Comments on: Confessions of a Trackback Spammer: Please… Stop Me!

By: Dean Sturgis

Dean Sturgis — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 08:17:29 +0000

Great write up on track backs and IP addresses. I also agree, don’t get caught up in the mysticism of blackhat seo. Google is smarter than ever and all things easy prove fatal in seo.

By: Internet Marketing Week in Review

Internet Marketing Week in Review — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:33:51 +0000

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By: Digital Shock

Digital Shock — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:21:40 +0000

I laugh at the judgemental ones here. Yep getting scraped and click frauded and all that other bad stuff is really bad. But what if there were no blogs like this? Then you would have no idea about all of the tactics out there would you, you silly billys? Just ask yourself who you learnt all the nasty tactics off so that you could protect yourself? Yep, you got it, you learnt it from a Black Hatter.

Learn the tactics and prepare yourself. Don’t take offense. This is the wild west guys and gals, and to survive you have to learn to adapt (and quickly).

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 06:26:54 +0000

I’ll bow to your (much, much) greater knowledge, but I understood that WordPress and most other blog engines automatically assigned “nofollow” codes to links in comments and trackbacks.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Nofollow

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Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:17:07 +0000

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By: Bob Magness

Bob Magness — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 08:23:59 +0000

I have to agree with some of the other commenters. With the tools at our disposal nowadays there really is no need to have to deal with this kind of spam. Akismet is an invaluable tool in my opinion. But it never hurts to have more than one tool up your sleeve.

By: Karen Highland

Karen Highland — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:55:07 +0000

Nice you are not…charming, yes.

By: Is Comment Spam Getting Smarter? - Web Development Blog

Is Comment Spam Getting Smarter? - Web Development Blog — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:55:03 +0000

[...] Beware of trackback spam. Getting links from other blogs and websites is great. But don’t assume that if someone links to you, you should give them a trackback link back. Many spammers take advantage of trackback spam and can cause you to link to all sorts of spammers’ websites. (Copyblogger posted an interesting article: "Confessions of a Trackback Spammer".) [...]

By: TechWiz

TechWiz — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:05:23 +0000

I’ve been developing websites for quite some time, but only recently have I started learning and using WordPress. It’s nice to know there’s a way to stop spammers through the .htaccess file. Thanks for the heads up and hope others take this in too.

By: Mark Madsen

Mark Madsen — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 07:51:30 +0000

I actually like hearing about the new online gaming sites and Viagra deals.

Seriously though, there are several scraper blogs that take my content and attempt the trackback every day. Eventhough they don’t rank higher than I do, I’ve been told conflicting things about how to deal with them or whether or not I should make them stop.

I use Akismet, but I’ll try the IP deny as well. Good stuff in the rest of these comments too. Thanks.