Targeting Spam > "Innocent" Trackback Spam Can Knock Your Page Views

[Zoli's Blog :: Main Page] I though I’d share this: recently I’ve seen some seemingly pointless trackback spam that appeared to have come from the main sites of Yahoo, MSN...

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K-Squared Ramblingshttp://www.hyperborea.org/journal [K-Squared Ramblings] This is very good title: Lately I’ve seen an interesting pattern emerge in the comment spam logs here. Along with the usual collections of links to pills, porn, and watches, there are a bunch of trackback spam attempts using innocuous websites like Google and Yahoo and the phrase “this is very good,” over and over. Title? “this is very good” Blog Name? “this is very

David Farrar[David Farrar] Trackback Spam: Kiwiblog Since the introduction of the six digit security code for posting comments, there has been very little comment spam. I still get quite a bit of trackback spams, usually a couple a day, where people ping my site and it creates a trackback to them. I delete those ones and blacklist the URLs the trackbacks go back to, which stops most

http://scrapability.squarespace.com/scrap-rants [Scrapability - Blogs on Scrapbooking and Other Paper Arts - Scrap Rants] ScrapBlog Series : Blogging Definitions: = WeBLOG - a weblog or blog is normally defined as an online diary or journal. This is based on an actual written diary, but online blogs have matured into much more than that - they now accomodate not only the textual diary-like entries, but images, galleries, content management systems, catergorisation, search mechnamisms, can include document and video inserts and be themed with banners, and other blogware.

http://www.makeyougohmm.com [Things That ”¦ Make You Go Hmm] Free directories to submit your podcast: Something interesting I noticed with Yahoo is it picks up on audio and video files linked in blog posts and calls them podcasts. So instead of having three Hmmcasts as of this writing, it shows me as having seven.

[451 CAOS Theory - A blog for the enterprise open source community] Automattic/WordPress funding: It is not disclosing the name, type of funding or the amount, but given Toni Schneider, CEO of Automattic is a partner at early stage VC True Ventures we’d be surprised if it didn’t contribute to the round, but we’re endeavoring to find out the details and will update this posting with them when we have them.

Ysearchblog.com[Ysearchblog.com] Yahoo! Search blog: Discussion on A Defense Against Comment Spam: TrackBack URL for this entry: ... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference 'A Defense Against Comment Spam' from Yahoo! Search blog.

[Sifry.com] Sifry's Alerts: Web Spam Squashing Summit: 2/24/2005: Technorati is coordinating a Web Spam Squashing Summit in Sunnyvale next Thursday, February 24, and I would like to extend an invitation to all tool developers to attend. Many thanks to Yahoo!

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