Social Publishing

Dealing with Instagram spam

Since my older posts about getting rid of spam on Instagram and stopping and preventing your account from sending spam are still quite popular, I decided to revisit the subject with an updated post. Instagram has changed quite a lot between then and now. This includes many changes to the algorithms, which dictate the reach of your images. With all these changes, spam hasn't gone away. As a matter of a fact, spam has only evolved. Now you aren't only dealing with spambots, but also using spammy methods for growing otherwise legit profiles and their following and reach, is extremely common...

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Why I am not leaving Twitter or Facebook

I have been mulling over leaving Twitter and Facebook, or at least using them much less. The thought on Facebook has been there for a while, because to the service is bringing people's awful sides out and the algorithms are making choices in my behalf. Over at Twitter the things have been getting worse and worse too. While bullies and white supremacists are reigning, the folks in charge of the service are sitting on their hands. Either they are ignoring the complaints, or are making pointless technical changes. And now, with the 280 character long Tweets enabled, my Twitter timeline is...

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Do you miss blogs? Here's what to do.

"Twitter threads are like hard to read blog posts. I miss blogs." I know, they are hard to read. Annoying. I often skip them, because I use Tweetbot and it doesn't fare well with threads. It can render them completely unreadable, especially if there are any replies to the Tweets in the thread. I have a complicated relationship with Twitter threads. I share them, but mainly refrain from writing them myself. I know I can be wordy, which would make my threads longer than ones you've seen. Plus since I don't like them that much, I don't want to submit my followers to my overly long rants. Hey,...

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Notes about starting a podcast – branding, quality, hosting, and other things

I'm starting a podcast. Yes, you read correctly. The writer girl is going to start talking. And yes, it's a work in progress. First of all, I'd like to have a good start. Make a solid first episode, with quality sound (not too quality, I'll come back to this in a moment), and have impactful cover art. This all doesn't happen in a day, at least not for me. And then I have stumbled upon the big question about podcast hosting. Not that there weren't options. Maybe there are too many. Besides, it gets a bit confusing. I have been doing lots of research about podcasting, and I wanted to share...

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Six atypical tips for better blogging

Are you stuck with your blogging? Do you feel your blog posts lack of personality, could have better quality, need a kick? Those who have been blogging a lot may easily find themselves fed up with it. In case you blog traffic isn't impressing, shares aren't happening and comments aren't coming in, you want to become a better blogger. To be honest, even for the best and most successful ones there's always room for improvements. The thing is, you've already read all the advice and all the tips for improving your blogging and they haven't really helped you that much. This is why I'm now giving...

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50+ Instagram hashtags for more likes, comments and followers

You can do many things to gain more likes, comments and followers on Instagram. You can indulge in follow-unfollow-scams, which isn't quite smart and may get you reported and blocked as a spammer. You can try liking for likes, but it's not very effective. You can try leaving comments to other people's posts, but forget about leaving generic and thoughtless ones. I have a simple recipe for more comments, but on top of that I utilise lots of hashtags. Hashtags, in the end, are the best way to get your posts in front of other Instagram users, which then leads to more likes, comments and followe...

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Moderating comments

I've tried many methods during all these years. Some of them have been more successful than others, some have failed terribly. Fighting comment spam could easily become a full time job. I had been using Mollom for quite a while, and been somewhat happy with it. It wasn't perfect, but it mostly did what it should. Mostly. Then something changed. I still don't know what went wrong, but the service started to break down. My site wasn't connecting with their servers, or there was horrible lag in the connection. I tried modifying the time out settings, which helped for a while and then the proble...

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