Although we will be making even more significant changes through this week (adding plugins, new themes for your use), your blog, assuming you survived the mass deletion, should be fully functional. If it is not, please let us know immediately and we will rectify the situation as quickly as we can.

As always, we appreciate your continued patience.

Thus far, all blogs have been created and all blog posts have been migrated, but there may be images missing.

Also, all blog posts have been created and marked as Uncategorized. We will not be able to migrate your old categories over, so you will have to spend some time re-categorizing and tagging your blog posts.

Some of our international users may find some issues with viewing a post page. This is due to foreign letters in the title of a post. You can either change the title (or post slug on the right-hand of the post edit screen) or we can disable urls based on post title for you.

The reason we’re considering this is because WP is very easy to run, both as a blogger and an administrator.  I have not posted many entries in here but I have reported to my co-workers that I find it somewhat confusing and awkward to use.  The feedback I received from them was that our administrative efforts should be used on promoting the webiste and our bloggers, not wasting time and effort deleting spam blogs and trying to keep up with new ways of stopping spam comments. 

If anyone has any feedback, pro or against moving to WordPress, I would like to hear it, as the last thing we want to do is inturrupt anyone’s blogging.  Thank you.

Steve 

Why spam in the first place?  Since search engine rankings are at least partly determined by the number of links pointing to your site, spammers go after blogs to stick links in to their site with the hope of the search engine spiders picking up those links.  In more extreme cases spammers will create blogs (I personally deleted about 40 here) for the sole purpose of creating backlinks to their site or sites.

Why can’t search engines determine what is spam?  In short, they can and do-spammers are complelty wasting their time.  Most blogs either strip out the HTML and Javascript or add the rel="nofollow" attribute to the link.  When search engines come across links that are marked as rel="nofollow" they are simply, as the name suggests, not followed.  These types of links provide quite literally no benefit to the spammer.

How else can we combat spam?  Believe it or not, most spam is not done by robots.  People put "captchas" (those hard-to-read graphics with random letters and numbers) to ensure live people are sitting there entering comments.  The sad fact though is that people, largely in Asia, get paid to spam.  When it’s live people who can read the captchas, there’s really no good means of stopping it altogether.  The most effective way we’ve found is simply running a timed script every 30 seconds or so that queries the database for comments that look spammy and a quick review by a live person here will either delete them or allow them to be posted.

More tomorrow! 

New Design: The new design, largely already in place, will hopefully attract new bloggers to the site by clearly demonstrating what is available. This design is more “updated” than the standard template and is hopefully more clear visually.

Deletion of Spam Blogs: We have already gone through all the existing blogs and deleted any that were created for the sole purpose of providing backlinks to other sites. If this community is going to grow, then it needs to be as free as possible of blogs that reflect poorly on the community at large.

Spam Comment Moderation: Within the week our comment spam filter will be finished and applied to all existing and future blogs. With this new filter, you will be able to leave your comments on without worrying about being inundated with spam while still being able to receive real comments about your posts. As a back-up, our internet will be reviewing all incoming comments and deleting spammy ones the filter does not catch.

Increased Promotion: We have outlined a path to increase the visibility of not only tennerblog.com but the blogs it houses. Consider this a healthy compliment to whatever promotional methods you are already participating in.

We will happily take any feedback to you have that you think will make the community as a whole better. Thank you and happy blogging.

What is a TennerBlog?

TennerBlog is a free blogging service exclusively for those looking to blog about business, finance and webmastering.

Why own a TennerBlog?

Our advanced members area makes owning a tennerblog super-easy! We have many quality templates and all blogs are SEO friendly. You can create photo albums, business friend lists, unlimited categories and posts.

Why is owning a TennerBlog Different to a normal blog?

For a start we are exclusively for business and finance related bloggers. Secondly our members area helps you with things other blog providers dont! We give you free promotion help and profit help! We also give you advice on writing posts, and links to other great resources.

They are just some of the reasons to join our community!

Join Now!

TennerBlog is officially opening on Feb 1st, although you can get in on the action early by registering your account today - all features are up and running so get building peoples!

TennerBlog is a business and finance blog service exclusively for business and finance bloggers. The features in our members area reflect this and we have lots of future plans as well!

Any questiones please e-mail admin@tennerblog.com

Thanks, Chris - TennerBlog Owner.

The site is now fully functional and ready for new members to join and build a great blog.

Our aim is to provide a feature packed, reliable, and free business blogging service to build up a great business community.

Any questions about the service please get in tocuh via the contact form, you can visit this from our home.