Spam is like a Hindu deity--it has many faces, many aspects, many avatars. Yet it maintains a core substance. Unlike Hindu deities that have core substances of transcendence, peace, and living for universal truth, the unifying core for spam in all its manifestations is FREE TRAFFIC (to the sender --the receiver bears the cost). Spam email = the grand daddy of them all Spam usenet postings = the grand mommy of them all Spam blogs = splogs Spam pings = spings Spam referrers = dying dying... not yet gone Spam blog comments Now here comes a relatively newer and definitely annoying variation of the whole Spam mantra--Spam Trackbacks. I call these SPAMBACKS. Has a nice salty pork rind ring to it. Anyway, Spammy trackbacks are the bane of blog owners that set their trackbacks to email notify and manual moderation. The spammer would post garbarge on HIS blog about YOUR BLOG entry and you get a notification because of your blog's settings. The key point in this exercise is that you get emailed a link to the "entry" -- you click the entry url to see what the remote article / entry was about. The spammer gets traffic to his site. Outside spurring sales of Glock 9s or cold hard baseball bats to be employed in moments of blind rage, I don't know how effective this marketing tactic would be. There's no targetting. There's no content correlation. There's no content to call to action to target page correlation. There's nothing really.... just raw and annoying VOLUME. Anyone here been hit by spamback marketing?
I didn't knew this spam method propably because I don't own any blog. I guess the solution would be something like the solutions for referer spam (eg. www.thetopsites.net/referer_spam )
Unfortunately my blogs are being hit by this rather annoying method of spam. I actively use Akismet to combat spam, but these trackback ones slip through. If anyone had ideas on combating this garbage... I'm all ears. gasmonso
Any can demonstrate how to do that? If you feel uncomfortable doing it publicly, you can send it in PM Thanks
a fully working method i have applied to my blog is to simply DIS-able trackback and comments I use blog to post content in an efficient way - just like any other CMS - it just appeared easier to use than most CMS and is more effiecient in SEO for my purpose I get backlinks like for any other posts made in static pages from forums and private sites the amount of trackback link spam and comment fields flooded with links to poker and pharm sites simply was far greater than any benefits ever getting from trackback or comments comments can be sent via eMail OR in any of my forums OR in chat - that saves the need for comments there might be OTHER solutions but deny access from IP never solves the problem the .htaccess would grow beyond acceptable limits and spam IP or spam sites change names