Millilinks – The Blog of a Million Links

A few recent listings in the Millilinks Directory offer some very beautiful items.

For some exquisite jewelry, check out this site:

Ocean Jewelry has many sparkling pieces that will complement any outfit. They have high quality bracelets, earrings and necklaces that you, or someone very special to you will cherish forever.

I think you’ll enjoy your experience browsing this site. They feature very unique designs set off with stunning photography.

Next up is another site with accessories to help make you look more beautiful, but with more of an antique bent:

Ignydesign.com offers wonderfully crafted pocketwatches, earrings, and cameos with great nostalgic styles.

For a truly unique item, check out their handmade leather journals! this would be an awsome gift for the person that is hard to buy for.

Hand-made items are very desired because of the time and dedication to making them. This next site offers handmade items richwith the culture of India:

Made with stunning craftmanship, these handmade items will become family heirlooms. Sculptures, jewelry, clothing, you name it. You can find an artisan that has just what you’re looking for.

You’ll also notice extremely reasonable prices for such high quality works. Wandering around the site, looking at the watercolors, pottery, and everything else, will be a statisfying experience. So you might as well buy something, too!

Well, it’s spring and it seems like new sites are popping up in the Millilinks Directory like dandelions after a storm!

So, let’s start this cavalcade of sites with possibly the coolest food delivery site on the net!

Ok, so it helps if you’re in Saigon! But if you’re there, don’t miss this place! The descriptions on the website make the food look delicious.

A Thai interpretation of the 50′s burger joint. I’d love to see this concept make it back to the states!

Now, if anyone has tried them, I’d love to hear some comments! Go to the Millilinks Burgeroi! review page and give us the full details of your experience

If pleasing people’s palates is your thing, check out this fresh look in vending machines:

Perfect for setting up a vending business! These vending machines are sure to attract customers! You’ll find high quality Italian machines for making expresso and coffee, plus great snack machines. Now you can give people a great product while putting yourself on track towards financial freedom!

I’ve been traveling all week, which seems to throw all sorts of plans and ideas into disarray! Nevertheless, I keep adding sites to the Millilinks directory and, since I’m traveling, I’d like to highlight some recent additions that will help make your travels a success!

First we’ll look at a beautiful spot to spend your vacation:

The pictures of this hotel will make ou want to book your flight to Ibiza immediately. I can’t think of a better place to spend some time relaxing!

but, if your travel plans are for the other side of the world, this next site will help you navigate your way around Hong Kong:

Hong Kong is a vibrant city, full of exciting events, great shopping, and a hopping nightlife! I visited Hong Kong about 10 years ago and long to get back there.

Now, if you are ready to go for this weekend, and want to find some great deals, here’s a sight that is just getting rolling, but promises to deliver your best last minute deals:

So, wherever you may end up in this world, make sure you enjoy the journey!

Running a little web site like this has it’s pluses and minuses. There are the joys of getting your highest amount of hits in a day or finally solving a problem with your code. But there are the lows, too! You have to keep up with a lot of little details, keep passwords straight and not try to hit anything when you type a wrong password in and get locked out of something for 20 minutes!

There’s also a lot of comment spam. Especially if you decide to set up a ‘do follow’ attribute to help attract visitors. Comment spam is a pain for those of us that legitimately want to promote our sites, and help others promote their sites. We have to carefully peruse the comments to make sure that we don’t miss a legitimate comment.

As I go through this process, it seems that several themes of comment spam constantly reappear.  And here is my list of the different types of comment spam I run in to (by the way, the quotes are actual comments I’ve had on my site):

• The Praise Comment: “Just wanna remark on few general things, The website style is perfect, the subject matter is real fantastic : D.” – This type of commenter will give you the most glowing praise about your post and your website, without ever mentioning a single specific bit of information about your site! It’s not that I don’t mind a few words of praise, but when I recieve ten of the exact same comments, all with different gmail and ymail addresses, I get a little suspicious that, maybe, there isn’t a real person behind these comments. 
• The Product Plug Comment: “I want to buy a laser pointer pen, where should i go?” – Well, ok, so they don’t all directly promote a product! Of course, the website that this poster listed is a site that sells laser pointer pens! But, hey, where’s the love for me? You know, the guy that wrote the piece you are reading? if you aren’t going to acknowledge my topic, why should I promote yours?
• The Help Desk Comment: “Thank you for the write up! Also, just a heads up, your RSS feeds aren’t working. Could you take a look at that?” – Well, either the RSS feeds are working, or this poor soul can’t find the RSS feeds, or there’s something wrong with your website. Where the praise commentor was playing on your ego, this commentor is playing on your inner worrier.
• The Newbie Comment: “I love the look of your website. I recently built mine and I was looking for some ideas for my site and you gave me a few.” – The newbie always needs help and, after all, we were all newbies once. So you would love to help them, right? Well, except the website they listed is usually nonexistent and (drumroll please!) They give a gmail or ymail address for their email! Since you have probably received 20 or 30 of these comments, chances are that any replies you make to that gmail address are not going to get seen.

Each of these catagories have countless variations. But there are several common denominatores that will tip you to a spam comment:

• Mangled English – In an effort to be unique, the poster will slip in whatever word they (or the computer generated script) can think of usually without any regard to grammatical structure. I don’t mind the problems that non-native speakers might have, but it’s pretty easy to spot when a sentence has been ran through a word changer.
• Non-specifics – When someone comments on the points of your post, but never mentions what the point of your blog post is, then you have probably have a spam comment!
• Weird website info – This is actually kind of confusing to me. Either the website info that they include in the post doesn’t exist, or it points to a completely bizarre site. For example, I had one comment that linked to a forum profile page that I couldn’t view because I had to be logged in. If the idea of comment spam is to try and get as many backlinks as possible, why bother linking to non-existent or inaccessable content?
• Bogus email info – When an email address is unrelated to any information the poster has presented, it seems likely that it will be a bogus email. Once again, if you’re motive is to create a successful on-line presence, why would you want to give misleading information?

It’s nice that people want to comment. But it has to be real people. not some automatic comment posting or