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Fake Blog Traffic?!? HELP!

by Jeremy Barker
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I have a blog through Wordpress that is hosted through an outside source. Over the past 24 hours I have had around 50 "fake" "spam" comments, whatever you want to call them. Luckily I have to moderate all comments before they are shown but I am wondering why I am getting this?

Any ideas?
#blog #fake #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Most blogs get this. The geniuses who send it think it's going to be approved and get them a backlink. They're spammers.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alan Ashwood
      Not a lot you can do, I've had over 300 in one day. I did change my Wordpress password and it seemed to die down.

      I guess you have the Akismet plugin installed, running interference? It gradually 'learns' what you allow and what you don't, and if you've set up the preferences as tight as possible, it'll let your comments through, but stop the spam.

      Check it a few times. Once you're happy it's working the way you want, simply hit "delete all spam" with confidence.

      Cheers

      Alan

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  • Profile picture of the author brunom
    Probably Scrapebox working there. No easy solution for that.
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    • Profile picture of the author wrongnumber
      the simple solution is:

      1. use a manual captcha... which is not supported by scrapebox, senuke or any other auto posting plugin... by manual captcha i mean it can be as simple as "what is the sum of 7 and 9?" and let the user answer the question before commenting.... will save you all of it... if you are through with php or JS it is very simple to implement...

      2. use moderation, do not allow, users to post comments without moderation... wordpress has even options to moderate comments with a particular number of links...

      3. use a nofollow plugin, which will apply a nofollow to all your comment links... chances are you will get rid of those posters which are looking towards dofollow links...

      4. PM me...

      my blog has posts with over 1k comments but... its like... let them be happy for now!... hahaha...
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      • Profile picture of the author mikeseocool
        Originally Posted by wrongnumber View Post

        the simple solution is:

        1. use a manual captcha... which is not supported by scrapebox, senuke or any other auto posting plugin... by manual captcha i mean it can be as simple as "what is the sum of 7 and 9?" and let the user answer the question before commenting.... will save you all of it... if you are through with php or JS it is very simple to implement...

        2. use moderation, do not allow, users to post comments without moderation... wordpress has even options to moderate comments with a particular number of links...

        3. use a nofollow plugin, which will apply a nofollow to all your comment links... chances are you will get rid of those posters which are looking towards dofollow links...

        4. PM me...

        my blog has posts with over 1k comments but... its like... let them be happy for now!... hahaha...
        Agreed! I have some of my new blogs popping up with some spam comments as well. I don't generally approve all comments and set up about 1 day each week to handpick and approve some related comments or those which are not spammy. It pays if you also have a moderate amount of comments per blog post.
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        • Profile picture of the author Johnny Optimo
          A few of my old blogs that I kind of forgot about (well, they were earning a few hundo a month, but I just stopped logging into WP. Then a year later I log in to see what's up and there's OVER 100,000 spam comments... lol.. (was not running akismet for some reason)

          I ended up just going into the database and deleting every single comment from the blog, unfortunately I deleted hundreds of good comments as well but I'll learn from that.
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  • Profile picture of the author inhwanie
    Basically they're usually bloggers who are using some cheap software that promises them "backlinks" and automatically spams other similar blogs with comments.

    I get these a lot on my sites and I just let them sit as "unapproved" comments and delete them all once in a while.

    I do read the comment notification on my email and sometimes go to their website and check it out to humor myself.
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  • Profile picture of the author Alfredo Carrion
    I don't have this problem (yet) so I haven't tried this free plugin, but it has some good reviews:

    WordPress › SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam « WordPress Plugins

    Let us know if there's a better one.
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