Category: Comment Spam

  • Stopping WordPress comment spam continued

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    Tom Raftery
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    Well, the suggestion I tried in my last post has helped matters but not eliminated the spam completely. I have found another suggestion on Weblog Tools – to increase the minimum time between posts. WordPress’ default settings allows a comment to be submitted every 10 seconds – I have increased this to every 300 seconds…

  • How to stop WordPress Blog Comment Spam

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    Tom Raftery
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    I have recently been plagued with Blog Comment spam on this WordPress powered Blog. The Comment spam takes the form of comments on posts containing links to poker/pharmaceutical/whatever sites – the point being that if the comments are published, the sites will gain another external link and rise in search engine rankings. I moderate all…

  • Log file and Blog comment spam

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    Tom Raftery
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    I use AwStats to monitor traffic on the tomandpilar.net site. I monitor the traffic regularly and recently started to notice that my site was apparently being linked to by some very strange sounding sites – Online Poker sites and Online Pharmacies! A quick bit of investigation (and a quick word of explanation from FrankP) told…