I’ve been using sitemeter for a while on all my blogs, including a paid account on this blog. As of today I’ve dumped sitemeter from my sites.
The reason plain and simple is because of poor service, but there are more that have been irritating for a while now.
To start off, the sitemeter hits and page views never match any of my other analytics. They are always lower than everyone else and their site is extremely slow. Lastly, I emailed them 3 days ago because a significant difference between the stats on one of my blogs and their numbers. I’ve yet to get a return email with any answers, which is not acceptable. It’s hard to understand when you have a large amount of hits on one analytic (I had a post on the WordPress main page) in a short time frame and sitemeter doesn’t show any hits for the day, hours later.
They say you get what you pay for, sitemeter is free. So is WordPress, but I’ve never had a problem with them.
Well, I’ll just stay with the WordPress stats for now.
November 24, 2007 • 12:50 am 0
Comment Spammers are Smart…Not!
I get a fair amount of spam comments each day, about 10% versus page hits. They run the normal from mortgage to porn to place your favorite drugs name here. Moderating comments prevents them from making their way into the main comments, while Akismet gets 99% of the rest.
Today Akismet caught a comment spam that was actually computer related, but showed the lack of intelligence these spammers have. It’s like all forms for ID theft or phishing, poor grammar, spelling or just plain stupid. The spam comment I had today went like this:
Now, how can someone who supposedly is in the computer field find a simple post about where to find Vista audio drivers hard to understand. That just makes the spam stand out, while making me wonder why would anyone buy a computer from someone that doesn’t have a clue about the hardware.
So, comment spammers if you want to try to get your spam through the filters you should:
Lastly, if you would put the same amount of effort into something legitimate you could actually do some great things for the world.
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