Blog Spam gets worse

[Real Estate Forum]

this is an example for hard core blog spam
http://my.opera.com/SiteTutor/journal/1#usercomments
That is why we set up http://spambank.blogspot.com

[Phoenix Realtor]

Wow!

It's a damn site map. LOL

[Real Estate Forum]

Yeh no ****. I keep it on there because I don't use the blog. Even if it helps them, maybe some day I can throw it into their faces and sue them or something.

[Phoenix Realtor]

Bastages!

What is wrong with people.

[erogers]

I get all kinds of spam on a daily basis for my blog. Never mind that comments get the nofollow attrib on my blog. Never mind that I've always deleted those comments as spam and never allowed one of them through. Yet they keep comming. You'd think after a while they would get tired of trying.

[Alpharetta]

What gets me is that someone out there must be making money from these things or you would think that they would stop.

[stock_post]

I used to have this issue for my Real Estate Discussion site

www.DiscussRE.com (http://www.discussre.com/)

After I turned on that only resisted users can post a comment, I am not getting anymore spam. (Hope they are not going in without me noticing them.)

[Nickie]

I get junk like that all day long. I have my blog set to where I have to approve comments too, but it has no effect, they just keep on coming.

When you find the magic cure, please let me know!

[spanishproperty]

Wishful thinking,

I think it is getting worse and worse, the other night the server processed some 400,000 spam e-mails being sent through one of our contact forms.

We have managed to track down a couple and now we have redone our email a property form to stop these people from using our site.

Most of this comes from advertising programs, like you might see in google adwords "6 million e-mails for 49,95 dollars".

If you think you sent out 6 million emails advertising enlargers etc - you would hope to make a couple of sales - but google, yahoo etc should stop these companies from doing this because it is a pain in the a**e every morning deleting hundreds of spam emails.

[chrishummel]

Does anyone have solutions to limit blogspam?

[Nickie]

Well, we just activated the Akismet plugin on my WP blog - it's fabulous. I am still getting the real comments, but all the spam is neatly placed into a nice folder to be deleted at my leisure.

[mortgagesum]

Akismet is good. I think there's another one called spamKarma that works well too.

[waynelong]

All I here are good things about Askimet. The spam thing messes everything up for legitimate marketers. Thanks. Wayne

[Alpharetta]

For WP blogs, you can go to your sire admin and click:

"options" then
"dicussion" then
scroll all the way down to the bottom and there is a box to blacklist any word that you place in the box. WP has a list of common spam words that you can copy and paste into the box and it cuts it down tremendously. I have added more words to it and I no longer receive any spam at all. The only problem with using this is that if you blacklist a word that a real person might use, there comment will not come through. So you should be careful. If you want my list of words, PM me. I cannot post it in public.:p The forum could start to rank for these terms and I'm sure you don't want that.

[BigP]

On wordpress, Akismet and SpamKarma plug-ins work great together!

[seosusan]

That is unbelievably pathetic. I have always been blown away how these people continue to do stuff like that.

[Real_Estate_Agent]

Blog spam is a huge deal and I don't like it.

Websites look very ugly when there is so much blog spam.

How can we prevent blog spam?

[billnad]

I have used a few ways to get rid of blog spam but the best way so far has been to use an askimet plugin in both my Movable type and Wordpress blogs. Try it out I think you will be happy with the lack of spam you will start not receiving :)

I have also tried turning off trackback as well as comments on some blogs, that does seem to help

[Asida]

You really have so many spam posts? OK, maybe I haven't seen enough Blogs, or they just had the comments turned off, but somehow I haven't experienced so much spam in blogs.

[billnad]

Actually it is not the spam on the posts but people try to spam your blog and Askimet will help you so that you do not have to go through so many spam comments just to approve comments that should be on your blog.

You will see blogs that automatically have comments approved and they will sometimes have 100s of viagra spam in the comments on every blog post.

[Asida]

Actually the software is called Akismet not Askimet, as you both spelled incorrectly, I found it anyway.
I would post the link, but unfortunately I need 7 more posts :D

[DarinU]

Jeez I can't believe they think that will actually help them. The crawlers (google at least) will probably eventually catch on and not count the link or penalize them for that.

[billnad]

Well thanks for the correction, I did not realize the spelling and have always called it askimet.

Anyway I used to use a plugin for Movable Type to get rid of spam and it worked well, I am now using Wordpress a lot and Akismet gets rid of all of the spam, well over 95% anyway. so I am satisfied with that.

It is true that if Google did a better job at filtering out the spam as backlinks then we would hopefully see an end to spam but at this point I am just going to accept that the occasional spam that gets through will be deleted by me.

On a slightly different tack I have found that less people comment then a couple of years ago and part of that is because there is not enough of a reason to comment and get no backlink from it so most people don't. I have added a "do follow" plugin on one of my blogs and let all the reader know with a couple of posts so I am interested in seeing how well this will work. The idea is that all approved comments (I approve all comments before they go live) do not have the default no follow tag, there are people actively searching for this so I will come back with my results.

[rainier]

it is important to read as many times our contents, it's good you are open for correction...keep it up!