Targeting Spam > April 28, 2008

WP-SpamFree Update - New Features, Including Trackback Spam Protection

WebGeekhttp://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/2008/04/wp-spamfree-update-new-features-including-trackback-spam-protection.php [WebGeek] Now you can display your spam stats on your blog. Simply insert the code into your theme and you can show off how much spam you’re not getting anymore.

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Fighting Referrer Spam

Doug's Dynamic Drivelhttp://www.thealders.net/blogs/2008/04/21/fighting-referrer-spam/ [Doug's Dynamic Drivel] If I don't know you and I suspect you may be a comment spammer you will be asked to confirm the comment via email. If you give me a false email address or do not respond to the verification email your comment will be deleted.

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Posted at 04:03 PM

April 28, 2008

WP-SpamFree Update - New Features, Including Trackback Spam Protection

WebGeekhttp://www.hybrid6.com/webgeek/2008/04/wp-spamfree-update-new-features-including-trackback-spam-protection.php [WebGeek] Now you can display your spam stats on your blog. Simply insert the code into your theme and you can show off how much spam you’re not getting anymore.

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Posted at 04:04 PM

Fighting Referrer Spam

Doug's Dynamic Drivelhttp://www.thealders.net/blogs/2008/04/21/fighting-referrer-spam/ [Doug's Dynamic Drivel] If I don't know you and I suspect you may be a comment spammer you will be asked to confirm the comment via email. If you give me a false email address or do not respond to the verification email your comment will be deleted.

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Posted at 04:03 PM

April 25, 2008

Spam Karma

Mega-zblog[Mega-zblog] And it was very simple to drop in with zero configuration, except the “N spam messages quashed” footer doesn’t seem to be working, I’ll fix it later.

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Posted at 04:44 PM

Must Have Plug-Ins for Word Press Blogs

She Unlimited , Daily Confection, Magazine Beauty and TV For Womenhttp://www.sheunlimited.com/forums/showthread.php?t=6995 [She Unlimited , Daily Confection, Magazine Beauty and TV For Women] Google Page rank has started a new race among website owners to spam blogs for a back link. If you have a high page rank for your blog you will end spending most of your time deleting the spam comments.

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Posted at 04:40 PM

April 21, 2008

Wordpress plugin for referrer spam

STONE DEAF PILOTS - the deaf tech bloghttp://www.stonedeafpilots.com/?p=90 [STONE DEAF PILOTS - the deaf tech blog] I’ve been noticing a lot of referrer spam in my logs, so I installed this plugin that blocks referrer spam. Hopefully it won’t cause my posts to break on RSS readers and blog aggregators.

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Posted at 04:05 PM

Is MSN Lying About Their Referrer Spam?

Slightly Shady SEO[Slightly Shady SEO] Now, on the ancient hosting account, I NEVER updated any databases or software to combat MSN’s referrer spam cloaking detection. All of my domains(as it has been verified) behaved exactly how MSN would expect them to(yes, every single domain on this account cloaks).

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Posted at 04:03 PM

April 18, 2008

Blackhat SEO - A Bunch Of Rankers

Full text internet-marketing | search-engine-marketing articles - Content for Reprinthttp://www.content4reprint.com/internet-marketing/search-engine-marketing/blackhat-seo-a-bunch-of-rankers.htm [Full text internet-marketing | search-engine-marketing articles - Content for Reprint] In it 's purest form this basically refers to leaving comments on blogs, with a link back to their website. But you can imagine how long this process would be searching for blogs and commenting on each of them, so the blackhats usually buy or more often code their own software to automate this process.

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Posted at 04:34 PM

Matthew Helmke: Trackback spam

Ubuntu on SWiKhttp://swik.net/Ubuntu/Planet+Ubuntu/Matthew+Helmke:+Trackback+spam/b4dph [Ubuntu on SWiK] I've had a recent rash of trackback spam, so I am considering turning the trackback feature off. In the last seven months, only spammers have used it anyway. However, I have installed a spam baysian filter that I want to play with and ...

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Posted at 04:33 PM

April 14, 2008

RE: My prediction: rel = "nofollow" will not prevent comment spam

Dylan Greene dot com - Comments[Dylan Greene dot com - Comments] Here is my share. Posted by: Mark (http://www.winningponies.com/results/picks/tips/Kentucky-Derby-2007.html) Blog Post: My prediction: rel = "nofollow" will not prevent comment spam.

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Posted at 04:05 PM

An Ecthical Way To Comment Spam?

ping.sg / latesthttp://ping.sg/read/An_Ecthical_Way_To_Comment_Spam_ [ping.sg / latest] Lately, I have been getting quite a number of comments that are relevant, yet not relevant and Akismet let them pass through as legitimate comments. If it sounds confusing I’m sorry.

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Posted at 04:03 PM

April 11, 2008

Blog Referral Spam: The Signs And How To Avoid It

blog2life.co.ukhttp://www.blog2life.co.uk/blog-spam/blog-referral-spam-the-signs-and-how-to-avoid-it/ [blog2life.co.uk] Well you’d be surprised the excitement of having your website featured in a video could be on reason, as I have found on other sites the people have presumed that anyone in their blogshpere is their friend, right? Well It would appear not, as you know never to download any dodgy looking files from your email in box we need to take the same approach with this new form of spam and be more wary.

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Posted at 04:33 PM

youtube referral spam

Photochopz.com - Photoshop Forums Contests and Tutorialshttp://www.photochopz.com/forum/webmasters-area/27570-youtube-referral-spam.html [Photochopz.com - Photoshop Forums Contests and Tutorials] Whats up with the recent barrage of youtube refferal spam? Is this some new trend? usually we only get referral spam from p0rn or v1agra sites but recently its been mostly from crappy youtube videos. Anyone else getting a lot of this?

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Posted at 04:32 PM

April 07, 2008

Spammers Aren’t So Smart After All!

The WWW Observerhttp://www.tw3o.com/spammers-arent-so-smart-after-all/ [The WWW Observer] Now, I’m not encouraging you guys to think of better spamming techniques and bomb other blogs with spam. I’m just trying to tell everyone that even if you think of different ways for your spam to bypass the moderation queue, we can still detect your spammy motives!

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Posted at 04:04 PM

Sphinn Spammers are Stupid

blogstormhttp://www.blogstorm.co.uk/sphinn-spammers-are-stupid/ [blogstorm] Take a look at the submission below for example, this user has picked probably one of the most competitive niches in the UK to target and the cornerstone to her linkbuilding activities are submitting spam posts to Sphinn without even bothering to disguise it as a Top 10 Tips for SEO’s to Save on Car Insurance article.

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Posted at 04:02 PM