Category: Trackback Spam
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Bad Behaviour blocks TechMeme
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 rather benign. If you can whitelist my crawler (does BB let you?), it looks like…
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Spamming can seriously affect your health!
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 reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head… Under Russian law, spamming…
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Blocking trackback spam using .htaccess
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 and sure enough she has a post warning that a trackback spam run is about…
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Trackback spam explained
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 a facility called Trackback, whereby, when you are making a post in your blog, and…
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Combatting WordPress Trackback Spam
Having combatted WordPress comment spam I now tackle a new phenomenon, trackback spam