You've got Spam!
January 16th, 2007
I’ve been hit with some serious blog spamming for a while now. Both comments and trackback.
After a period of time away from my blog I came back to realise that the bots had taken over my content. I first noticed when I was checking my Google Analytics and found people were coming to my blog to read about some acts i’d never even knew about let alone wrote about!!.
So I cleared up all the Trackbacks (too spammy), turned on Akismet in Typo and cleared down the rest of the comment spam.
Interesting dynamics to the spam content. Some was plain spam, some was just short news articles. Some was psesdo-spam saying “great article, really useful” which could have been a real comment but obviously wasn’t. Some just reposted other peoples comments.
Well Akismet has got rid of some of it but a lot is still coming through. Annoyingly Typo still seems to store the comment if Akismet says it is spam but sets Published to ‘No’. This means I still have to trawl through the Unpublished spam to find the ones to get rid of.
Anyway all this is forcing me to start working on a move to Mephisto. Has anyone else done this move? Any tips. Will Mephisto do better with my spam.
Live in hope ;-)