Ok thanks, so I decided to do a highly themed run using the keyword for a site. And as I am spamming blogs that are exactly the same topic I decided to write a comment which also invited them to trade blogroll link with me as it is a good hand-written blog.
I wrote a spun comment (about 18% according to dupcheck), and 4 random user name, but same email and same url for all. Sent out about 1000 and 700 success.
However none of them seem to be indexed (I included a unique string to google for), so I wondered what was wrong as in the past I had got at least a few indexed.
So I tried to go to one of those blogs manually and comment with the same data. Guess what -- it says "discarded"! It was a wordpress.com blog as well so we know it is using Akismet.
Ok so I test some variations and I find that if I use my domain for the url or the email then it is discarded, otherwise it is ok. Therefore this means the domain is flagged as spam by Akisment I guess.
Now I can't even do manual commenting for this domain!
Can you tell me what I did wrong? And is there any way to get my domain un-flagged?
Thanks.
When you get the download, in the welcome message it has been clearly specified.
Read the
FAQ?s.
Read the
Do's and Dont's and follow them ardently.
few lines from Do's and Dont's
Don't, I repeat Don't use the SAMPLE files.
Use min 50 to 100 emails
Use min 50 to 100 UNIQUE comments
Use min 50 to 100 names /authors
Use good working HTTP proxies
Read the above mentioned again and try to find out what mistake(s) you have made ?
Now, apart from this, there are some other things you may also note:
Firstly, you may buy some cheap .info domains and 301 permanent redirect them to your main site.
Along with .info, you may also use some of the free domain services like .co.cc, .co.nr and .tk. All you need to do is setup some free domains and then redirect them to your main site, so that all the backlinks juice also gets transferred.
Now, to unlock your domain, all you need to do is, mail Akismet developers to remove your domain from the ban list and just tell them that one of your competitor had done this to get you domain banned.
Another Tip: Try and make some REAL/Manual comments with your fresh URLs as Akismet is a *learning* plugin and if around 20-30 comments from your domain gets approved, it automatically gets added into the whitelisted domains list.