Trip Like I Do

Spam again

October 9th, 2006

After reading through some of the support forums at Wordpress, I think I have figured out where most of my comment Spam is coming from.  I am now clearing out over 20 spam comments a day - except for today - I had 72!  Jeebus.  It seems that what spammers do now is something called trackback spam.  So, they spambot doesn’t actually leave a comment, but does a trackback to whatever post from a webpage. 

The only good thing about it is that the more trackbacks you have, the higher your search ranking becomes.  Not that my search ranking would be low anyway, I mean come one, if you are searching for me, this is pretty much the only page that should come up. 

How do you defeat these spammers?  Well, to do that requires that you turn your trackbacks or pings off.  Wordpress users - this can be done in your control panel under ”manage” I believe, I’d have to double check, but to really make sure it is turned off - when you are writing a post - in your sidebar there should be something called “discussion” and you would need to make sure that “allow pings” is unchecked.  I used to have the ”allow pings” turned on, but now that I turned it off, I have the arduous task of manually editing all of my other posts to turn it off.  Ach. 

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