Targeting Spam

February 08, 2010

TnT Unleashed 1pic4twenty Blog » Blog Archive » Are spammers from ...

[TnT Unleashed 1pic4twenty Blog] Akismet, in particular, does a great job keeping many of the spam comments from appearing on blogs, but they still sit there in our moderation queue, and take up space on our server, until we go through them and delete them. We will always use moderation on our blog, as our blog is family friendly and many of the spam comments that we find in the moderation queue are certainly not family friendly, or they have links displayed that link to sites that are not family friendly.

Posted at 04:03 PM

Legal action launched against alleged spammers (ABC via Yahoo!7 ...

[|Legal Forum| Is It Legal To] The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is taking legal action against a Brisbane man allegedly involved in spamming mobile phone users with premium text messages.

Posted at 04:03 PM

February 05, 2010

Preventing Referrer Spam | DALESANDRO.NET

[DALESANDRO.NET] There is a plugin called Bad Behavior for WordPress that helps reduce referrer spam. As long as your log files are properly secured and not publicly available,

Posted at 04:34 PM

We Must Take Care of Some Black Hat SEO Techniques”¦

[Clipping Path & Design Service Provider's Blog] Black hat SEO practices will actually provide short-term gains in terms of rankings, but if you are discovered utilizing these spammy techniques on your Web site, you run the risk of being penalized by search engines. Black hat SEO basically is a short-sighted solution to a long-term problem, which is creating a Web site that provides both a great user experience and all that goes with that.

Posted at 04:32 PM

February 01, 2010

Spam Comments and Wordpress

[BS Wordpress Themes] Akismet is very accurate in recognizing spam comments. Spam Karma: Spam Karma is a plugin to prevent comment spam. It is designed to prevent all forms of automated comments. For more information on spam karma see http://unknowngenius. ...

Posted at 04:05 PM

Top Ten Spam Fighting Tools in WordPress

[WPTemplates.net | Free Wordpress Themes] Spam Karma: This second iteration of the popular plugin is no longer in development but still is a powerful tool to use for WordPress sites in preventing spam. The code is updated and works well currently.

Posted at 04:04 PM

January 29, 2010

Referrer Spam

[All Best News] The more inconvenient effect of referrer spamming would have to be the pop ups and junk mails. Once a user has been identified, the referrer spam will never cease to intervene with any online activity the user may be engaged in.

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Posted at 04:35 PM

Google Says, Referrer Spam Does Not Hurt Your Google Rankings

[Search Engine Roundtable] The technique involves making repeated web site requests using a fake referrer url that points to the site the spammer wishes to advertise. Sites that publicize their access logs, including referrer statistics, will then end up linking to the spammer's site, which will in turn be indexed by the search engines as they crawl the access logs.

Posted at 04:33 PM

January 25, 2010

joeware - never stop exploring”¦ » Blog Archive » Blog Spam

[joeware - never stop exploring...] Blog Spam. by joe @ 7:00 pm on 1/15/2010. http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&filter=0&q=%22The+tool+is+called+Gold+Finger%22&sa=N&start=0 · ...

Posted at 04:05 PM

Blog Spam: Message for Ignorant People

[Free Clickbank Products - cbreceipt] We will take measures against anyone abusing the comments system. Comments can be submitted to ask questions, inform us about dead links, maybe even giving us a new files source, but anything that is for your personal profit only is forbidden.

Posted at 04:04 PM

January 22, 2010

Website Referral Spam and Cyber Security Malware | Strangely Perfect

[Strangely Perfect] As for my website here, the recent referrer back-links are now gone as they made me look like a pointer to bad sites, and I’m not. Whether it’s possible for this sub-domain behaviour to be blocked, probably depends on the website owners, as it’s not the browser’s fault.

Posted at 04:35 PM

Produce A .htaccess File While not Referral Spam

[Internet Marketing Digital Publishing] A coalition of blogging and search engine companies have joined along to support an HTML attribute designed primarily to combat comment spam but have high potentials moreover for effective use against referral spam. This attribute is referred to as the rel =”no follow” is being praised by many bloggers as the final answer for the prevailing problem.

Posted at 04:33 PM

January 18, 2010

Comment on How do you Fight Trackback Spam? by Why iMarketOnMac ...

[Comments for ADS-Links.com Media and Internet Marketing] Looks like that just might do the trick as I will have it run alongside Spam Karma 2 AND Akismet when I make a final decision. Back to monitoring.

Posted at 04:14 PM

PoliGazette » Red Alert: Taliban Assault on Kabul - UPDATE

[PoliGazette] (5) Public figures are considered open to all substantive criticism of their policies and statements. Comments that present objectively false factual information about public figures (i.e.

Posted at 04:13 PM

January 15, 2010

Emergent Chaos: Comment Spam

[Emergent Chaos] We've been flooded with comment spam. I've added one of those annoying captcha things that don't work, and a mandatory comment confirmation page.