Adding My Web Links and Fighting Spam 2
I’ve added My Web Links to the right column of the blog. I know, My Web is probably the most un-hip social bookmark solution on the planet, but I like the way it integrates in with my my Yahoo search results, and I’m still far too lazy to switch to dei.cio.us. Besides, it works.
I also have observed that the spammers of the world have discovered this site. Joy.
I’m hoping it works a bit like graffitti: if you are aggressive enough in removing it, they decide their efforts are better spent elsewhere (as a public service, people should setup up blogs that do nothing but collect blog spam ;-). I will be setting up Akismet this evening in order to avoid waking up to thirty odd comments that need deleting.
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Yeah, it’s not like graffitti. I got no blog spam for many months, then a trickle which has slowly grown ever since. I currently get 300 or so spams a day, of which 10 or so currently make it through Akismet.
Almost all my spam is on 3 or 4 pages. Those pages don’t have any search engine juice to speak of, so I’m not sure why that’s the case.
I’m observing the same phenomena. I seem to have been picked up by one particular spammer, and the page has no magical search engine ranking behind it. Weird.