What Do You Do with WordPress "New User Registrations"?

by im1217

Posted: 13 years ago 6 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

I have a WP blog that has been getting a lot of new user registrations lately. How can I market to these people? Are they on a list? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

#new user registrations #wordpress

JohnMcCabe

13 years ago

Originally Posted by im1217

I have a WP blog that has been getting a lot of new user registrations lately. How can I market to these people? Are they on a list? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

The first step is to make sure that these are actually people. Awhile back, I had a quick flush of new registrations and every single one of them was bogus. It was a robot looking for backlinks and the ability to spam comments.

I just flushed them, deleted their garbage, and moved on. Since nothing stuck, they've either taken my urls off their list or given up. I lean towards the former...

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Istvan Horvath 13 years ago

Settings > General: Membership - UNCHECK the box.

Unless it's a "community type" blog you do NOT need any registrations. Simply, don't allow it. Problem solved
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SteveJohnson 13 years ago

^^^ What John and Istvan say. They're likely not real people, just bot visits.
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im1217 13 years ago

I think you guys are right. Thanks a lot!
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sbucciarel Banned 13 years ago

Marketing to bots is not very productive. lol. I delete them.
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im1217 13 years ago

Deleted and settings changed!
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