Spam-Blogs and Trackbacks

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by Dantes, Oct 8, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi,

    I recently noticed that as soon as I publish a new post on my WP Blog, I get some trackbacks from "Spam-Blogs" (blogs that publish a short excerpt from my article and link back to me. Often with is a fake author name or "unknown").

    I believe this is done automaticly with a software that scans for certain topics.

    Questions:

    1) what can I do about it?
    2) does it harm me in any way (at least there is a link back to me, even with a false name)?
    3) is there a plugin that prevents them from doing this?
    4) what are they getting out of this?

    Thx,

    Eddie
     
    Dantes, Oct 8, 2007 IP
  2. 3mice

    3mice Active Member

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  3. sat123

    sat123 Banned

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    you add copyright message and link back to u in your feeds by using post post plugins then any sploggers who automatically uses your rss feeds to write post would get that copyright messages and link appear in post...so u get many backlinks and people know that post is yours
     
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  4. Dantes

    Dantes Peon

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    @ sat123

    Thank you. Can you give me some recommendation for the plugins you are reffering to?
     
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    a sure way to stop it is by deleting the trackbacks.php file.
     
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    is getting trackbacks a problem..?
     
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