Blog spam

Posted on Wednesday 23 May 2007

Over the past few months I’ve been inundated with blog spam - generally it consists of automated bots posting unrelated comments full of links… most of which my blog software WordPress managed to block, but there were still a truckload of comments I’d manually have to reject… until I discovered a plug-in called Bad Behavior.

This plug-in detects traffic from non-human visitors and then blocks them (whilst still managing to let legit bots through - like search bots). So far I’ve only had the plug-in active since the weekend but already it’s blocked 410 dodgy spam comments.

I’m very impressed… now I just need to figure-out a way of blocking the blog spam I’ve received on my MySpace Blog (and for once I’m not referring to Vicky’s comments)

2 Comments for 'Blog spam'

  1.  
    Vicky
    May 23, 2007 | 3:58 pm
     

    Watch it buster

  2.  
    October 23, 2008 | 8:24 pm
     

    Dont read this if you HATE tons of new MYSPACE friends
    on: http://tinyurl.com/5z7h8m

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