Tag: Comment Spam
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Easy effective control of comment spam
MacManX posted a comment spam strategy on the WordPress Beta discussion site the other day which caught my attention. In the post he said he uses a plugin called WP-HashCash. The main advantage of this plugin is “it requires no maintenance or intervention on my part, and it’s invisible to my readers”. He went on…
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Using .htaccess to minimise comment and referrer spam
I have been using my .htaccess file to stop comment and referrer spam on this site and it has been surprisingly successful (so far!). How do I create a .htaccess file capable of greatly reducing comment and referrer spam? Firstly, I use Awstats to analyse visits to my site daily and I use Spam Karma…
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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
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Comments fixed! – AuthImage 2.0.4 breaks AuthImage addressing.
Well, it serves me right. After crowing about how good AuthImage is to everyone, I forgot to check it after getting my hosting company to “rebuild php with the required modules“. It was still broken on this site, meaning no-one could comment! This time, when I accessed the authimage.php file directly asking for an image…
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Stopping WordPress blog comment spam – the conclusion!
Renaming the wp-comments-post.php file had a drastic effect on the comment spam – it appears very many blog comment spammers go directly to this file to submit their spam. After changing the name of this file, not only did the amount of spam fall off significantly but the number of 404’s for this file ballooned…
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How to stop WordPress Blog Comment Spam
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…
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Log file and Blog comment spam
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…