Blog Spam
I thought I’d jot down a few notes about blog spam and some observations I have made on my own blogs.
As somebody who passionately hates blog spam, let me say that if you are a blog spammer, then a plague on your house. Using automated posting software to drop standardised comments on other people’s blogs for the sake of getting a backlink is not cool.
But I have also noticed that a lot of my blogs seem to have some type of grace period. I haven’t yet quite figured it out, because some are quite popular and still don’t get any blog spam whereas others barely have any significant traffic and get a ton of the rubbish.
But one thing I have noticed is that certain posts on some of my blogs seem to repeatedly attract spam. I will log into my blog everyday and it is always that particular post. It isn’t spread out accross my whole blog. It’s to the point that I am wondering if individual blog posts make it onto some spammer secrect society list as a great post to spam. I really don’t know why this happens.
Anyway, as you can probably see, I use Spam Karma 2 to keep my blogs relatively free of spam. I am very happy with it.
On my more popular sites I also alter the comment settings so that only people who have had a comment approved by me can actually comment freely and have the comment go live immediately. It’s not a perfect solution, but it keep the rubbish off my blogs.
I have found that Akismet (for WordPress) is absolutely necessary. Blog spam is a drag and there doesn’t seem to be much hope in avoiding it. I guess other captcha style verifiers and double confirms are the way of the future.
All the best,
Jay
May 27th, 2006 at 3:41 amSomeone else below asked this already about antispam scripts.
I am getting nailed with Spam on my website mails and in our blog website - now its offline too
much spam. Is there anyway to stop this? If not, there really isn’t any point in leaving it up
and active. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for help, Keep up the good work. Greetings from Poland
December 12th, 2006 at 3:38 pmI am still using spam karma (see link in post) as of Dec 06 and it’s working very well.
December 13th, 2006 at 7:09 amGuy you need to try out SpamKarma2 from Dave, its really good for spam junk, helped me to get rid of it on my Blogs. tested also Akismet but it didnt worked as good as Spamkarma2.
November 14th, 2007 at 12:03 pmSpam Karma 2 Its good
but i prefer my own scripts
In Internet original it’s very important and powerful
Greetings, CS
November 19th, 2007 at 12:53 pm