Trackback Spam Attack

May 23rd, 2006

I have been getting crushed with trackback spam for the past 5 or 6 days. Not as badly here as on the BOTW Blog. On my blog, I have been getting hit with only a dozen or so daily (one of the benefits of having little to no PR). Unfortunately, on the BOTW Blog, we had the options set up to accept trackbacks automatically, without moderation, so the spam cup runneth over. I spent a couple of hours of Saturday cleaning up, then another couple of hours Sunday. After which, I changed the moderation settings. So, while the tarckback spam continues to roll in, at least it is not rendering our blogs useles.

It would appear that I’m not alone in my troubles. Some of the blogs that I frequent seem to be experiencing similar issues:

Jim Boykin’s Spam Problems
Scoble’s Trackback Spam - a bunch of people in the comments report of similar issues

and others…

BOTW Blog search
Google Blog search
Technorati search

2 Responses to “Trackback Spam Attack”

  1. graywolf Says:
    May 23rd, 2006 at 3:35 pm

    I keep telling everybody akismet and bad behavior. I hate “phone home” stuff as much as the next guy, but it catches 99% of the stuff I get, and I get very few false positives.

  2. Kyle Korleski Says:
    September 18th, 2006 at 12:38 am

    Trackbacks have their blessings and their curses.

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