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This blog was the first blog that I ever setup and I can tell you that I was the biggest blogging dummy there is. If you are as ignorant as I was about blogging in the beginning you probably are as big of a blogging dummy as I was.

I was such a blogging dummy that I had no idea what a blog was or how powerful of a marketing tool a blog really is.

I’ve been in Internet marketing for a long time but I’ve always owned html websites. With what I know now about blog websites and the benefits that come with a blog I will never go back to an html website again.

Here’s what a blog is in case you are just as big of a blogging dummy as I was. The word blog is short for weblog, which is basically an online journal. At least that was the idea of a blog in the beginning and a lot of bloggers still use a blog for this purpose but blogs have morphed into much more than that over the years.

Over time, online businesses saw the potential of setting up a blog and monetizing it so that they could do business from the blog because of the built in tools that would help them drive potential customers to their website.

In case you are a real blogging dummy and have never come across a blog until now, wordpress is the best and most powerful blog software out there because of its flexability and because you have full control over what you want it to do and look like. Wordpress is a free standalone blogging software and was perfect for a blogging dummy like me because of its ease of use. You can find wordpress here.

If you own an online html website and are not doing well with it, it might be a good idea to move it over to a blog because it will be a lot easier to get traffic with a blog. I know that you are still a blogging dummy but the best way to learn how to use a blog is by actually using it. I know it was for me.

You can find more info on blogging here. First go and download wordpress because it will be a lot easier to learn it as you go. You won’t be a blogging dummy for long because it is pretty easy to learn. I was a blogging dummy and I can tell you that I now have it down cold.

Because of what happened to this blog overnight last night compels me to post this.

If you have a blog and don’t use any kind of spam filtering plug-in you are asking for trouble. I woke up this morning to 102 spams that were caught by spam karma.

The moron who attempted to spam this blog must have been using some sort of submission software because he or she attempted to post a comment to every, one, of the posts in every category on this blog.

If I didn’t have a spam filter in place I would have a serious mess to clean up after because some jerk thought that spamming a blog would be beneficial to his or her marketing approach.

The spammer has absolutely no clue on how to market because he or she didn’t even bother to try to spam a blog that is relevant to the product he or she is promoting. I don’t think that IM and Insurance quotes are real relevant.

Anyway, the point is, if you don’t yet have some kind of spam protection in place get it done right away. There’s no excuse not to. WordPress comes with Akismet so if you have a WordPress blog you don’t even have to find a plug-in for it. You only need to activate it.

Just because you haven’t had a problem with spam to this point doesn’t mean that you never will. At some point in time a spammer will find you. Make sure that you are protected when that happens.