Internet Profits Blog

GiftedSeo.com was a service promoted in late 2010 / early 2011 as a way to track your website rankings over time.

Initially, it was not clear that it was getting these results itself. It appeared that it was instead using another service.

Then after a couple weeks it completely went down. Perhaps the service it was relying upon did not like the fact giftedseo.com was trying to piggyback upon its efforts.

Anyway, that and mysql errors have doomed this service.

From the outset it was questionable why this was a free service (i.e., whether it might be harvesting your keywords).

If you see it again just avoid it.

There is a new online word and article spinner that is currently free.

Extreme Word Spinner

Other online word spinners only do a spin after you have submitted spin-ready text.

Extreme Word Spinner is a big step above because it lets you submit and article and then it automatically creates spin ready text from it.

While you do need to review and edit the spin read text to make sure each option still reads right, this can be a fast way to do this editing.

The other option is to go word by word and select synonyms.

Each method can be better depending on the article and your speed. But Extreme Word Spinner should at least be in your arsenal.

It is currently in beta and free. Hopefully it will stay free. There is no indication yet of what it will cost when it comes with a price.

Having tested EZ Comment Manager for having and administering comments across multiple static sites (without needing WordPress for users to submit comments)

The good:

- One admin install for all websites.

- Easy to use interface for the admin and where comments are placed on websites.

- Looks very nice on the website.

The bad:

- Encrypted script limits potential user customizations (or fixing script issues – see below).

- Forced advertising of the product in emails sent to commenters.

- Other than manually moderating each comment, no filters or spam controls are available in the admin area (such as bad words ban, IP ban, moderate depending on number of links in comment, etc.)

- Captcha uses O and 0 and it is hard to tell them apart.

The undocumented:

- The captcha must be entered in all CAPS or it will fail.

- Adding any html link in a comment causes the comment to be completely ignored. It cannot even be moderated for acceptance.

- Adding any line spaces in a comment, such as for paragraphs, is ignored. The script apparently strips them out. Adding < br > within a comment is also stripped out. Looking at the source code of the web page after a comment is added, the blank lines are there – but without a < br > they of course run together.

But what is odd is that in the admin interface an html link url can be manually added and the link will then appear. Also, blank lines created in the admin interface by pressing the [enter] key are ignored. But they can be created by manually inserting html such as < br >

- For some reason the script adds a blank nofollow link after a comment. This is only apparent when looking at the source code. There will be the comment, followed by a blank line, then an html link that is nofollow and opens a new page. But there is no link where a link should be, and no description.