Hi
One of my websites has started to attract a lot of spam messages from people filling in the contact form on the site.
I'm surprised that people can be bothered fil
Hello! I just wanted to say thank you! I had the same issue and having installed the honeypot plugin, so far it works. Thank you :)
The same thing has been happening to me on a few of my websites for the last couple of weeks. It must be the "new thing". At this stage, I'm just group deleting them, but I'll get around to investigating a software solution.
Hey Dave,
The following video may offer you the help you seek: Get Rid of Spam from Website Hope this helps you.
Hi Dave,
I had the exact same thing a few weeks back and was also on the verge of deleting my form.
I use a plug-in which is super easy. No configuration required and you can change the code frequently to stop spammers. I’m using this one :
WP Armour - Honeypot Anti Spam
Hope it helps
You’re very welcome.
You may find a few still get through but they stay as ‘pending’ and are deleted automatically after 30 days. Keep regenerating the code frequency.
I’ve seen an improvement on my Aweber form.
All the best
Louise :-)
Great stuff Louise. It's good to hear that it worked well for you. I'll let you know how i get on with it.
Thanks again
Dave
Hello! I just wanted to say thank you! I had the same issue and having installed the honeypot plugin, so far it works. Thank you :)
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How to stop contact form spam?
Hi
One of my websites has started to attract a lot of spam messages from people filling in the contact form on the site.
I'm surprised that people can be bothered fil
Hi Dave I created a list and made a contact form on aweber so far I don’t get any spam on it on any of my sites Alternatively there are a few anti spam captcha plugins in the backoffice if you search plugins in WordPress.
Hi Sotiris.
I've installed the honeypot plugin that Louise & Abie suggested to see how it goes.
Thanks
Dave
Hello! I just wanted to say thank you! I had the same issue and having installed the honeypot plugin, so far it works. Thank you :)
The same thing has been happening to me on a few of my websites for the last couple of weeks. It must be the "new thing". At this stage, I'm just group deleting them, but I'll get around to investigating a software solution.
Hey Dave,
The following video may offer you the help you seek: Get Rid of Spam from Website Hope this helps you.
Hi Dave,
I had the exact same thing a few weeks back and was also on the verge of deleting my form.
I use a plug-in which is super easy. No configuration required and you can change the code frequently to stop spammers. I’m using this one :
WP Armour - Honeypot Anti Spam
Hope it helps
You’re very welcome.
You may find a few still get through but they stay as ‘pending’ and are deleted automatically after 30 days. Keep regenerating the code frequency.
I’ve seen an improvement on my Aweber form.
All the best
Louise :-)
Great stuff Louise. It's good to hear that it worked well for you. I'll let you know how i get on with it.
Thanks again
Dave
Hello! I just wanted to say thank you! I had the same issue and having installed the honeypot plugin, so far it works. Thank you :)
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Hi all
I am currently getting a lot of spammy comments with trackbacks left on a particular post on one of my sites. Its a review post with a fairly negative review of a
What about your Settings » Discussion page and under the default article settings uncheck the box next to 'Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks is it checked.
Hey Dave,
Whenever you run into issues like this, don't forget to check out training and/or questions asked and answered previously with resolutions.
See screen print below...
Learning how to find valuable tips (whether here on WA, or searching the internet) to solve issues will be like have an entire global library... at your finger tips 24/7.
Hope you find this helpful.
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Advice on stopping trackback spam comments?
Hi all
I am currently getting a lot of spammy comments with trackbacks left on a particular post on one of my sites. Its a review post with a fairly negative review of a
What about your Settings » Discussion page and under the default article settings uncheck the box next to 'Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks is it checked.
Hey Dave,
Whenever you run into issues like this, don't forget to check out training and/or questions asked and answered previously with resolutions.
See screen print below...
Learning how to find valuable tips (whether here on WA, or searching the internet) to solve issues will be like have an entire global library... at your finger tips 24/7.
Hope you find this helpful.
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Hi All
A question for those of you with experience of using paid traffic. Which would you use if you were planning to promote an offer on your website?
For the sake o
Hey Dave,
Which one is "Best" will very much depend on where your niche audience hangs out.
Personally, I don't feel many people who "socialise" on social media are there to spend their money, although I'm know there are many successful entrepreneurs who''ll use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Quora ads.
However, for me, when people want to know something, or are looking for further information, they typically do so via a search engine.
That said, Google will provide the larger audience, although it is said that Bing has an older, higher income, and more educated audience.
So, take from that what you will.
Are you looking to send traffic to an actual article on your site?
The reason I ask is because this isn't something I would do.
Basically, you'll need to look at what provides the best conversion rate, as your spending money on every single click.
Therefore, I would rather collect email addresses first before sending my new subscriber to the article/product review/offer of choice.
This way you get more than one bite at the cherry.
When you consider factors such as bounce rate, time spent on page for "ordinary" organic traffic, the last thing you want is to send 1000 visitors a day to a post and not see any real conversions.
For me, send them to an email sign up page. Have something to entice them to sign up, e.g. a bunch of your articles bundled together and converted to PDF could suffice as a "FREE EBOOK", and once they've signed up you can send them onto your offer.
A very basic email sign up page, with a lot of white space and white background, so very few words/images, with an enticing "free" offer could give you "conversions" (email sign ups) of 30-50%.
You will never get that type of conversion rate by sending paid traffic to an individual article or product review.
Partha
Hi Partha
Yes lots of good advice here.
I am planning to send the traffic to a lead gen / opt-in page with an offer leading to a funnel I'm creating.
I was torn between google ads and solo ads but wanted to see if anyone had any strong recommendations either way.
I've used FB ads in the past but found the leads to be quite unresponsive after they get their free gift. As you say - they were social surfing to begin with.
Thanks
Dave
No worries Dave.
I've used Google, Bing and Facebook before with varying levels of success.
As for solo ads, I'd shoot Hilde a message, as she was using them for her MMO website last year.
As far as I can recall, she was getting around 25-30% conversion (sign up) rate once she'd made a few tweaks.
I believe she wrote about this in one of her blog last year.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/hilderegine
Partha
Hey Dave,
Seems there is a technique to using Facebook, Google, and Bing ads that will help you win the attention you seek.
Personally, I've found 2 different trainings now that have tempted me to using Bing and Google ads only.
Too many others have spent a fortune on ads when not knowing "the secret" and some have been banned from Facebook ads for trying to run an ad they had no way of knowing was against FB's rules.
If you want to know the training I am referring to on Bing and Google ads, send me a private message and I will provide you with URLs to them.
Hope this helps you.
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Which source of paid traffic would you use?
Hi All
A question for those of you with experience of using paid traffic. Which would you use if you were planning to promote an offer on your website?
For the sake o
Hey Dave,
Which one is "Best" will very much depend on where your niche audience hangs out.
Personally, I don't feel many people who "socialise" on social media are there to spend their money, although I'm know there are many successful entrepreneurs who''ll use Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Quora ads.
However, for me, when people want to know something, or are looking for further information, they typically do so via a search engine.
That said, Google will provide the larger audience, although it is said that Bing has an older, higher income, and more educated audience.
So, take from that what you will.
Are you looking to send traffic to an actual article on your site?
The reason I ask is because this isn't something I would do.
Basically, you'll need to look at what provides the best conversion rate, as your spending money on every single click.
Therefore, I would rather collect email addresses first before sending my new subscriber to the article/product review/offer of choice.
This way you get more than one bite at the cherry.
When you consider factors such as bounce rate, time spent on page for "ordinary" organic traffic, the last thing you want is to send 1000 visitors a day to a post and not see any real conversions.
For me, send them to an email sign up page. Have something to entice them to sign up, e.g. a bunch of your articles bundled together and converted to PDF could suffice as a "FREE EBOOK", and once they've signed up you can send them onto your offer.
A very basic email sign up page, with a lot of white space and white background, so very few words/images, with an enticing "free" offer could give you "conversions" (email sign ups) of 30-50%.
You will never get that type of conversion rate by sending paid traffic to an individual article or product review.
Partha
Hi Partha
Yes lots of good advice here.
I am planning to send the traffic to a lead gen / opt-in page with an offer leading to a funnel I'm creating.
I was torn between google ads and solo ads but wanted to see if anyone had any strong recommendations either way.
I've used FB ads in the past but found the leads to be quite unresponsive after they get their free gift. As you say - they were social surfing to begin with.
Thanks
Dave
No worries Dave.
I've used Google, Bing and Facebook before with varying levels of success.
As for solo ads, I'd shoot Hilde a message, as she was using them for her MMO website last year.
As far as I can recall, she was getting around 25-30% conversion (sign up) rate once she'd made a few tweaks.
I believe she wrote about this in one of her blog last year.
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/hilderegine
Partha
Hey Dave,
Seems there is a technique to using Facebook, Google, and Bing ads that will help you win the attention you seek.
Personally, I've found 2 different trainings now that have tempted me to using Bing and Google ads only.
Too many others have spent a fortune on ads when not knowing "the secret" and some have been banned from Facebook ads for trying to run an ad they had no way of knowing was against FB's rules.
If you want to know the training I am referring to on Bing and Google ads, send me a private message and I will provide you with URLs to them.
Hope this helps you.
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Hi
I've received a warning from Google that one of my old websites has had "social engineering content detected".
I havent touched this site for many months and when
Hi
You may follow up on below resource
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/security/social-engineering
On the page it tells you how to fix.
Hope this helps.
You may want to read the following
developers.google dot com/search/docs/advanced/security/social-engineering#:~:text=Social engineering is content that,when visitors view your site.
Thanks George
It looks like some malicious content got added somehow.
Working on fixing it now
have you got ads on that site...
it has turned into a phishing site and google has not listed it as such....
https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/social-engineering-content-detected/
worth reading this article
phil
Hi Phil
No ads on the site.
It appears that there has been a piece of malicious content added somehow.
Thanks for the article
Dave
i hope you manage to get it sorted ....
these hackers are becoming a pain....
make sure, if you are not servicing it frequently, that all plugins and wordpress are automatically updated...
Thanks Phil
Yes thats a good point, I havent been on the site for ages so the plugins are probably in need of updating.
Cheers
if you goto the plugins page you can set them to auto update ( it's not perfect) so it may keep them updated most of the time....
i did have to get support to update some on a site i had not touched for a while as they refused....
I have no idea, Dave, but recommend asking site support to check this out for you.
Is that old site hosted here?
Rudy
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Social engineering content detected - erm, what?
Hi
I've received a warning from Google that one of my old websites has had "social engineering content detected".
I havent touched this site for many months and when
Hi
You may follow up on below resource
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/security/social-engineering
On the page it tells you how to fix.
Hope this helps.
You may want to read the following
developers.google dot com/search/docs/advanced/security/social-engineering#:~:text=Social engineering is content that,when visitors view your site.
Thanks George
It looks like some malicious content got added somehow.
Working on fixing it now
have you got ads on that site...
it has turned into a phishing site and google has not listed it as such....
https://www.getastra.com/blog/911/social-engineering-content-detected/
worth reading this article
phil
Hi Phil
No ads on the site.
It appears that there has been a piece of malicious content added somehow.
Thanks for the article
Dave
i hope you manage to get it sorted ....
these hackers are becoming a pain....
make sure, if you are not servicing it frequently, that all plugins and wordpress are automatically updated...
Thanks Phil
Yes thats a good point, I havent been on the site for ages so the plugins are probably in need of updating.
Cheers
if you goto the plugins page you can set them to auto update ( it's not perfect) so it may keep them updated most of the time....
i did have to get support to update some on a site i had not touched for a while as they refused....
I have no idea, Dave, but recommend asking site support to check this out for you.
Is that old site hosted here?
Rudy
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Hi all
I have looked at several options for creating online courses including Kajabi, Thinkific and Teachable. I want to avoid Udemy to keep control over pricing. Just w
There are some good answers in this thread, for what its worth, I am using Thrive Apprentice, on my own site, which has some awesome integrations with it, along with a Woo Commerce Plugin.
Woo Commerce from my understanding of it, also allows intyegrations with different payment options, such as Stripe and Paypal, but possibly not Authorize.net which I owuld like, but is only available in Canada and US
I'm using this combo because having looked at other options including LMS, its my conclusion hat this offers as clsoe to total flexibility and freedom as is possible to achieve.
.
Hi Dave
Yes I was planning to use Thrive apprentice too since I can integrate with Thrivecart for payments.
I’ve been participating in a few workshops and challenges recently and each has recommended a different LMS but I think I might stick to my original plan
Thrive Apprentice is probably the best option, since I have had similar experience to you with this : )
Be aware, in case you don't know that Thrive Cart, is NOT part of Thrive Themes or anything to do with Thrive Suite and also has a one time licence payment as well, though it does the job weel from what I can see.
Just a heads up
Hi Dave
Yes I already have Thrivecart licence which I use for some of my other products. It's a great tool.
Thanks
Dave
Yes its a really good piece of software and has the added advantage of being able to create your own affiliate program for any products you create.
Oh, okay. Have you reviewed it by any chance, as I'm going down that route on my website slowly but surely.
I haven’t created a review of it as such. I would totally recommend it though if you are ready to add a shopping cart to your business.
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Does anyone have recent experience of lms (course) options?
Hi all
I have looked at several options for creating online courses including Kajabi, Thinkific and Teachable. I want to avoid Udemy to keep control over pricing. Just w
There are some good answers in this thread, for what its worth, I am using Thrive Apprentice, on my own site, which has some awesome integrations with it, along with a Woo Commerce Plugin.
Woo Commerce from my understanding of it, also allows intyegrations with different payment options, such as Stripe and Paypal, but possibly not Authorize.net which I owuld like, but is only available in Canada and US
I'm using this combo because having looked at other options including LMS, its my conclusion hat this offers as clsoe to total flexibility and freedom as is possible to achieve.
.
Hi Dave
Yes I was planning to use Thrive apprentice too since I can integrate with Thrivecart for payments.
I’ve been participating in a few workshops and challenges recently and each has recommended a different LMS but I think I might stick to my original plan
Thrive Apprentice is probably the best option, since I have had similar experience to you with this : )
Be aware, in case you don't know that Thrive Cart, is NOT part of Thrive Themes or anything to do with Thrive Suite and also has a one time licence payment as well, though it does the job weel from what I can see.
Just a heads up
Hi Dave
Yes I already have Thrivecart licence which I use for some of my other products. It's a great tool.
Thanks
Dave
Yes its a really good piece of software and has the added advantage of being able to create your own affiliate program for any products you create.
Oh, okay. Have you reviewed it by any chance, as I'm going down that route on my website slowly but surely.
I haven’t created a review of it as such. I would totally recommend it though if you are ready to add a shopping cart to your business.
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Hi Dave I created a list and made a contact form on aweber so far I don’t get any spam on it on any of my sites Alternatively there are a few anti spam captcha plugins in the backoffice if you search plugins in WordPress.
Hi Sotiris.
I've installed the honeypot plugin that Louise & Abie suggested to see how it goes.
Thanks
Dave