Comments on: 7 Tips For Identifying Trackback Spam & Comment Spam

By: Mike McIntosh

Mike McIntosh — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 06:07:49 +0000

How are trackbacks detected? Does the commenter provide the URL at the time the comment is made? If not, how? Is there a service that searches for links to a blog entry and creates the trackback automatically?

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~ 7 Tips For Identifying Trackback Spam & Comment Spam. | Bakkouz — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:54:30 +0000

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By: Josh Garner

Josh Garner — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:26:29 +0000

Yeah I get a lot of those too. The problem is that if the IP is shared by others, you could end up blocking innocent users. I was confident with my block as it was based in Germany. If you can keep track of the IP for a little while, and determine that they are always the same, then block away. You should be just fine.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:06:22 +0000

I am final glad to find away to to block comment spam. For the past 3 weeks I have been getting a lot of #3 with URLs as in #2. They leave comments like, “cool” or “interesting”. Going forward from today I will be keeping track of there IPs.

By: Josh Garner

Josh Garner — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 18:02:45 +0000

I know this is old, but I finally got fed up and hopefully have a fix for number 6.

http://www.seo-factor.com/2007/11/01/i-hate-spammers

By: Marketing Consultants

Marketing Consultants — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:39:46 +0000

I agree with your views to some extent …but atleast which glitter may be by off chance OFF is a gold….That’s the trend …you can’t disregard it….but yeah must go by the quality of comments that whether they makes any sense w.r.t. your blog or not.. I would just like to add a point to it that say If its myspace, stop being an idiot and accepting friend requests from each one you get, because no they don’t want to be your friends, they are spamming robots, and having 4956 friends doesn’t change the fact you dont’ have any.

By: Thomas McMahon

Thomas McMahon — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:42:55 +0000

That’s a great question Josh. I think #6 is the new technique that doesn’t have a fix yet. If you can identify the scraper though server logs, then you may be able to block them in your robots.txt file. Then again, they could be scraping Technorati or Google Blog Search results and not you directly.

If anyone has any suggestions, please do share.

By: Josh Garner

Josh Garner — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:14:35 +0000

I have been getting a lot of point #6 for the last week now. Any ideas on preventing the scrappers so they don’t get my content in the first place?