Blog Spammers Affect Adsense

[Chiara]

I can't believe it... all those stupid texas holdem spam comments in my blogs have actually caused adsense to show nothing but poker related adsense ads. Now my ads are completely irrelevant, even though I deleted the comments a week ago. I have to wait until google comes back and spiders again. Evil blog spammers must be stopped! It's amazing that comments can affect what ads show.

[Old Welsh Guy]

the nofollow should sort this out, as the spiders will not include it.

[Janissary]

yeah Welsh Guy is right, you must use rel="nofollow" code to get rid of those spams!

[roadies]

the nofollow tag only works for outbound links, won't affect the normal text left in comments. The adsense spiders crawl your site looking for content that it could maximize revenue per click with (along with all the other factors, ctr, budget of advertiser, etc). Too bad your blog isn't a poker blog, I hear those poker ads pay out pretty decent.

[Janissary]

but you can disable following all comments, by putting a nofollow code in
<MainOrArchivePage><BlogItemCommentsEnabled>
<a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>#comments"><$BlogItemCommentCount$> comments</a>

[daboss]

why don't you either:
1. set all comments to require moderation first before being published or
2. set comments containing certain words (e.g. poker) to require moderation?

[Chiara]

Yep, I fixed the comment problem last week with a movable type plugin, but the google ads won't go away. Sure, the poker ads pay a lot but they look really spammy on the page.

[Old Welsh Guy]

get some people to click on them then and have some poetic justice :D <I am of course kidding you, DO NOT do it>

[Chiara]

I would never do that of course...
Oh now I also have referral spam out the wazoo... any tips on dealing with that? in AWstats the only referrers i see now are poker sites.

[Old Welsh Guy]

Password protect your log stats.

[Chiara]

Huh? I just read tonight that the only hope is to put a code in my .htaccess page. My log stats are already password protected. What do you mean?

[Ron R]

Moderate the comments.

I understand they spam your site to show up in your statistics. Can someone explain this further? Referrals should be good. I assume they use a bot.

If your stats are not public, how does this help them? If it’s trackbacks you can moderate them the same as comments.

[Chiara]

Yeah, they just spam the statistics in the hopes webmasters will click on the links I guess. Pretty dumb. I have fixed the comment problem, though. There is a plugin for Movable Type that kills them.