Comments on: Blogging: Comment Spam Prevention

By: timethief

timethief — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:02:18 +0000

Thanks

By: dochire

dochire — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:32:18 +0000

Great blog..!

By: timethief

timethief — Thu, 12 May 2011 02:24:39 +0000

There is a problem with referrer spam. Yes they are annoying.

Response from staff:

Thanks for reporting this – we are aware of this problem and are working hard to find a solution to fix it.

Some background: what you’re experiencing is called “Referrer Spam”, and it’s an unfortunate side effect of the way statistics tracking works. Spammers take advantage of the referrer logs and visit your blog from phantom URLs that they are actually trying to promote, in the hope that you see them in your logs and click them.

In the meantime, you can rest assured that there is no security risk here, to you or to you blog. It’s just an annoyance, but one we will hopefully be able to get rid of very soon.

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/tons-of-hits-from-spam-domain?replies=29#post-548475
These spam referrers do not in any way affect your blog’s Google page ranking.

1. Do not click the links.
2. Do not post the URL or names of the site into forum threads.
3. Report all spam referrals to Staff directly .
http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact/

By: redjim99

redjim99 — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:44:58 +0000

I have more trouble with fake referals. I let admin know but I don’t know any other way of stopping them. I’ve only been blogging a few months and am still learning how it all fits together, and as I don’t get many visits the fakes are annoying.

Jim

By: timethief

timethief — Wed, 11 May 2011 04:19:21 +0000

15 spam per day is nothing. When one of my blogs was self hosted it got hundreds of spam comments and trackbacks each and every day.

By: Peter Hall

Peter Hall — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:41:48 +0000

Thank you very much for your response; as always sage advice. I generally don’t post my blog address in comments or replies, I have in this one :-) I only get a handful of comments for Akismet to flag, say 15 per day as the site is quite localised so going through them is a breeze. I moderate everything as, sadly, there seems to be a culture in South Africa of abuse by ‘anonymous’.