Beware Trackback Spam
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 »