Targeting Spam > August 30, 2010

HTTP Referrer Spam Checker

[JasonLau.biz] Referrer spam is when a person or bot fakes a link hit from another website to your website. So, when your logging script records the visit, it records the referring website address, which is also faked by the spammer.  Typically, the referral URL address leads to pornographic websites or those selling pharmaceuticals.

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Companies Just don't Get it about Spam!

[Untitled] As you can see this referrer spam is really malevolent, because of how many times it tries to hit my webpage. It is on different IPS but they wanted to make sure I know about http://dentistinbrooklyn.org and the Address: ...

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Posted at 04:03 PM

August 30, 2010

HTTP Referrer Spam Checker

[JasonLau.biz] Referrer spam is when a person or bot fakes a link hit from another website to your website. So, when your logging script records the visit, it records the referring website address, which is also faked by the spammer.  Typically, the referral URL address leads to pornographic websites or those selling pharmaceuticals.

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Posted at 04:04 PM

Companies Just don't Get it about Spam!

[Untitled] As you can see this referrer spam is really malevolent, because of how many times it tries to hit my webpage. It is on different IPS but they wanted to make sure I know about http://dentistinbrooklyn.org and the Address: ...

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Posted at 04:03 PM

August 27, 2010

ALERT: Don't Friend Facebook's Suggested Spammers

[All Facebook] and spam page walls and have no wall posts on their own profile, or have nonsensical ramblings like “can somebody make me happy”. The people who friend these profiles are truly the ones who need to be removed from the gene pool, esp if you fail to do your duty and report the damn things as fake.

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Posted at 04:36 PM

“Smoking Hot Bartenders” is Some Smoking Hot Facebook Spam ...

[Simon's Corner of the Web] Awesome..that is one he'll of a spamming. August 26, 2010, 8:47 pm. boris kukuru says. i got this virus on my facebook too. please tell me how i get rid of it. my friends at work all can see :(. August 26, 2010, 9:24 pm. Simon says ...

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Posted at 04:35 PM

August 23, 2010

WP Super Cache Spam Karma 2 fix

[WinnFreeNet.com] If you are using this plugin I need to know if it is working and what problems you have. I am right now trying to track down what causes the key to reset days or months after install.

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Posted at 04:04 PM

Antivirus » Tech Support to Install PC Tools® Spam Monitor

[Antivirus] The trademarks IYOGI, IYOGI (stylized), GREAT TECH SUPPORT GOOD KARMA, the iYogi character and any combination of these marks are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of iYogi Holdings Pvt Ltd and/or its subsidiaries and affiliates. All other trademarks, registered trademarks, company names, product names and brand names are the property of their respective owners, and iYogi disclaims any ownership in such third-party marks.

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Posted at 04:03 PM

August 20, 2010

Comment Spam: Phentermine, Xanax and Blackjack

[Make Money Online Guide] The reasons I comment spammed are no different to why our Phentermine, Xanax and Blackjack (oh my) friends are spamming my blog today, it’s money. If a comment spammed link counts as a backlink to Google the site gains valuable PR/link benefit which increase it’s SERPs over time.

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Posted at 04:33 PM

WordPress Comments and rel=nofollow

[Make Money Online Guide] My experience of owning blogs agrees with the above, most comments are indeed SPAM :-( So I fully understand why the WordPress developers have taken this step due to the plethora of blog comment SPAM currently plaguing the blogosphere, but it comes at a cost to WordPress users, real commenter’s no longer get a link back to their site and this is bad for blogging!

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Posted at 04:33 PM

August 16, 2010

New Twitter Tweet Button (Conveniently Without Nofollow Attribute ...

[Hobo] It’s not those links, it’s the link on the button you put on your website, is a straight link from the page, to Twitter’s domain. In the future, the target page could be modified to spread PR to the Twitter domain, although at the moment, there does seem to be a direct link on the share page anyway….

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Posted at 04:03 PM

paris-hotelfrance.com » Blog Archive » Flickr adds nofollow tags ...

[paris-hotelfrance.com] In the process of reviewing a client’s Flickr account with my colleague and fellow Searchlight blogger Brian Brown, we noticed that Flickr has recently added nofollow tags to links placed within its Web site. Flickr has been one of the few social-media entities to continue to offer “link juice”

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Posted at 04:02 PM

August 13, 2010

What You Should Know About Trackback Spam

[flash-video-blog] The flood of Trackback initiated by spammers can put a strain on server resources. The amount of Trackback spam that a site is getting may be seen by clicking on “Trackbacks” from the main blog menu and select “Junk Trackbacks”. ...

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Posted at 04:33 PM

Trackback Spam Explained | Best news site

[Best news site] by theimpulsivebuy Trackback Spam Explained In most blog applications, there is a feature called Trackback, which allows the user to send a.

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Posted at 04:32 PM

August 09, 2010

Dilemma: Spam or Not? | K-Squared Ramblings

[K-Squared Ramblings] If you are seeing what you consider to be referrer spam in your logs, please let me know (a) the URL that’s appearing and (b) the site whose logs it’s appearing in, so that I can scan my site for links. If you don’t want it made public, there’s a link to a contact form below the photo at the top of this page.

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Posted at 04:03 PM

referrer spam

[Free Hosting, Paid Hosting, Reseller Hosting & WebMasters Forum] does referrer spam hit on any of my monthly allowances? ...and is there a reliable way to stop it? I currently have a few sites blocked via .htaccess but some are still getting through - one in particular is showing as approx 10% of ...

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August 06, 2010

Make My Own Website - Stop WordPress Spam With Akismet | Do Wordpress

[Do Wordpress] Preventing the spam mention to progress reposted taking place the WordPress website. proviso a client repetitively violates spam rules, he is lastingly flagged so a spammer along with bottle thumbs down longer position interpretation taking place slightly column all the rage the WordPress website.A WordPress the human race exclusive of Akismet

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Posted at 04:34 PM

Help - Trackback spam | 8bitrocket

[8bitrocket] We are new to the WordPress world. While 99.99% of everything in this new land is awesome, there a a few annoyances. The biggest is the literal flood of Trackback link spam from “viral marketing” and “affiliate workers”. ...

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