Our MyST Blogsite generates highly qualified leads compared to other venues of online lead generation. One of the primary reasons is we have a trust factor, which we built (and continue to build) by providing dependable and accurate information through the blogsite. As a result, actions are more meaningful for business and the customer."
We've recently been hammered with many new types of aggresive crawlers, comment spam, and SEO code injection attacks.
There's only one thing we hate more than telling a client their blogsite is down - it's that their blogsite content is gone.
Knock wood - we've never had to say that and there are very good reasons that will not be disclosed publicly. But even in the face of aggressive systems - some automated and mostly designed only to inflict damage - we're winning this battle. It requires diligence, clear thinking (which can be difficult without sleep), and it also requires us to think like Inter-web Evil-doers from time-to-time. ;-)
We're presently chipping away at these problems which range from SQL Injection attempts to blog-comment-spam sweat-shops. Progress is evidenced by this post - our own website *is* a blogsite, so when our clients are down - we are too.
Thanks for your patience as we continue to harden the security shell and improve performance.
I spoke with a group of bloggers in Phoenix recently. What I found is that very few had any business from their blogs despite a lot of effort. I have 5 closings and 7 active buyers directly from [our MyST blogsite] in 2008. I know because I ask. One person told me they have been reading my blog for almost a year before they called me to buy a property."
