I have just sat and read the entire thrad of 25 pages looking for the answer to this same question. I have a static ip and simply followed the example in the video and the support files that came with the software and didnt realise there could be a problem with static ips until I had already posted several thousand links with the software. Now im trying to make sure that ASKIMET havent blocked my ip.
I did find this on Google:
http://www.dnsqueries.com/en/check_banned_ip.php
Here is another one I found:
http://www.blacklist.ie/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
But I dont think either of them specifically checks with ASKIMET.
Could someone please give a rough idea of the percentage of wordpress blogs that this software can post to that use ASKIMET?
And also does anyone know how you can check your ip address with ASKIMET?
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 ?
To check if your IP is banned by Akismet, just make a real comment to any wordpress site with your IP and see if it goes through. (if its written awaiting moderation, tht mean your IP isn't banned). To answer your other question, generally arnd 30% blogs out there use Akismet.
Also, if you have a static IP, you should avoid using it for doing spamming on a large scale, you can just buy some 800 private proxies from ProxyFirewall for $35 and use them with any Proxy Switcher like Proxifier.
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.