Comments on: WordPress: Pingback Spam From Spammers and You! http://bumped.org/tek/2007/12/31/wordpress-pingback-spam-from-spammers-and-you/ Technology Commentary Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: WBMike http://bumped.org/tek/2007/12/31/wordpress-pingback-spam-from-spammers-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-41604 WBMike Sun, 02 May 2010 21:20:13 +0000 http://bumped.org/tek/2007/12/31/wordpress-pingback-spam-from-spammers-and-you/#comment-41604 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/ 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/

]]> By: Dick http://bumped.org/tek/2007/12/31/wordpress-pingback-spam-from-spammers-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-41555 Dick Sun, 02 May 2010 15:35:32 +0000 http://bumped.org/tek/2007/12/31/wordpress-pingback-spam-from-spammers-and-you/#comment-41555 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? 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?

]]> By: Chris http://bumped.org/tek/2007/12/31/wordpress-pingback-spam-from-spammers-and-you/comment-page-1/#comment-8592 Chris Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:22:02 +0000 http://bumped.org/tek/2007/12/31/wordpress-pingback-spam-from-spammers-and-you/#comment-8592 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. 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.

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