Comment Spam Abuse Internet

Spammers are abusing comment systems to increase their rank on Google. Here are some steps to take to reduce or eliminate this problem.

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• Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Referrer Spam

• Jeremy Zawodny's Blog - Guerilla Tactics Against Blog Comment Spammers - Suggestion that bloggers create posts that target the comment spam same internet spammy phrases that blog spammers want Google comment spam to find.
• Kalsey Consulting Group - Comment Spam Manifesto - Weblogger crystallizes the thoughts of many in declaring abuse a cyberwar on those who inappropriately post in abuse guestbooks and weblogs.
• Spam Huntress - Spam cleaning for blogs - Spam huntress dissects blogspam.
• MT-Blacklist/Comment Spam Clearinghouse - A centralized blacklist database of blog spam URLs.
• Webmaster Kit: Stop Spam - Offers a script using the Turing Test, intended internet for spam prevention in guestbooks, blogs and wikis.
• Learning Movable Type: Concerning Spam - Types of spam seen on blogs.
• MSNBC - Spammers now clogging blogs, IM - Spam has never been limited to e-mail. But internet now, commercial abuse pitches are increasingly popping up in internet online chats, instant messages, abuse cell phones with text internet messaging and weblog comments.
• Six Log: Comment Spam - Spammers are abusing comment systems to increase their internet rank on comment spam Google. Here are some steps internet to take to reduce comment spam or eliminate this problem.
• BBC News - How spammers are targeting blogs - Spammers are turning their attention to weblogs, angering abuse technology analyst Bill Thompson. He calls it "flyblogging."
• OJR : Bloggers Declare War on Comment Spam, but Can They Win? - "Here's a look at the battle so far."
• Typepad Vs. Commentspam - The steps that Typepad has taken in order abuse to rid its users of spam comments.
• Akismet - A plugin which identifies and blocks comment and trackback spam on blogs with integration to various blogging systems.
• Big Fractal Tangle: Designing For Lowlifes - Discusses how better, smarter tools are needed to comment spam block abuse or remove comment spam in realtime.
• Jeremy Zawodny's Blog: Using mod_rewrite against comment spam bots - Very short tutorial.
• Simon Willison's Weblog - Solving Comment Spam - Feasible ways to stop or thwart comment spam.
• Wired: When the Spam Hits the Blogs - Owners of weblogs have recently noticed that their referral logs have become the newest target for spam.
• No Guestbook Spam Anymore - Offers instructions for webmasters for avoiding and eliminating internet spam in abuse guestbook.
• Yoz Grahame's Cheerleader: Seven quick tips for a spam-free blog - A list of tips aimed at webloggers to comment spam reduce comment spam the problem of comment spam.
• Blog Spam Database - Database of URLs and phrases often used by spammers, along internet with links to related resources and a discussion forum.
• Internetnews.com - Six Apart Trains Guns on 'Comment Spam' - The blog tools vendor Six Apart plans to internet roll out abuse an open online authentication system internet to fight the growing abuse phenomenon of comment spam.
• Wired - Googlemania: The (Evil) Genius of Comment Spammers - Background of the phenomenon of comment spam and how bloggers responded.
• Simon Willison: Blacklisting Comment Spam - One man\'s efforts to create and maintain a comment spam blacklist.

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