I'm surprised to hear people get trackbacks that AREN'T spam! :) I had to turn trackbacks off on hiphopmusic.com maybe 2 years ago, because spam outpaced real links about 100-1..
-Jay WBAI / illdoctrine.com --- "J. Rhett Aultman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Greentime is supported in (a very, very tiny) > part by Google Ads, we > did not feel right installing Akismet to handle our > spam for us. I've > gotten pretty good at weeding through Greentime's > spam, but I came across > something I haven't seen before. > > It looks like someone's trying to spam via a > trackback. The person or > thing in question seems to have set up a blog that > does nothing but scrape > the subject line and an except of the body from > other blogs, then link to > them. The blog is covered with ads, so I'm guessing > the idea is that > people will approve the trackbacks and then there > will be lots of inbound > links to the ad-laden blog. > > The blog in question is at > http://apartment.wpbloggers.com/ > > Has anyone else seen this sort of thing before? > > -- > Rhett. > http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime > http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
