Even if you have one of the best spam filters on the market, some spam will always make it through. What is more important than having the best spam filter on the market is having the right spam filter for you. One spam filter doesn’t automatically benefit everyone, you need to find a spam filter that is best for your needs.

Pretty much everyone with a an email account has a certain amount of spam, even if you never visit any of the typical places that spammers harvest email addresses from, such as forums, chat rooms and other websites. All it takes is one spammer to find out that your email account is active and you will find your account will be flooded by more spam mail. One of the main reasons why there is so much spam around is because spam emails are so easy to create.

Many, if not all email users rely on some form of spam filter to block out spam emails as oppose to manually going through each individual email to delete them. However even when using spam filters some genuine messages can get caught up in the spam filter, meaning messages that you actually want/need to receive are getting deleted.

There are many different spam filters available today, all of which deal with spam in different ways. These spam filters vary in technique but by having so many different spam filters available, you are guaranteed to find one that is suitable to your needs.

One of these filters is a user defined filter. This filter is one that is already included in most email accounts. With this filter you can forwards mail to many different mailboxes. For example if you frequently receive mail from friends you can create a mailbox entitled friends and forward the mail from people you know to this mailbox. You can also forward mail to your trash if you are unsure of the sender and if the content of the email looks suspicious. By doing this you need to carefully look at the mail that you are receiving, you should be looking for characteristics and any recurring patterns in the senders email address or the subject line of the email.

Header filters are a more advanced filter, they look at the headers of emails to see if they are fake. The way in which this is done is because email headers contain information regarding the servers that were used to deliver your mail. Spammers don’t want to be traced so they put false information in the email header to stop people directly contacting them. Good spam filters can detect forged headers, showing what email is spam, however not all spam emails have fake headers.

Another filter; that is very specific is a language filter. These filters work by stopping emails that appear in another language. This filter won’t help people who receive a large quantity of spam as spam that appears in other languages isn’t really a major problem when it comes to spam. Spam that appears in another language only makes up a small quantity of the spam that we receive on a daily basis.

One of the more effective spam filters that will be of more help to a lot of people is a content filter. This filter scans all the text in an email to see if the content makes sense. It filters emails that appear “fuzzy.” Although this spam filter is effective at catching a lot of spam emails and will benefit most people when it comes to fighting spam, it can also filter out things such as newsletters that you are subscribed to.
Another filter that works well is a permission filter. This filter blocks all emails that don’t come from an authorised source. When you first set up this filter and go to send an email you will receive an automated response inviting you to visit a web page. On this page you will need to fill in some details. This will make your account authorised and any future emails that you send will be accepted.

When you choose your spam filter you should make sure that you get one that is right for your needs and that will stop the amount of spam that you are receiving.

Helen Cox is the web master of MySpamBin, home of all your Spam Filter needs.

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A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following; Straight texts, Photographs or images (photoblog), Video (videoblog), Audio files (audioblog) and Hyperlinks.

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes; Online journal or a web diary, Content managament system and Online publishing platform.

A typical blog has the following components; Post date, the date and time of the blog entry. Category, the category that the blog belongs to. Title, the title of the blog. Main body the main content of the blog. RSS and trackback, links the blog back from other sites. Comments, commentaries that are added by readers. Permalinks, the URL of the full article. Other optional items, calendar, archives, blogrolls, and add-ons or plug-ins.

A blog can also have a footer, usually found at the bottom of the blog, that shows the post date, the author, the category, and the ’stats’ (the nubmer of comments or trackbacks).

There are numerous types of blogs. Some of them are the following;

a) Political blog, on news, politics, activism, and other issue based blogs (such as campaigning).

b) Personal blog, also known as online diary that may include an individual’s day-to-day experience, complaints, poems, and illicit thoughts, and communications between friends.

c) Topical blog, with focus either on a particular niche (function or position) that is usually technical in nature or a local information.

d) Health blog, on specific health issues. Medical blog is a major category of health blog that features medical news from health care professionals and/or actual patient cases.

e) Literary blog, also known as litblog.

f) Travel blog, with focus on a traveler’s stories on a particular journey.

g) Research blog, on academic issues such as research notes.

h) Legal blog, on law (technical areas) and legal affairs; also known as ‘blawgs’.

i) Media blog, focus on falsehoods or inconsistencies in mass media; usually exclusive for a newspaper or a television network.

j) Religious blog, on religious topics

k) Educational blog, on educational applications, usually written by students and teachers.

l) Collaborative or collective blog, a specific topic written by a group of people.

m) Directory blog, contains a collection of numerous web sites.

n) Business blog, used by entrepreneurs and corporate employees to promote their businesses or talk about their work.

o) Personification blog, focus on non-human being or objects (such as dogs).

p) Spam blogs, used for promoting affiliated websites; also known as ’splogs’.

Blogging is typically done on a regular (almost daily) basis. The term “blogging” refers to the act of authoring, maintaining, or adding an article to an existing blog, while the term “blogger” refers to a person or a group who keeps a blog.

Today, more than 3 million blogs can be found in the Internet. This figure is continuously growing, as the availability of various blog software, tools, and other applications make it easier for just about anyone to update or maintain the blog (even those with little or no technical background). Because of this trend, bloggers can now be categorized into 4 main types:

Personal bloggers, people who focus on a diary or on any topic that an individual feels strongly about.
Business bloggers, people who focus on promoting products and services.
Organizational bloggers, people who focus on internal or external communication in an organization or a community.
Professional bloggers, people who are hired or paid to do blogging.

Problogging (professional blogging) refers to blogging for a profit. Probloggers (professional bloggers) are people who make money from blogging (as an individual blog publisher or a hired blogger).

Below are just some of the many money-making opportunities for probloggers; Advertising programs, RSS advertising, Sponsorship,
Affiliate Programs, Digital assets, Blog network writing gigs, Business blog writing gigs, Non blogging writing gigs, Donations, Flipping blogs, Merchandising, Consulting and speaking.

The following are a few things that you need to consider if you want to be successful in problogging;

a) Be patient. Problogging requires a lot of time and effort, not to mention a long-term vision.

b) Know your audience. Targeting a specific audience or group is a key to building a readership.

c) Be an ‘expert’. Focus on a specific niche topic and strive to be the “go-to” blogger on that topic.

d) Diversify. Experiment with various add and affiliate programs that enable you to make money online (aside from blogging).

e) Do not bore your readers. Focus on the layout. White spaces, line spacings, and bigger fonts make a blog welcoming to read.

Certainly, it is possible to earn money from blogs. One just needs to take risks, the passion, and the right attitude in order to be a successful problogger.

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