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[ongoing] ongoing · Blog Spam: A minor barrier for a spambot, but my feeling is that asuccession of minor barriers is the best way to fight back. The economics ofspam are such that everything you do to make your target a little morecomplicated and less soft discourages a certain proportion of the badguys.

[Longrider] Longrider » More Blog Spam: Update: it’s worth pointing out that if you Google the phrases Nick is asking for in his links, then the company is already on page one, so spamming blogs and annoying their authors isn’t necessary anyway.

[Jim Boykin's SEO Blog] Blog Spam Part 1 - Stopping Blog Spam. - Jim Boykin's SEO Blog: Last year a very well known SEO gave me the keys to a blogging spam software that was just amazing. You’d type in a keyword phrase, and it’d return hundreds or thousands of related blogs for that phrases, and would put all the comment forms all on one page, you’d fill out and submit and wa-la, you got a bunch of instant links.

[The Truth and Nothing But The Truth] 2 Great Plug-ins to Help Prevent Blog Spamming | The Truth and ...: It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.  In its simplest form, Sabre allows you to include  a “captcha” in the user registration form.  There are other, more complex conditions you can place on user registrants, but usually the simple captcha solution works fine.

[Search Engineering - The Social Media Marketing System] Search Engineering - The Social Media Marketing System: Watching ...: I'm talking about paying lots of Indians (under the pathetic guise of SEO services) to go and make hundreds or thousands of comments on blogs (and other social media websites) that allow you to, all over the world, thus building up authority via the wisdom of crowds that Googles ranking algo relies upon.

[Unoblogger, A blog guide to make money online] What is Comment or Blog Spam? | Unoblogger, A blog guide to make ...: The spammers are in a winning situation what ever the case, the spammers typically use spam bots which involves no physical input from spammers. The spam bots start posting comments on all blogs and websites at a click of a button and even if just a few comments pass through and get published it is a win for spammers.

[Lion's Links] The *Intelligent* Blog Spam: Usually you receive a commentary that at first sight doesn’t have anything suspicious, it may have just a couple of words or “Thanks”, but if you look closer, you will notice that the URL field of the comment author is filled in and the web site doesn’t have anything in common with the topic of your blog post. By doing this they are trying to increase the Google PageRank, so it’s reasonable to add

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