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Targeting Spam > 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.

July 11, 2011

My blog spam is getting more interesting | In Stitches

[In Stitches] Somerville NJ News - is the home page of Somerville NJ with in depth and updated Somerville local news. Stay informed with both Somerville NJ news as well as headlines and stories from around the world.

Posted at 04:05 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 24, 2011

Online Connections: Alert: A reminder to watch out for blog spam

[Online Connections] Bloggers who leave their blogs open and accept this type of comment automatically are a concern. They may even end up harming their regular readers or those who search and end their site.

Posted at 04:34 PM

JustLocal: Alert: A reminder to watch out for blog spam

[JustLocal] Bloggers who leave their blogs open and accept this type of comment automatically are a concern. They may even end up harming their regular readers or those who search and end their site.

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

Watermark: Blog Spam

[Watermark] Wow. Major spam attack here. My apologies if I have inadvertently deleted anything real.

Posted at 04:03 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

April 29, 2011

Reporting Forum or Blog Spam Easy As 1-2-3 | Forums Againstftas

[Forums Againstftas] Which is good in the fact that the spammer can no longer access anything on your site. But at the same time is really not very good because 1: the file can become very large which will slow your site down, and 2: spammers change IP addresses frequently, thus the large htaccess file.

Posted at 04:38 PM

Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/CslabSpamStats-2011-04-25

[Chris's Wiki :: blog] Our current threshold for calling something spam is 60 points or more.These numbers suggest that we could significantly raise the thresholdwithout having a material effect on our spam filtering; on the otherhand, since it would have no material effect there seems no reason todo it (other than possibly user perception, and I don't know if userspay any attention to this).

Posted at 04:34 PM

March 07, 2011

BROTHER THOMAS BLOG: Spam & Egg w/Bieber on the Side, pt. 1

[BROTHER THOMAS BLOG] I'm a pro at breakfast cooking and have quite authentically recreated the Snappy-style spam and egg sandwich and got Jackson hooked on it. Usually, Sunday morning he puts in his request for one .

Posted at 04:04 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

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Spam takes another hit: email ...

[Official Google Enterprise Blog] Today, we mark another notch in the spam-fighting belt: we’re making it possible for all Google Apps customers to sign their outgoing messages with DKIM, so their sent mail is less likely to get caught up in recipients’ spam filters.

Posted at 04:33 PM

December 24, 2010

Marginal Revolution: Enlightened blogspam, part II

[Marginal Revolution] Stephen Smith points our attention to some examples of quite good economics in blogspam. My example was here, and that comment attracted a lot of attention from subsequent spammers (some of that has since been erased).

Posted at 04:34 PM

Marginal Revolution: Enlightened blogspam, part II

Posted at 04:34 PM

10 Things I Learned About Blog Spam in 2010

[BizChickBlogs] I often moderate the same vague and strangely-worded comments like: “Yes, I agree with told all above” or “Very interesting point that you make.” Even though these comments come from different usernames or email addresses, they’re clearly the same spam. I’ve become savvy to such generic responses and can now easily get rid of them!

Posted at 04:33 PM

November 26, 2010

Are You Noticing An Increase In Blogspam Too? | The Blog Herald

[The Blog Herald] Bottom line is that no matter what the reason why blogspammers are doing what they’re doing, the current practice I’ve adopted is that if it looks like blogspam, smells like blogspam, and acts like blogspam, then it gets deleted like blogspam. In this particular case, the current practice here is that if I see a whole bunch of comments that look the same, they get put in the same bin.

Posted at 04:33 PM

November 01, 2010

Blog spam from computerrepairadelaide.com

[Another next big thing] Is it really worth showing up in a search for "computer repair Adelaide are spamming scum" or maybe "computer repair Adelaide ripoff con save your money" or "computer repair Adelaide .

Posted at 04:03 PM

Fighting Blog Spam

[Free Articles Directory] Once it begins, it does not take long before it becomes a nuisance and you are tempted to kill all commenting on your blog. There are other options, however, that will allow you to eliminate blog spam while allowing others to post relative comments.

Posted at 04:02 PM

October 25, 2010

Steve Kemp's Blog: A new Blog::Spam release.

[Steve Kemp's Blog] On the whole I'm pleased with the way that development has gone, and although I'm going to keep tinkering it is essentially "complete".

Posted at 04:04 PM

Targeting Spam > July 11, 2011

SEO Sheffield | Blog Commenting Vs Blog Spam

July 11, 2011

My blog spam is getting more interesting | In Stitches

July 08, 2011

The Technology Blog: Spam Decreased 8222 Over The Past Year

Another Solution to Fight Blog Spam Core Web Solutions Blog

June 24, 2011

Online Connections: Alert: A reminder to watch out for blog spam

JustLocal: Alert: A reminder to watch out for blog spam

June 20, 2011

Zach's Journal - Fighting blog spam with Common Lisp

Watermark: Blog Spam

June 06, 2011

Dealing with blog spam – Part 2

Dealing with blog spam

April 29, 2011

Reporting Forum or Blog Spam Easy As 1-2-3 | Forums Againstftas

Chris's Wiki :: blog/spam/CslabSpamStats-2011-04-25

March 07, 2011

BROTHER THOMAS BLOG: Spam & Egg w/Bieber on the Side, pt. 1

January 21, 2011

Eat Away at Blog Spam

Official Google Enterprise Blog: Spam takes another hit: email ...

December 24, 2010

Marginal Revolution: Enlightened blogspam, part II

Marginal Revolution: Enlightened blogspam, part II

10 Things I Learned About Blog Spam in 2010

November 26, 2010

Are You Noticing An Increase In Blogspam Too? | The Blog Herald

November 01, 2010

Blog spam from computerrepairadelaide.com

Fighting Blog Spam

October 25, 2010

Steve Kemp's Blog: A new Blog::Spam release.

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