Complete Guide To Eliminating Blog Spam

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My buddy Everton over at Connected Internet has written the most comprehensive guide to eliminating blog spam that I’ve seen. Everton had to beef up his spam protection as he was receiving a server busting 250 spams a minute.

Luckily I’ve been testing the next release of Everton’s theme which incorporates all of the tweaks he’s listed in his guide (which includes one of my tips) which has been fantastic as I’ve only been receiving at most 10 spam messages per day.

The spam defence tips that Everton lists in his guide are:

Send Spam Bots On A Wild Goose Chase

This is probably one of the simplest and quickest ways to reduce comment spam. Most bots work by submitting comments directly to the wp-comments-post.php file. One way to significantly reduce spam is to change the name of the file that sends a new post to your blog, so that spam bots won’t be able to complete their mission.

To learn how to do this click here.

Create Fake Comment Forms To Trick Spam Bots

This is one of the tips I that I featured a few weeks ago. To learn how to do this click here.

Stop Referral Spam

If you haven’t come across referral spam yet, it’s when a site creates a fake referral which appears to come from a certain site. When these ‘referrals’ hit a certain level they can almost bring it down like a denial attack.

To stop referral spam all you have to do is install Angsuman’s Referral Bouncer Plugin. What this plugin does is basically turn the fake referrers away like a bouncer at a club.

Eliminate Trackback Spam

The WP-Hardened-Trackback plugin generates single-use, expiring trackback urls that are only usable for 15 minutes. Whenever a spam bot tries to send an automated trackback without a valid key it’s just ignored and discarded.

More: WP-Hardened-Trackback plugin

To read these tips in full then head on over to Connected Internet

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