Comment spam is a major annoyance for many blog sites, especially blogs that are "dofollow." Recently, we have been getting lots of attempted spam comments from places in India and Vietnam. I dug a little deeper, and it appears that these comments all originated from the same two IP addresses. And ... [More]

On a previous post, I explained how to track bit.ly short URLs on Twitter using Google Analytics through BlogEngine.net (sheesh, what a mouthful). After doing so, we ran in to the "fun" issue of googlebot crawling and indexing those URLs (ones with the query strings attached). So therefore, we neede... [More]

If you are using the ReTweet on your BlogEngine.net site, then you may be interested in this. I recently made another post on our blog regarding an update to the code that allows the use of special characters in the title through URL encoding. You can see that original post here. This is a second co... [More]

Here is an updated version of the mobile web browser detection and redirection in C-Sharp (#C) for ASP.net. For this to work best, you should add it to the "Application_BeginRequest" event of the global.asax file, located in the root directory. If you use it, please give us some recognition,&nb... [More]

I found a really neat website that crawls blogs, indexes the comments, and categorizes them based on the provided backlink. It seems to pick up new posts rather quickly. Looks like a 2-3 day turnaround. Check it out!Site link: BackType.com

I recently came across a great Twitter extension for BlogEngine.net that allows for quick tweeting of a post. The name of the extension is ReTweet, and the original author, Krishnan, has posted the code and an installation walk-thru on his blog, located here. The extension even includes functionalit... [More]

We seem to be experiencing an issue with our CSS. Please be patient while we track down the problem. Thanks! UPDATE: ALL IS WELL AGAIN.  

PrefaceWe recently switched over our blog from Google's Blogger to the BlogEngine.net platform. One issue we immediately ran in to is the instant attraction of spammers looking to build their backlinks by making ridiculous one-liner comments that are not only generic responses (ie. nice post, thank ... [More]