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Targeting Spam > September 30, 2011

Humor Blog Owes Success to Worldwide Spammers | GlossyNews ...

[GlossyNews.com] When asked to share some of the positive comments his humor blog has received, Quigley pulled out a stack of more than 30 pages of comments from spammers from as far away as Jakarta, Indonesia and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Here is a small sampling of some of his favorite comments from spammers singing the praises of his humor blog:

September 26, 2011

Spam Karma 2 Kicks AssJason Golod Blogs

[Jason Golod Blogs] Spam Karma 2 Kicks Ass. Posted In WordPress | 2 comments. Tweet. Ok, this blog has been getting pounded for the past couple of weeks with comment spam. I have tried just about ever WordPress Spam plugin there is and all of the ones ...

Posted at 04:03 PM

September 23, 2011

Livefyre does not block Wordpress Trackbacks

[Personal Blog of Justin Germino] However, I was able to remove GASP, Ajax Edit Comments, Akismet, ReplyMe, Subscribe to Comments by using Livefyre so using the Livefyre comment system allows me to remove 5 other WordPress plugins which reduces load on my blog and helps keep it trim. As Livefyre requires a user to return to your blog post to reply to a comment it was redundant to have ReplyMe installed and sending out a 2nd email to a user to return to the blog and comment since Livefyre automatically sends email when comment is replied to (unless user changes their Livefyre account to disable notifications).

Posted at 04:35 PM

September 05, 2011

Facelift « blog.mrstacey.org.uk

[blog.mrstacey.org.uk] Subscribe To Comments – Provides the option for people to subscibe to follow up comments. Trackable Social Share Icons – Another recent add.

Posted at 04:03 PM

July 18, 2011

Blocking Referrer Spam | The Hostmaster's Blog :: Web Hosting ...

[The Hostmaster's Blog :: Web Hosting Tutorials | cPanel Guides | UK Unlimited Domain Web Hosting] We've just been dealing with what can only be described as the worst case of Referrer Spam and Comment Spam on a client's wordpress blog site today... At.

Posted at 04:04 PM

July 11, 2011

SEO Sheffield | Blog Commenting Vs Blog Spam

[SEO Sheffied -] If you have a blog I’m sure you share my pain. Yes we could just turn off comments on our blog but that’s what a blog is for, to promote conversation around your chosen topic.

Posted at 04:06 PM

July 08, 2011

The Technology Blog: Spam Decreased 8222 Over The Past Year

[The Technology Blog] There were more than 225 billion spam emails sent per day in July, 2010, and today, that number has dropped to 40 billion.

Posted at 04:34 PM

Another Solution to Fight Blog Spam Core Web Solutions Blog

[Core Web Solutions Blog] By leaving comments on blogs with links back to whatever URL you put in the form, you could acquire oodles of oneway backlinks. WordPress by default comes with a URL field in the comment form that allows people to post their website address (URL) with their comment and it automatically links the URL to the name given in the name field.

Posted at 04:33 PM

June 20, 2011

Zach's Journal - Fighting blog spam with Common Lisp

[Zach's Journal] (defun spam-repl () (with-simple-restart (quit-repl "Leave spam-repl") (loop (with-simple-restart (skip "Skip URL") (format t "> ") (force-output) (let ((url (read-line))) (when (string-equal url "quit") (return)) (report-spam url))))))

Posted at 04:04 PM

June 06, 2011

Dealing with blog spam – Part 2

[Learning in the Social Workplace] I have now received a number of suggestions for dealing with the spam, so I’m trying one of them out right now – and consequently comments are now back on.

Posted at 04:05 PM

Dealing with blog spam

[Learning in the Social Workplace] I’m getting unundated with blog spam on this WordPress blog although Ido have an anti-spam plugin in place. I am going to have to close posts for comments temporarily whilst I sort it out.

Posted at 04:03 PM

May 13, 2011

DoFollow vs NoFollow Is Keeping Me Awake at Night | Esimple ...

[Esimple Studios Blog] I found your blog on the posting schedule of Nitty Griddy shared to me by a friend and I can say I’m glad that I came to visit because I have been thinking about the nofollow and dofollow issue as well. I am new in the blogosphere and am still taking small steps in shaping my blog, finding my voice and joining the blogging community, so I am trying to soak in as much information as I can.

Posted at 04:33 PM

May 02, 2011

Walt at Random » Blog Archive » Aggressive spam

[Walt at Random] Actually, I've gotten lots worse-but those are trapped by Spam Karma 2, and it's really difficult to transcribe the comments into a new post (you can't cut-and-paste from the review panel). Expect another post soon about the status of .

Posted at 04:09 PM

March 21, 2011

What You Should Know About Trackback Spam

[Tech-Seeker 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”. ...

Posted at 04:04 PM

March 11, 2011

Freakonomics » Held Hostage by our Blog

[Comments for Freakonomics Blog] Together, they’ll block huge amounts of spam comments. That will reduce the number of messages in the moderation cue.)

Posted at 04:35 PM

March 07, 2011

Code Golem | Anti-Referrer-Spam-Bot-Trap to Stop Referrer Spam

[Code Golem] In the last few days I had a bad surprise: most of the visits to my CodeGolem blog were actually Referrer Spamming Bots.

Posted at 04:03 PM

February 14, 2011

Referrer spam - CyberShadow's blog

[CyberShadow's blog] I got tired of pesky referrer spambots junking up my logs, so I decided to find a way to get rid of them. Turns out, almost all referrer spam on my blog is generated with a small number of User-Agents: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible;

Posted at 04:04 PM

200k and Referrer Spam « devioblog

[devioblog] This blog has been target of referrer spam recently, but thankfully this has died off again. The referrer was a blog behind an ad wall (does not seem to be a word yet) which .

Posted at 04:03 PM

February 07, 2011

Internet Marketing Latest Posts / Blog Profile

[The BlogCatalog Community Blog] This plugin will minimize your efforts in search engine optimization -- an important factor if you want traffic free, organic to your blog. This plug-in allows you to post unique META tags, META tags and descriptions if you are too lazy to update each page.description, keywords and page titles optimized for the search engines.

Posted at 04:05 PM

January 28, 2011

What You Should Know About Trackback Spam

[Puqee.com | make money in your house] 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”. ...

Posted at 04:33 PM

January 21, 2011

Eat Away at Blog Spam

[Puqee.com | make money in your house] All of these are known as spamdexing. Any website that accepts and displays hyperlinks may well become a target of blog spamming.

Posted at 04:34 PM

December 31, 2010

Dofollow and Nofollow in Link Building | Online sales leads secret

[Online sales leads secret] The dofollow and nofollow attributes are originally created by Google to reduce the amount of spam in the blogging community. Before it was implemented, many people like to leave their links in the comment body while commenting on the blog posts.

Posted at 04:34 PM

Targeting Spam > September 30, 2011

Humor Blog Owes Success to Worldwide Spammers | GlossyNews ...

September 26, 2011

Spam Karma 2 Kicks AssJason Golod Blogs

September 23, 2011

Livefyre does not block Wordpress Trackbacks

September 05, 2011

Facelift « blog.mrstacey.org.uk

July 18, 2011

Blocking Referrer Spam | The Hostmaster's Blog :: Web Hosting ...

July 11, 2011

SEO Sheffield | Blog Commenting Vs Blog Spam

July 08, 2011

The Technology Blog: Spam Decreased 8222 Over The Past Year

Another Solution to Fight Blog Spam Core Web Solutions Blog

June 20, 2011

Zach's Journal - Fighting blog spam with Common Lisp

June 06, 2011

Dealing with blog spam – Part 2

Dealing with blog spam

May 13, 2011

DoFollow vs NoFollow Is Keeping Me Awake at Night | Esimple ...

May 02, 2011

Walt at Random » Blog Archive » Aggressive spam

March 21, 2011

What You Should Know About Trackback Spam

March 11, 2011

Freakonomics » Held Hostage by our Blog

March 07, 2011

Code Golem | Anti-Referrer-Spam-Bot-Trap to Stop Referrer Spam

February 14, 2011

Referrer spam - CyberShadow's blog

200k and Referrer Spam « devioblog

February 07, 2011

Internet Marketing Latest Posts / Blog Profile

January 28, 2011

What You Should Know About Trackback Spam

January 21, 2011

Eat Away at Blog Spam

December 31, 2010

Dofollow and Nofollow in Link Building | Online sales leads secret

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