Are you tired of having thousands of spam messages in your email just because you posted your email address in your blog or any site? Then this tweak is for you but before I give the remedy to that problem let me give you a short background on how these spam messages work.
Spam messages are delivered to you using spambots or spam robots. These spambots are automated computer programs that assist in sending spam. Spambots gather the information from blogs or sites like crawlers in search engines. They crawl and try to find email addresses found in that page. They are using regular expressions and other search methods in finding your email. Email hostings like yahoo and gmail use ways to block these spams but some of these messages can get through and you get annoying emails.
I found two ways of preventing your email to be found by these spambots.

1. One way of doing this is changing your @ symbol to @ . Both are the same and it works well.
   

   <a href="mailto:accountName&#64;domain.com">Email me</a>

   
   
2. The other one is a bit complicated but you don't need to understand all of it. This method uses javascript to obfuscate your email or simply an email obfuscator. You can go to the link below to obfuscate your email. Works great!
   

   http://www.codehouse.com/webmaster_tools/email_obfuscator/

But why am i posting this? Is this relevant to Search Engine Optimization? Yes it is relevant. With your blog coming to the top, these spambots will notice you and will begin to crawl your site. This can be harmful to you and to your readers who are posting their email addresses in their comments. If they found out that these spams originated from your blog then worst case scenario is that you'll reputation will be put at risk. Happy blogging. :D

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This is just a quick post to help us remind the factors that affect the ranking of our website or blog in search engines. In making a blog, always be reminded of the positive and negative factors in SEO.



Top Five Positive Factors

1. Keyword Use in Title Tag
2. Global Link Popularity of Site
3. Anchor Text of Inbound Link
4. Link Popularity within the Site
5. Age of Site

Top Five Negative Factors

1. Server is Often Inaccessible to Bots
2. Content Very Similar or Duplicate of Existing Content on the Index
3. External Links to Low Quality/Spam sites
4. Participation in Link Schemes or Actively Selling Links
5. Duplicate Title/Meta Tags on Many Pages
   

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As what I've discussed in some of my posts, getting traffic for your website or blog is one of the main goal in achieving a high revenues. You can do this by using Google Image Search, which is a tool to easily find images in the net by using phrases or keywords just like an ordinary web search.
A lot of people are using Google Image Search for a varied purposes, whether it is entertainment or pictures of cars.
Highly relevant images shows up at the top of Google Image Search which sends the owner of the site a great deal of traffic. And if you as a blogger can be on that list then it would be pretty good for you.

Google Images Search Optimization is much alike with the basic search optimization such as relevant keywords to the content and title. But Image Search Optimization has its own unique factors that affect the ranking of these images. Listed below is a list of tips on how you optimize your images for better traffic.

• Use keywords in your 'alt' text
  This is the basic of all image optimization tricks. You should always insert a phrase or a keyword in the alt text of the image. But always be sure that it is relevant to the content of the site. Example: <img src="file.jpg" alt="alt description here" >
• Use anchor text keywords in links to images
  When you have an image that has a link, let's say for example an image of harry potter which links to a full view of the picture itself that say's "click here to see full view". The phrase itself is general and doesn't help in optimization, instead use "Harry Potter in Azkaban" or "Harry Potter Photo".
• Use descriptive titles in naming images
  If you have an image of Optimus Prime dancing that has a filename of "Image0012.jpg" rename it to something like "Optimus-Prime-dancing.jpg" or "Optimus-dances.jpg". You can also rename the file that is the same with your alt text.
• Widen the categories of your images
  When you broaden the categories of your images it gives you more traffic. For example you have a blog which is all about Naruto, use other images like anime's that are alike with Naruto or any other anime that relates to Naruto. In this way the incoming traffic would probably be looking for some anime images. Remember, more traffic means more money.
• Use relevant texts or phrases around the image
  Take into consideration the texts around the image. Be sure to have a description of over 20+ characters below the image and make the text in bold.

These things are just the basic of Image Search Optimization. You can search the web for more advanced tips like putting adsense around the image, submitting your images to Google, making a page for every image in your site, etc. Don't just stop here, learn, learn, and don't forget to earn. :D

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