Is your site getting flooded with PingBack spam? Mine is and it was getting out of control. Most Common PingBack Spam The most common PingBack spam I get are pingbacks which usually contained a quote such as: "Jason wrote an interesting post" "Unknown wrote an interesting post" "Someone wrote an interesting post" etc etc… This is pretty easy to fight automatically. How to Fight PingBack Spam If you use Wordpress then get the Spam Karma plugin which is a useful tool for fighting comment spam. Unfortunately Spam Karma is not very effective at fighting PingBack spam unless you make some little changes… Regex Blacklist Go to your Spam Karma blacklist options and add the following to your blacklist (including the # symbols on either end): #wrote an interesting post# You need to add it to the "regex blacklist" and "regex content blacklist". Now whenever Spam Karma comes across one of those many posts with the phrase "wrote an interesting post" it will treat it as spam. If you come across any other phrases that are common in the PingBack spam then add those too. Click Here for More PingBack Spam Fighting Tips. Feel free to republish this post providing you credit the original post with an SE Friendly link back.
great article, thanks for the post - but I have found that aksimet has done alright for my pingback spam? After checking my filters I have found that I get about 4 or 5 a day that are filtered on autopilot without my intervention!
Hmmm - I've never used aksimet as I'd heard Spam Karma is a lot better. Maybe time for a aksimet vs. Spam Karma post.