If you've blogged for any amount of time, you've seen them: comments that strangely have no substance at all. There are words there, yes, but why did someone take the time to type something that really adds no value? It's called comment spam, and the more popular your blog is, the more of it you get. "But wait," I hear the spammers saying. "I actually took the time to write ... Keep reading »
On some of my blogs, trackback spam has now become rampant. Not content to simply spam the comments, spammers are now scraping content from the RSS feed, posting it to spam blogs (splogs), and sending a trackback to the violated site in order to pick up a free link. The problem is that you wouldn't realize it was spam in most cases. On the surface, it looks pretty legit. Why is trackback spam a problem? Well, aside from the ... Keep reading »
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