Category Archives: Trackback Spam

Bad Behaviour blocks TechMeme

Posted on August 28, 2006 by

I noticed recently that none of my posts were appearing on TechMeme so I emailed Gabe Rivera, TechMeme’s founder to ask what the problem was. He responded: Your Bad Behavior plugin is blocking me, even though my crawler behavior is … Continue reading →

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Spamming can seriously affect your health!

Posted on July 26, 2005 by

Via Loic From MozNews.com Russia’s Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax … Continue reading →

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Blocking trackback spam using .htaccess

Posted on April 7, 2005 by

This morning I received a trackback spam. It pointed at a rubbish domain – ohuudfghj.com, and came from ip address 172.164.210.50 using User Agent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90). I took a look at Spamhuntress’ site … Continue reading →

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Trackback spam explained

Posted on February 10, 2005 by

I posted about Trackback Spam previously but it was brought to my attention that I didn’t explain it properly, so I am now going to attempt to rectify that. If you are using a blogging application, like WordPress, there is … Continue reading →

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Combatting WordPress Trackback Spam

Posted on February 1, 2005 by

Having combatted WordPress comment spam I now tackle a new phenomenon, trackback spam Continue reading →

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