity and a factor when it comes to earning page rank. All awards memes involve a badge of some sort and a list of things to publish about in a post of your own. All awards memes require "nominating" other blogs ie. sending them backlinks when you publish the required post. The overall function is similar to a chain letter function.

My advice is not to take any of these memes seriously.

]]> timethief on "How to nominate bloggers for awards, etc" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-nominate-bloggers-for-awards-etc#post-936531 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:25:03 +0000 timethief 936531@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ A blog meme (blog award) is a viral game where you generate links and relationships through asking other bloggers to participate. There are no WordPress.com sponsored blog awards memes and this is not a WordPress.com support issue per say.

If you are "nominated" and you want to play the chain letter styled blog award meme game then you go to the site of the person who presented you with the award and follow the instructions they posted.

Natural backlinking patterns to authoratative posts in related blogs in posts on your own blog are what Google is focused on. These awards memes are the opposite of natural linking patterns, which is why I don't participate in any of them.

]]> beebeesworld on "How to nominate bloggers for awards, etc" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-to-nominate-bloggers-for-awards-etc#post-936524 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 22:15:43 +0000 beebeesworld 936524@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ How do you nominate bloggers for award-PLEASE use simple terms, I cannot get anyone to tell me EXACT what I need to do-where I put the nomination, find awards available to nominate for etc...What do you do if you are nominated? There must be somewhere I can find out how to do this, I love wordpress and am learning a lot, but I am not in tune with a lot of tech info, and sometimes struggle to learn the "hows and whys" Thank you!
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Blog url: http://beebeesworld.wordpress.com/

]]> timethief on "spam" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-36#post-896137 Mon, 28 May 2012 00:52:51 +0000 timethief 896137@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

P.S. absurdoldbird is right. If you blog on spam and you aren't a blogging tips blogger providing tips on how to deal with it you are inviting even more Spam. Many beginner bloggers fing out the welcome mat and thewn end up here complaining about spam. lol :D

]]> earthriderjudyberman on "spam" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-36#post-896133 Mon, 28 May 2012 00:43:00 +0000 earthriderjudyberman 896133@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you timethief and absurdoldbird. I realize that I may be waving the equivalent of a red flag before a bull by posting about spam. But I can't just sit and quietly seethe about the problem.
I do appreciate the tips.

]]> timethief on "spam" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-36#post-895931 Sun, 27 May 2012 20:36:56 +0000 timethief 895931@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That does sound odd but it's my experience that most bloggers presenting awards to other bloggers sincerely want to recognize the blogs they link to. As attrecting traffic and securing comments has become a formidable undertaking these days many have resorted to securing backlinks vis memes like blog awards and blog contaests, etc.

It's likewise important to know that the sponsoring of a meme, blog award, blog contest by any company brings them lots of hits and they operate on ppc (pay for click) sites. The voting takes place on those company sites and no matter how many time I have explained this in greater detail than I am doing now some bloggers just don't get it. Google has filters that favor natural linking patterns.
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2009/08/27/natural-linking-strategy-for-bloggers/
http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2011/01/07/natural-links-google-warns-webmasters/

]]> absurdoldbird on "spam" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-36#post-895929 Sun, 27 May 2012 20:31:44 +0000 absurdoldbird 895929@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Just an aside here - when I was writing a general blog, I found that doing posts about spam - and even talking about it in comments - brought more to my blog - mostly because they pick up on it via search engines. So if you get much more after your current post, this might be why.

And a tip to lessen the spam, if there are any specific words or phrases that you see over and over again that appear in the comments (and which aren't likely to appear in real people's comments) you can blacklist them:

http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

]]> earthriderjudyberman on "spam" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-36#post-895924 Sun, 27 May 2012 20:20:45 +0000 earthriderjudyberman 895924@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Again, thank you. I've read the links you provided as well. I was cautious about the award I mentioned as it was presented to me by someone I'd never had contact with before. The odd thing is my stories rarely contain the info that that group writes about.

]]> timethief on "spam" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-36#post-895192 Sat, 26 May 2012 18:20:54 +0000 timethief 895192@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

2. This week, I was awarded the "Illuminating Blogger Award." I can't find any info on it. Is this affiliated with WordPress?

No this is not affiliated with WordPress.com. A blog meme is a viral game where you generate links and relationships through asking other bloggers to participate. There are many blog awards and all are memes designed to get backlinks under the guise of blog awards.

]]> timethief on "spam" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-36#post-895188 Sat, 26 May 2012 18:17:47 +0000 timethief 895188@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

1. Recently, my blog has been inundated with spammers.

There's nothing you can do to eliminate spam. The majority of all "information" on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all comments submitted to blogs here at >wordpress.com every day are spam. Akismet is an excellent spam filter. http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/
See here for more on managing spam > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2012/05/20/mark-spam-as-spam/

]]> earthriderjudyberman on "spam" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/spam-36#post-895184 Sat, 26 May 2012 18:11:36 +0000 earthriderjudyberman 895184@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I have two questions I hope you can answer:
1. Recently, my blog has been inundated with spammers. The URLs of some of them is quite graphic, and when I hover the mouse over the name, the photo is pornographic. Akismet has been excellent in filtering out this spam. But I wonder if anything can be done to eliminate it. I now spend more time cleaning out the junk mail than I do in creating my blog. (I just wrote a blog about this: "Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam.")
2. This week, I was awarded the "Illuminating Blogger Award." I can't find any info on it. Is this affiliated with WordPress?
Thank you.
Judy Berman
earthrider

]]> jessielansdel on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827699 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:07:36 +0000 jessielansdel 827699@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ah! I see. Like text msgs where you are asked to forward a msg to 12+ friends and you will be blessed with good fortune. Blah! Boring.

]]> jacquisong on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827695 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 21:03:23 +0000 jacquisong 827695@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Ahaha I don't mind them unless they get to the point where they say "You will die unless you do....." blah blah blah :P Then I don't do them.
I'm supposed to have been dead many years ago and in many terrible ways according to death chain mail! I'm living on the edge!!!

]]> timethief on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827691 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:56:06 +0000 timethief 827691@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I should have typed:
All memes are created for the purpose of getting backlinks. Those who defend them say they are a great way for new bloggers to locate other blogs and make new blogging friends, who may become blog commenters, followers/suscribers on their blogs. They are similar to chain letters.

]]> timethief on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827687 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:52:16 +0000 timethief 827687@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The motivation behind any meme like this one is getting backlinks.

]]> hnsaifi on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827647 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:44:59 +0000 hnsaifi 827647@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Edited on their blog

]]> hnsaifi on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827646 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:43:17 +0000 hnsaifi 827646@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This is a (silly) game where the OP posted 11 questions is his/her blog and tagged 11 people to ask them to post those questions with answers, and asking more 11 questions on his blog and tag 11 people t answer them and so on. Much like the "answer a question ask a question'' thread here.

]]> jessielansdel on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827514 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:29:14 +0000 jessielansdel 827514@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Tagged? I don't know what that is. I'm a bit dim so.....please explain.

]]> idleemma on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827500 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:03:35 +0000 idleemma 827500@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ It's no secret at all, bloggers hate getting tagged.

]]> jacquisong on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827415 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 09:30:33 +0000 jacquisong 827415@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Woah.. A lot of hate! At least I know?? :)

]]> hnsaifi on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827390 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 07:28:07 +0000 hnsaifi 827390@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And I was tagged with this (silly) game. Sorry I don't like it.

]]> idiotphotographer on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827383 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 06:31:17 +0000 idiotphotographer 827383@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm with noirciplume on this one. Only I'm not so secret about it.

]]> noirciplume on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827309 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:43:04 +0000 noirciplume 827309@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Secretly, bloggers hate these games.

]]> jacquisong on "Want to be tagged?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/want-to-be-tagged#post-827140 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:49:26 +0000 jacquisong 827140@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I've been tagged in this game where I answer 11 questions, I tag some friends and then they answer 11 questions I make up for them. I've only got 3 or so people to tag and was wondering if someone wants to be? Please let me know! :D

If you wanna check out my blog its socialsistersblog.wordpress.com or just click my name :P

]]> teresebfoto on "Allow other users to link on my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/allow-other-users-to-link-on-my-post#post-815233 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:58:40 +0000 teresebfoto 815233@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you! I meant back linking from their own blogpost into my competition post. How is the best way to do this? Sending their picture to me by mail?

]]> timethief on "Allow other users to link on my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/allow-other-users-to-link-on-my-post#post-815221 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:49:16 +0000 timethief 815221@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There is a grab my button code generator for WordPress.com blogs and a brief tutorial here that you may find useful. If you wish you can use the generator to create a “grab my button” code for your friends to use in your competition. See here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2010/04/16/grab-my-button-code-generator-and-tutorials/

]]> timethief on "Allow other users to link on my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/allow-other-users-to-link-on-my-post#post-815217 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:44:37 +0000 timethief 815217@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm sorry I think I misunderstood you completely. I thought at first that you were referring to one of those "linky" widget generators. I apologgize for being off track.

Yes it's possible to have a competitiuon on your site. Yes it's possible set rules for other bloggers requiring them to backlink to your posts if the take part in the competition.

]]> timethief on "Allow other users to link on my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/allow-other-users-to-link-on-my-post#post-815212 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:41:37 +0000 timethief 815212@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ There are memes, awards and other chain-letter like schemes for generating backlinks that can be conducted as you describe but not on this software. We don't have the ability to do this on free hosted WordPress.com blogs.

]]> teresebfoto on "Allow other users to link on my post" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/allow-other-users-to-link-on-my-post#post-815204 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:35:23 +0000 teresebfoto 815204@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I am going to have an photo competition on my blog, and I have seen on other blogs that it is possible to make a blog post on their own site, and then make a link directly into the competition post. Is this possible in wordpress.com?

]]> timethief on "Official WP Blog awards?" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/official-wp-blog-awards#post-810193 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:19:54 +0000 timethief 810193@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You're welcome.

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