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Targeting Spam > March 08, 2010

6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed

[Six Revisions] I know WP Spam free claims they never have false positives, but I get them on 3 of my favorite blogs when I try to comment. I have cookies enabled, including third party cookies, and have contacted the company to find out why I’m being blocked from commenting and how to fix it but they’ve never responded –

March 08, 2010

Comment Spam - a Huge Problem for Word Press Blog Owners - BlogSouls

[BlogSouls] Google has taken the first step against comment spam by banning or penalizing both the websites and the host blog. Wordpress blogs are hardest hit because most webmasters do not install the module that prevents people from entering a link into the comment.

Posted at 04:02 PM

March 05, 2010

Startup Helps MSM Sites Become Search Engine Spammers - Winds of ...

[Winds of Change.NET] The company is selling a service and technology to its MSM clients, who bear responsibility for its operation against content that they have bought or licensed.

Posted at 04:34 PM

Six Types of Social Spammers | Search Engine Journal

[Search Engine Journal] Even after the encounter I still saw on several occasions spammers joining chat rooms or forums that had explicit warnings about spam getting removed as soon as a comment was posted. It’s because of this I call this type “Suicide Spammers”.

Posted at 04:32 PM

March 01, 2010

Nofollow: Twitter Now Distrusts Everything You Say | SEOptimise

[SEOptimise » Blog] The USP is the delete button that we can hit if twitter start trying to sell our content back to us unless it benefits our clients which is what its all about, they can get the benefit of a listing other ways. That said, we suspect Twitter will be forced to go back to its old ways or atrophy and die with the likes of Google Buzz et al and the wedding of Microsoft and Yahoo, our view, don’t dismiss it out of hand, we’ve seen over the decade and more that many major events have a habit of going back on themselves.

Posted at 04:06 PM

Online Marketing Blog » Blog Archive » Nofollow: Twitter Now ...

[Online Marketing Blog] Twitter and nofollow is the topic of this week’s Twitter column: While even Google who has introduced, along with other search engines, the nofollow attribute to combat spam a few years ago does not propagate the use of it anymore, Twitter went nofollow big time just recently. What does this mean?

Posted at 04:03 PM

February 26, 2010

TMA Forums Giveaway: Win an iPod Touch + iTunes Gift Cards ...

[TouchMyApps] It is based on a “referral system”, one where 10 points will be awarded every time you (forum member) refer someone to register and join the TouchMyApps Forums. Important note: In order for your referral to count, he/she must have made a minimum of 1 post (non spam and relevant to topic/discussion) before the contest officially ends.

Posted at 04:34 PM

Create A .htaccess File Without Referral Spam

[Business center] This nuisance is being referred to as comment, trackback and referrer spams. Various solutions have been proposed with some being applicable to even two of these forms of spam using a single solution. What is Referral Spam? ...

Posted at 04:33 PM

February 22, 2010

Twitter Nofollow - My 7 Day Ultimatum

[Andy Beard - Niche Marketing] What Twitter are saying in this most recent change is that the people I associate with and have regular conversations with on Twitter are not to be trusted, and that all juice should go to their blogroll icons in the sidebar which are the people I most recently followed – really funny with accounts that autofollow people back is that most of the blogroll links on their accounts are to spammers.

Posted at 04:03 PM

NOFOLLOW tags in blogs | Learning Blog

[Learning Blog] nofollow Tag The nofollow HTML attribute was originally designed to stop comment spam on blogs. Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel="nofollow" attribute .

Posted at 04:02 PM

February 19, 2010

TOPSITES Referrer Spam getting up my nerves | Share Commons

[Webmasters] There may be many who already know what I’m talking about, but for those who are still in the blues, when I say referrer spam, it means that when I check my web traffic, I see the referring URL of the website from where a visitor landed on my site. Lately, I have noticed an increasing trend of referring URLs that have nothing to do with my website.

Posted at 04:33 PM

Twittvertising.com » Create A .htaccess File Without Referral Spam

[Twittvertising.com] 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 similarly for effective use against referral spam. This attribute is referred to as the rel =”no follow” is being praised by several bloggers because the final answer for the prevailing problem.

Posted at 04:32 PM

February 15, 2010

Defensio Sorts Blocked Comments by "Spaminess"

[TechCrunch] Akismet has well over a million nodes processing more than 400 million checks a month, and our stats indicate more than 20% of that is non-blog content. Usage includes dating sites, the New York Times, News.com, wikis, splog checking, contact forms, bug trackers, and social networking sites.

Posted at 04:03 PM

TechCrunch has 15000 Spam Comments Per Day

[TechCrunch] Interesting to see, that numbers make my 20+ daily spamcomments vanish. I wonder if TechCrunch is also using some sort of plugin such as Bad Behavior that will actually disallow malicious visitors (or actually robots) from even loading the pages of your website.

Posted at 04:02 PM

February 12, 2010

How To Spam Proof Your WordPress Blog

[Internet Marketing Strategies] I would like to introduce you to the completely free WP-Spamfree Anti-Spam plugin for Wordpress! I can honestly say I didn’t initially believe it’s ability to “replace Askimet”, but I was kind of intrigued when I read the description “finally there is an anti-spam plugin for WordPress that provides an effective solution, without CAPTCHA’s, challenge questions, or other inconvenience to site visitors”.

Posted at 04:34 PM

Elie Bursztein » Blog Archive » TrackBack Spam: Abuse and Prevention

[Elie Bursztein] TrackBack Spam: Abuse and Prevention Contemporary blogs receive comments and TrackBacks, which result in cross-references between blogs. We conducted a longitudinal study of TrackBack spam, collecting and analyzing almost 10 million ...

Posted at 04:33 PM

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

Targeting Spam > March 08, 2010

6 Critical WordPress Plugins You Should Have Installed

March 08, 2010

Comment Spam - a Huge Problem for Word Press Blog Owners - BlogSouls

March 05, 2010

Startup Helps MSM Sites Become Search Engine Spammers - Winds of ...

Six Types of Social Spammers | Search Engine Journal

March 01, 2010

Nofollow: Twitter Now Distrusts Everything You Say | SEOptimise

Online Marketing Blog » Blog Archive » Nofollow: Twitter Now ...

February 26, 2010

TMA Forums Giveaway: Win an iPod Touch + iTunes Gift Cards ...

Create A .htaccess File Without Referral Spam

February 22, 2010

Twitter Nofollow - My 7 Day Ultimatum

NOFOLLOW tags in blogs | Learning Blog

February 19, 2010

TOPSITES Referrer Spam getting up my nerves | Share Commons

Twittvertising.com » Create A .htaccess File Without Referral Spam

February 15, 2010

Defensio Sorts Blocked Comments by "Spaminess"

TechCrunch has 15000 Spam Comments Per Day

February 12, 2010

How To Spam Proof Your WordPress Blog

Elie Bursztein » Blog Archive » TrackBack Spam: Abuse and Prevention

February 08, 2010

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

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

February 05, 2010

Preventing Referrer Spam | DALESANDRO.NET

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

February 01, 2010

Spam Comments and Wordpress

Top Ten Spam Fighting Tools in WordPress

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