Question about blog spam
OK, my blog has been going for almost two whole months now. When I started, I decided to moderate all comments, without any spam check, except a blacklist of words that would mean automatic rejection.
At first it was a couple of spams a day, now they are coming at a rate I can't keep up with. So I know I have to implement something, and thank goodness there a ton of ways to do it on WordPress.
My question is different - and just an idle curiousity. I have one post that receives more spam comments than every other post on my blog combined. I can't figure out what it is about that post that is so attractive. It's not the oldest, newest, longest, or any other thing I can seem to figure out...
I've googled every combination of blog, spam, etc that I can think of to see if anyone understands why a particular post would attract spam, but you can imagine the results of that search!!
Anyway, it's a completely off topic question - but this is the only group I know to ask it to...
How do blog spamming programs work? Specifically, how do they decide which posts to comment on? Has anyone else noticed this?
At first it was a couple of spams a day, now they are coming at a rate I can't keep up with. So I know I have to implement something, and thank goodness there a ton of ways to do it on WordPress.
My question is different - and just an idle curiousity. I have one post that receives more spam comments than every other post on my blog combined. I can't figure out what it is about that post that is so attractive. It's not the oldest, newest, longest, or any other thing I can seem to figure out...
I've googled every combination of blog, spam, etc that I can think of to see if anyone understands why a particular post would attract spam, but you can imagine the results of that search!!
Anyway, it's a completely off topic question - but this is the only group I know to ask it to...
How do blog spamming programs work? Specifically, how do they decide which posts to comment on? Has anyone else noticed this?
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Permalink Reply by Rsmith on
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Gosh, I have the same problem, but don't get as much spam as you. If anyone has an answer, I'd love to hear it.
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Permalink Reply by Sylvia Martinez on
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The spam has definately increased lately - I don't know if the spam robots just take time to find you, or what.
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Permalink Reply by Carolyn Foote on
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I just installed Akismet on mine and it works amazingly well.
I've had the same experience with a couple of posts getting "spammed" a lot more than others.
I wondered if it was the two posts I had put "technorati" tags in, because I didn't tag the rest of mine once I noticed that happening?
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I technorati tag everything, so that's not it completely. But it might be a specific tag word..
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Permalink Reply by Teacher K on
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My blog spam seems to come in bursts. I will get 15-20 spam comments and then nothing for a week and a half, and then another set of spam. It does not even seem to be tied to when I post. I will have to start watching to see which posts are getting the most spam.
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Permalink Reply by Alice Mercer on
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Well, the first spams I got were for orchids because I tagged my posts as "orchids" (compliments) or "onions" (things I didn't like). I've had a lot of luck with the askismit plugin on edublogs, and it'll work on wordpress too.
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Askismit works great. I just installed it on mine and it catches almost 100% of the spam.
I also do moderate responses just to be on the safe side.
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