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WordPress: Pingback Spam From Spammers and You!
I don’t really care much about pingbacks and trackbacks but I guess they have their usefullness to the blogging community. Its not just bloggers who use it, but spammers as well. They use this easy oppurtunity to get their site listed because Akismet won’t moderate pingbacks. You’ll need a seperate plugin just to block them completely. I do recommend using two plugins to combat two different types of pingback spam which we’ll go into detail below
Blocking Pingback Spam from Spammers!
The plugin I suggest using is Trackback Validation Plugin. Its pretty good and has been filling in the holes that even Spam Karma left behind. It places all pingbacks on moderation allowing you to not have to wake up each day worrying about how someone found your post interesting but they didn’t agree with parts of it.. ya right.. You can try out the Trackback Validation Plugin.
Examples of Pingback Spam include:
Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts…..
I can not agree with you in 100% regarding some thoughts, but you got good point of view…
May I use some of your content on my website?…
I Googled for something completely different, but found your page…and have to say thanks. nice read….
Man i just love your blog, keep the cool posts comin…..
Blocking Pingback Spam from You!
I am one of the bloggers who insist that pingbacks should only come from external sources, not your own blog. If you want to show related posts, you should instead use the related plugin. This isn’t really the point though, pingback spam from your own blog is irritating only because it automatically adds it self to the comments even when you just wanted to link to a previous entry. Since there is no internal option to disable yourself from sending pingbacks, you can instead use the no self pinback plugin.
So I hope you try those out because quite frankly I’m tired of this whole pingback mess.
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Thanks for the nice read, keep up the interesting posts.
But seriously – I just implemented these plugins tonight and I hope they work. I swear these link scraping sites are a pox on the whole Internet.
Yeah, totally annoying but for the newbies out there what about those pingbacks that start with [ ] brackets followed by your post text that show up in your email. Is this just WordPress letting you know you posted an article with in text links? I usually just delete these using the comment manager. I have seen the WP no self pingback plugin via your link, thank you, noticed there were 570 comments to his plug in text that look the same as the ones I get in my email. Is there a chart anywhere that shows examples of a good pingback vs a spammy one or do you just automatically delete all pingbacks from your comments?
Well the pingback spammers have changed since 2007. Akismet now blocks most of the real spammers by default. There are times that some get through.
The real pingbacks will mention your blog and a little story around it, but not all the time.The bloggers will mention your site to read more information about the subject in your post. It will be relevant to what your post is about.
The spammer pingbacks will continue with the “excellent article” post and may mention the name of your blog. Sometimes they spam in spanish, and make very vague references to what you wrote. The name of the pingback spam author will be very specific to a product like “free nokia cellphones”
Here’s another plugin that disables self pingbacks
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/no-self-ping/
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