Comments on: Bloggers beware–something fishy is going on

By: Darren Draper

Darren Draper — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:05:10 +0000

Cathy,

You’ve discovered the exciting world commonly called the “splogosphere”. Splogs (or spam-blogs) are growing in number.

And, yes, Arthus has probably offered the best advice yet for fixing the problem.

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By: Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:20:57 +0000

Hi Cathy – I know how you are feeling. I am getting these with most posts. Spoken to James (Edublogs) but he has said there is little that we can do. So annoying but no where near as bad as the spamming that is happening on my podcast site.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:19:45 +0000

Cathy – I’ve heard good things about akisemet, but I can’t get it to work on my blog. I’m running Bad Behavior under Spam Karma 2 and it’s really taken care of the problem. Good luck.

By: Arthus Erea

Arthus Erea — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:37:49 +0000

Any popular blogger can tel you this is nothing new. Spammers copy your content to make their site seem legit and request a pingback.

I’ve gotten it on many of my plugin pages, for most of it I simply don’t approve. However, very little gets past Akisemet (which I strongly advise using if you can). I’m not sure if you have many options since you’re hosted on Edublogs. I recommend sending edublogs support a message – they should be blocking this kind of thing.