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[gHacks technology news] Spammers use that method to get links from sites they would never get links from otherwise. The Wordpress plugin mentioned at The Big Picture is called Related Blog Posts and automates that process.

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[tek] Wordpress: Pingback Spam From Spammers and You! » tek: I just implemented these plugins tonight and I hope they work. I swear these link scraping sites are a pox on the whole Internet.

[WPThemesPlugin.com] 30 Spam Fighting WordPress Plugins | WPThemesPlugin.com: Akismet Spam Count Display (ASCD) allows the WordPress user to easily choose which type of message (graphical or text-based) to display on the sidebar. If the WordPress user chooses a text-based message, they can type in the text that will be displayed, along with some special characters to allow for display of special items.

[Simple Thoughts - Java and Web Blog] Review: Top 9 Wordpress Anti-Spam Plugins: By acting as a gatekeeper, it prevents spammers from delivering their junk, and in many cases, from even reading your site in the first place. This helps your site's load down, makes your site logs cleaner, and also contributes to prevent denial of service conditions caused by spammers.

[Holy Shmoly] More ways to stop spammers and unwanted traffic: I, too have been plagued by spam (100,000 in one day), and tried to use this stuff. However, I put some of this stuff in my htaccess file (assuming that is where it is supposed to go–it never says in the post) and was blocked from my own site.

[Lorelle on WordPress] Comment Spammers Never Stop, Even When Your Blog is Down « Lorelle ...: I find Askimet stops plenty of Spam, but I began to notice repeat offenders and found that I was just going over old ground deleting there new posts, but since I’ve added the Bannage Plugin, I just copy there ip address into the Plugins Options and then delete there comments and since then I’ve not had any repeat offenders.

[SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog] When Comment Spamming Goes Too Far | SEO BlackHat: Black Hat SEO Blog: [...] Looks like SEOBlackhat is having a similar problem with spam bots: “900 comment spams on a single blog from the same person in one day is not black hat SEO, it’s just an attack. What do you think is the appropriate response for something like this?

[Net Frontier Marketing] Net Frontier Marketing » Blog Archive » Trackback Spider: Spammers ...: For example, from the same panel, you can access, for each domain: the hosting, PR or the sites, indexed pages, the rank these pages have on the big three search engines, all the backlinks the pages have, the spider visits, the human visitors… In essence everything you need to know about all your domains, at a glance in one convenient location.

[Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings | Posts] Some blog spam cases you might want to watch for: Sometimes I see requests that are not obvious spam attempts, but are at best unfriendly crawlers (doesn’t respect my robots.txt, sucks down page after page of archives, ignores errors, etc). When these start having a noticeable effect on my server, I’ll manually flag those for firewall blocking.

[Affordable Internet Marketing] Blog Comments, Spammers, Backlinks and NoFollow: During a huge spam wave, I’ve included words like poker and casino, but deleted them after the surge was over, because someone can have a site including these words and still deliver useful comments.

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