Blog Spam Changes Goals and Tactics

    Probably there is not a single more or less popular blogger who would not encounter spam in the comments.

    The fight against them is quite simple: Wordpress can send comments with certain words to pre-moderation or immediately beat them, as well as comments with more than two links. In addition, even a simple captcha (this is such a picture with clumsy letters, as in my comments) stops most spambots.

    Posting links manually and spam in the "name" field only works with those who do not follow their blogs at all.

    These goblins are sent to the furnace along with their comments with a couple of mouse clicks. The next couple of clicks their URLs are blacklisted.

    Pseudoblogs: they mimic people



    Since spam on “keywords” is very easily detected and destroyed by bloggers, spammers changed their goals and tactics. Fake “blogs” of two kinds began to appear.

    Thematic pseudoblogs. WordPress is put, called, for example, a “diaper blog” or “SEO blog”, clogged with stolen “articles”. Material is stolen from everywhere: from other blogs, from news, from Wikipedia, from magazines.

    Sometimes these articles are subjected to the so-called “rewriting”. The copywriting exchanges are full of wretched people who will process a thousand cents of the text for 50 cents, replacing the words with synonyms, swapping sentences, and sometimes retelling something . Something

    is entered in the "name" fieldsuch as a “diaper blog,” “marketing specialist,” or “SEO notes.”

    Pseudo-human pseudoblogs. Since thematic pseudo-blogs are recognized relatively easily, spammers began to disguise themselves as people. A pseudo-blog, say, “Ivan Zadrischensky,” is set up, and all the same stolen and “reraised” materials fall there. Recently, just three of these compartments.

    The calculation is simple: a blogger will not nail a link to a blog of a living person. And with some it works.

    Why do they need it?



    You ask: “If they don’t enter keywords in the link, then why do they need it?” It's simple. For pseudo-blogs, TIC and PageRank are “pumped”, and then links from them are sold or used for “promotion”.

    What do we do?


    About what we will do with it, I will tell in the following notes. For now, you can read a little about the evolution of spam on the

    Update blogs :
    List of top blogs that commenters have ordered. I advise you to prohibitively ban the nickname BlackEvil, as well as IP 195.160.245.150 - from it I caught repeated attempts to ridicule my blogs.

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