Targeting Spam

A Referrer Spam Anecdote

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:03:23 +0000

[StraightSecTalk] Spam, be it e-mail, referer or another style, typically operates and gains success due to saturation. Instead of some spammer thinking “i’ll target kevin’s blog with this domain”, they target tens of thousands of domains in hopes the admin checks the site out of curiosity, or in case they make their logs available in some fashion.

MSN Live Search Referrer SPAM

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:02:48 +0000

[Peppermint Tea] Visiting the Advanced Preferences in Mint (/mint/?preferences&advanced) allows you to stop recording activity from specified IP ranges, I have added the following to the list (that already includes an IP range that Shaun previously identified as a problem with

Tips for efficient usage of NOFOLLOW link attribute

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:36:07 +0000

[Daily SEO Blog - SEO tips for wordpress and blogger users] Instruct the search engines how they should value a particular link, by either following it or not. Despite the command, search engines behave differently in understanding the Nofollow tag.

A Criticism of NoFollow Links: Why You Should Not Use Them

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:35:01 +0000

[Barry Wise] Unfortunately, the use of nofollow tags has really impeded the original concept behind the open and free exchange of ideas on the Internet. Since so much traffic is dependent on Google today (and one can argue that the Internet as a whole is way too overly dependent on Google) the excessive use of nofollow tags hurts everyone’s chances of ranking well in Google. And by everyone, I mean the majority of website owners which own relatively small sites and blogs. As a result, there is less traffic to all our sites, which means less exchange of ideas.

Anti-Georgia spammers building new botnet

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:03:25 +0000

[dedupe web cs9902- Factiva Alerts] Remember how much everyone loved to hate AOL at the turn of the century? AOL offered bloated software, piles of unwanted installation discs, a walled garden of content, an overloaded newbie network, and a pricey dial-up service.

Trackbacks, and spammers, and DDoS, oh my!

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:03:05 +0000

[Less Talk, More Code] Even after adding in some safeguards to the Trackback method, such as parsing the supposed referencing page and checking for HTML and the presence of the supposed link, it was still possible for spammers to get through. ...

Spammers Hit a Literary Wall

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:33:01 +0000

[Small farm website services for direct marketing farms - Small Farm Central -] It's not really important for you to understand the specifics except that a CAPTCHA makes sure that a human is at the other end on comment submissions, emails from the website, mailing list submissions, and anywhere else that we take input from the user.

I HATE Spammers, but Sometimes They Make Me Laugh

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:31:42 +0000

[Jerod Crump's] Seriously, if I were a spammer, I think I'd at least try to make up a headline that not only sounded like a real headline, but perhaps I could also say something that was within the realm of physical possibility!

HowTo Eliminate Wordpress Trackback Comment And Pingback Spam

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:02:38 +0000

[Rob Malon [dot] Com] Why even let spam bots eat up your processor with extra SQL queries! I’ve come up with a spam defense lineup where 99% of my spam stops bots before they even get logged as spam!

HowTo Eliminate Wordpress Trackback Comment & Pingback Spam

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 16:01:58 +0000

[Digg / Tech Industry News / upcoming] Have you ever gone to your Akismet plug-in in Wordpress and NOT had spam to clear out? Even seeing it there can be depressing and a strain on your servers resources.

Comment Authorization - VaxCave WordPress Trackback Spam Killer

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:32:46 +0000

[Wordpress Plugin Center] VaxCave WordPress Trackback Spam Killer I ve been getting hammered with trackback spam. I have my blacklist setup to weed out anything that comes from our good friends, the texas hold em / online poker folks. ...

SpamViewer - Spamhuntress Trackback spam solutions

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:31:36 +0000

[Wordpress Plugin Center] Welcome to the new version of WP-Plugins.net documentation site. In the process of blog also contains extensive information on how to use and improve the SK2 Spam-Fighting plugin

Remove nofollow in blog links

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:02:43 +0000

[The Staff Lounge] in links to members’ blogs, or do I have to delete that code by hand and, if I do, where do I find it?

Knol's Nofollowing Of Links

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:01:57 +0000

[Google Blogoscoped] In a Knol article, at first glance, you won’t see the nofollow attribute if you look for it in links. There’s also nothing in the robots.txt which would prevent spidering of Knol content, and in fact, filling knowledge gaps in Google results was one of the proclaimed main aims for Google to build Knol.

WordPress SpamAssassin Plugin -

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:32:03 +0000

[Wordpress Plugin Centre] How To Fix WP-Cache And Spam Karma 2 (SK2) Issues ” Connected Internet said, ”¦ SK2-WP-Cache-Compatibility plugin - When you use Spam Karma 2 with WP-Cache, ”¦ WordPress Plugin: WP-Morph 1.0 WP-Morph 1.0 is yet another anti-spam plugin .