New Type comment spam
I love the the fact that Blog spam just won’t die .. hehe, To be honest Akismet stopped most comment spammers ages ago, a lot more that NO follow ever did btw.
But the new style of scrape a comment then trackback that comment, seems to be on the rise and Akisment seems to be not catching those, these can cause to effects one dupe content and secondly bad neighbourhoods, now I removed the NoFollow tag so that the readers here that made comments got the benefit of a clean link, That’s the way communities should be ! If the New comment spam keeps getting though I might NoFollow Trackbacks until I can build a white list.
DaveN
John Squires 2024 days ago
http://looks-cool.co.ukEh? What exactly do you mean by “scrape a comment then trackback that comment”? I don’t get it, sorry.
John
DaveN 2024 days ago
so John what would happen is a spider comes to http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk scrapes
“Eh? What exactly do you mean by “scape a comment then trackback that comment”? I don’t get it, sorry.
John”
then posts on spam .INFO blog
I was surfing the web and found this interesting comment on davidnaylor.co.uk :
Eh? What exactly do you mean by “scape a comment then trackback that comment”? I don’t get it, sorry.
John
then trackbacks http://www.davidnaylor.co.uk/new-type-comment-spam.html
Thomas 2024 days ago
I guess the other commenter – like me – was a bit confused by the typo: s/scapes/scrapes and everything is fine.
Interesting insight, btw.
Have you noticed the other kind of spam where the spambots seem to put a hash in a comment/trackback to identify vulnerable blogs? Maybe this is an old one, though. I just discovered it in my blog.
DaveN 2024 days ago
Yer John seeing Findory feeds appearing on WP blogs..
Example :
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22So+you+have+decided+to+facilitate+content+creation%22&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&hs=BVM&filter=0
Chris 2024 days ago
http://www.cheaplaptopparts.co.ukThe thing is Dave, it still works really really well. Google have banned recip linking and link buying so apart from “link bait” its really the only thing left!
One of my competitors for one of my sites is out ranking me on a very competitive phrase with almost 100% comment spam…and the best thing is ive reported him about 10 times with no effect! Thanks Google!
New style scraper comment spam | Kocchi Kade 2024 days ago
[...] David Naylor posted about a spam blog, which scrapes your content then blogs about you with a duplicated section of your post. I first noticed this when I had a ping back within five minutes of a post – quicker than Google blog search or Technorati. [...]
Mark 2024 days ago
@Chris
Link laundering (providing tools/widgets/stuff that auto links back) still works a treat.. You get a great mix of links – relevance is obviously off, but seems to work well with good incoming link rate and a few PR6-7 doobars.
Seocracy 2024 days ago
http://www.seocracy.comTrackback spamming has always been the underrated, oft neglected cousin of comment spamming. It works about ten times better, tends to stick much much longer then typical comment spam, and it is incredibly easy to automate.
If you think you’re seeing it start to become popular now, you’re just seeing the tip of the iceberg. There are some awesomely effective and powerful trackback spamming scripts that have recently been released into the wild….
My solution? I simply don’t allow trackbacks on my blog. Two reasons: One) I coded that bastard by hand and was too lazy to build in xmlrpc support, and Two) I figure the only reason to have trackbacks would be so that Id know when people are bad mouthing me, and well, I have technorati for that.
Richard Hearne 2024 days ago
http://www.redcardinal.ieYep – seem to generally be using the spammers domain of choice – cheap and nasty .info
Igor The Troll 2023 days ago
DaveN, check out how the black hats using Google Groups for track back Spam.
http://www.travelinasia.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5579
Jan 2021 days ago
http://www.thrusites.comFirstly you can disable trackbacks
. Secondly, you can update your WordPress in order to be secured from such spam. Such prevention can be based on target URLs (usually ending with .cn or .info), or words.
About a week ago I got tired of spam on my WP-MU. Naturally, I deleted every spam blog in just hours, but it was tedious. So I installed a CAPTCHA plug-in in order to stay away from spam
. It works perfectly. As days went by my blogs became a target of (nearly) comment spammers. These are real people posting comments which contain 1-2 sentences and aren’t caught by Askimet. OK, so I upgraded my WP engine and added a simple restriction to links. Now, a link is published if only it’s not spam. Actually, I can control every link and I can determine which one is published and which one won’t be published ever.
I personally think that man needs a different solution for almost every blog. But it is worth it at all.
Forrest 2016 days ago
http://blog.forrestcroce.com/I’ve been getting a lot of this stuff lately; every time I check my blog there are two or three more. I always check the site, and if it’s just my RSS feed I report it as spam to akismet.
Fortunately most of the sites that have been scraping my Really Simple Splogging feed ;-( don’t get indexed, so I’m not competing against my own content. I’ve been linking back to earlier posts early in new posts since I’ve been seeing this, but a few really nasty ones will nofollow your links in your content.
Do you think blocking these by IP would help? I’m always nervous about that with dynamically generated addresses…