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Common sense tip: publish during the day!

Have you ever set aside time in the evening to publish an especially prolific blog post and then end up disappointed when you don't see the hits rolling in?

Here's a better way: save your post as a draft and then publish it in the mid-morning the next day. Sending your post out into a world full of sleeping readers won't get you much attention!

This is especially true if you update your blog's Twitter with links to new posts. Save those updates for when most people are online and looking at Twitter, in the mid-morning when they've already gone through their own email and are ready to catch up with their Twitter friends.

common spam words

While the good folks at TypePad (and I can only assume every other blogging service) bans a large amount of spam before you ever see it, some spam may still manage to get through the filters.

Here is a list of common words that may show up in spam comments and banning these words in your blog's ban list might help reduce the amount of spam you see.

-online
4u
adipex
advicer
baccarrat
blackjack
bllogspot
booker
byob
car-rental-e-site
car-rentals-e-site
carisoprodol
casino
casinos
chatroom
cialis
coolcoolhu
coolhu
credit-card-debt
credit-report-4u
cwas
cyclen
cyclobenzaprine
dating-e-site
day-trading
debt-consolidation
debt-consolidation-consultant
discreetordering
duty-free
dutyfree
equityloans
fioricet
flowers-leading-site
freenet-shopping
freenet
gambling-
hair-loss
health-insurancedeals-4u
homeequityloans
homefinance
holdem
holdempoker
holdemsoftware
holdemtexasturbowilson
hotel-dealse-site
hotele-site
hotelse-site
incest
insurance-quotesdeals-4u
insurancedeals-4u
jrcreations
levitra
macinstruct
mortgage-4-u
mortgagequotes
online-gambling
onlinegambling-4u
ottawavalleyag
ownsthis
palm-texas-holdem-game
paxil
penis
pharmacy
phentermine
poker-chip
poze
pussy
rental-car-e-site
ringtones
roulette
shemale
shoes
slot-machine
texas-holdem
thorcarlson
top-site
top-e-site
tramadol
trim-spa
ultram
valeofglamorganconservatives
viagra
vioxx
xanax
zolus