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By: Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab | Calvin Harvey dot Com

Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab | Calvin Harvey dot Com — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:49:22 +0000

[...] started 2008 with a post that went viral on StumbleUpon and BloggingZoom. Even Skellie and Caroline Middlebrook took the story back to their respective blogs. For those interested, the post in question was How I [...]

By: Mandy

Mandy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:31:38 +0000

I haven’t visited for a while so I would just like to say I really like your new design, very sleek and easy to read.

And I am looking forward to reading your new ebook!

By: Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab

Fighting Scrapers With Your Left Jab — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:17:07 +0000

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:25:13 +0000

@Peter, yeah I really should have thought more about a possible ‘update’ list before releasing the book but we live and learn.

@Mark, hmmm I hadn’t thought about the blacklist issue, I most certainly wouldn’t want to be marked as a spammer! To be perfectly honest, if i was going to start a list for myself then I would definitely use AWeber, but I wanted to have a go at using Phplist simply because it’s free and it’s then something I could write about which gives me good content for the blog :)

By: What Sells Online

What Sells Online — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:19:02 +0000

Congratulations on your book. I’ve downloaded it without needing to provide my email address. Anyway, I think it’s a comprehensive resource for new internet marketers who are just starting out with their first WordPress blog.

I’ve reference to it in my latest blog post – Building a niche blog for top search engine rankings

Cheers!
Samantha
http://www.what-sells-online.com

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:32:47 +0000

Agree with Nobody, aweber & getresponse seem to be the choices (and have been for a while). One thing to consider is deliverability – the major email services like these put a good deal of effort (and $$s) into making sure their emails get through spam filters. If you send emails from your own server you could get hit by spam complaints, and being blacklisted ain’t pleasant!

BTW – congratulations of hitting 1,000+ subscribers! Great job.

Cheers
Mark

By: Nobody

Nobody — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:12:54 +0000

Hi Caroline

Today most people are going for aweber or getresponse especially on the Internet Marketing niche, but I think phplist make an excellent choice for beginners knowing that with a good tweaking no need for paid list manager.

There only one black point, the auto responder feature is missing, the good news is that some users has developed custom mods to these functionalities, but you need to have a strong php skills to implement them, and since my php skills are like my old shoes, your future posts about phplist will be more than happily welcomes, many thanks in advance :-)

and thank you for sharing these url, especially the one for piggybankpie post, I found lot of useful information on it, I will certainly use these techniques (not the paid one) along with the techniques I’m learning on the January Thirty Day Challenge.

Regards

By: Israel

Israel — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:22:16 +0000

Thanks for the mention, it is much appreciated. I encountered the same situation with releasing my free ebook. I decided against collecting emails, because I wanted the book to be downloaded with out barriers too.

Maybe next time I will focus on building the list…

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:36:17 +0000

Just a thought Caroline that meets your soft approach.

I would be happy to opt-in to an advanced info list.
Even just knowing more suggested/recommended plug-ins would be great. You can have my email for that!!

Also I would obviously love to subscribe to know what part 2 of the WP ebook was out.

AFAIK I have no way of doing that currently?

I really would add a page to the book, promoting that.
They can just ignore it if they want.

JM0CW
Peter