How do i stop spammers spamming my blogs with their links.

Hey im totally frustrated by the way im recieving the links in posts on my blogs. They just post their links on my blog to get a backlink on their site. How do i stop this. I dont wanna disallow posting as it may hinder in posting by the non spammer posters. Is their any way i can stop this spaming on my blog.

I m recieving around 15-20 spam posts per day.

 

Depending on which blogging software you are using there are plugins available to prevent "comment spam".

 

For Blogger.com, they have provided the image verification and also you can set that only registered bloggers can comment. But registered bloggers thing does not work, as there are many registered spammers too.

I am also pissed off with those spammers... grrrr!!

 

why not just set your blog to not be able to recieve comments/trackbacks/refferer hits?

 

I set mine so I have to approve comments. The extra work is worth not having lots of porn filth (and other spam) assaulting my blog.

 

I am using Blogger's image verification, but my blogs still get spammed.

Here's what I started doing a couple of weeks ago.

When I get comment spam, it's obviously not a bot because of the image verification. So I use the domain name that the spammer is trying to promote to find out the email address for the owner of the domain. I then send the spammer a message, like this:

===========================================

message subject:

Spamming To My Blogs

message body:

Hello $spammer's_name$:

I would appreciate it if you would stop spamming my blogs. Even if I
didn't delete your comments, your posts would do you no good because
Blogger adds the NOFOLLOW attribute to comment hyperlinks, so search
engines will ignore the links.

I realize that you are just trying your best to rank well but I delete
all spam posts from my blogs. I hope you'll stop now. Thanks!

Sincerely,

$Me$,
$names_of_spammed_blogs$

===========================================

It might seem too polite but to be perfectly honest I am not too offended by spamming. I realize that some folks who are relatively new to the 'Net honestly don't realize that in the long term, comment spamming does no one any good, especially the spammer. Besides, I've made some SEO mistakes in the (distant!) past, and I can understand why a spammer might think that his/her spamming is a good idea. I'm just interested in letting the spammer know that he/she is wasting their time, as all the comment spam on my blogs get deleted right away, and that comment spam will only serve to thwart the spammer's aspirations of ranking well.

AmCy

FYI: the guy who was spamming my credit card blogs stopped his spamming 1 day after I sent the above email.

 

Use Spam Karma if you've got Wordpress

 

I've had similar problems with my blog.. Fixed it like this..

Blogger:

Find code in template:

<a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemCommentCreate$>"<$BlogItemCommentFormOnclick$>><$BlogItemCommentCount$> comments</a>

Code (markup):

Replace it with:

<a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemCommentCreate$>" rel="nofollow" <$BlogItemCommentFormOnclick$>><$BlogItemCommentCount$> comments</a>

Code (markup):

Note: added the rel="nofollow" attribute, see also: http://www.google.com/webmasters/bot.html#noindextags

 

With the change of code only the comment links are with nofollow tag, the other links are just plain links.

Thanks for pointing out the spam.

 

FYI: Blogger adds the attribute automatically for all my Blogger blogs.

AmCy

 

http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?answer=1203

Turn on the word verification. It isn't unbreakable but it helps.

 

Tease...

I fell to the darkside and got my own site and set up wordpress... I will be looking forward to that spam filter.