So i've been working on building up a blog network, and one of our tools lets everyone create their own blogs on the site. my problem is i left the site exposed while building it before i installed captcha at signup, etc. now there are probably thousands of spam posts and several hundred blogs for these spam bloggers. I'm guessing this is doing me some short term good, since they are linking to my stuff, and its generating a buck or 2 per day from adsense, but should i purge these sites and their content once the site is ready to go live? (its topic based, so I don't think spam is particularly relevant to the potential readers) now once i purge the spammer's accounts or delete their accounts. what should i do w/the hundreds of pages of content they posted to their blogs? (site isn't 100% done yet, so i didn't feel like i should put the link here to promote it). any advice is appreciated.
Endless Spam... ...is any of it useful info which could be interesting to people if... If you put the 'best ones' into categories?
maybe 1 percent are relevant to our central topic (apple stuff) for the site. most seem to be for ephedra, ebay auctions, etc. general spammy stuff. but they are building up tons of inbound links to these pages. so what do i do w/that traffic?
Good question. Are they Wordpress? I need to learn more about protecting blogs. ~~~~~~ ~~~~~~ A Grey or Black-hat spammer might Love to buy your project Then you could re-start clean, on a new domain?? Good luck
yes, it is wordpress based. the domain is old, its PR is 4, and it has some history, so i'm not going to sell it just yet.