trackback spam

April 19th, 2007

I’ve been getting a lot of trackback spam lately. I suppose it could be worse, but it’s only started happening quite recently. I really wasn’t sure what it was at first. I know now that it’s spam. Though it just seems like people are making blogs and filling them with other peoples posts. No advertising penile enlargements, Viagra and general hardcore acts. Just snippets of posts with a link to the post to read the rest.

I found a list of tools for helping to combat this evil. Would anyone recommend any?

Tagged: Annoyances, spam, wordpress | 3 comments »

3 Comments

I installed akismet last week having read around the various recommendations. I don’t get enough in the way of comments to verify that it catches the spam, but it does seem to be the best out there.

Also, a captcha on comments etc would probably get rid of your bots problem.

Posted by CiarÃ¡n on 19 Apr 2007 at 1:05 pm Reply to this comment

Some of them can be quite useful. NorthernIrishBlogs.com and its sister sites, for example, can provide a boost in traffic to your sites. I’d be careful not to block these aggregators too.

Posted by nerd. on 19 Apr 2007 at 11:30 pm Reply to this comment