I’ve moved on to other things. These plugins are no longer supported. I’ve updated L’s Linky Love for WP 2.3. Sort of. It turned out the plugin already worked for WP 2.3. However, I did make a two mods at user request: If you’d like the new version, download Linky Love for WP 2.3. Unzip. Place in plugin folder. Deactivate the old version, activate this one. If you notice any problems, let me know so I can fix. A word or caution I’m planning a tool to help us find these things months later, “just in case”, but haven’t thought through the best way to do it yet. Meanwhile, be very vigilant about trackback spam. When in doubt delete. I found a bug in “Hide Sponsored Categories Plugins” for 2.3. It only happens for categories that have apostrophe’s in their name. I have such a category. It’s the one for “L’s Linky Love!” So, I’m currently running the old version. Needless to say, I’ll be fixing that bug!
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Trackback spam can be particularly pesky. I have seen a rash of semi-innocent looking scraper blogs that post snippets of your content. I call these Daegan Spam. If you keep those trackbacks and visit later, you will notice the blogs get redirected to irrelevant thin-affiliate sites for commercial products. This causes you to link into a “bad neighborhood”, which is a bad thing. In the “irony” department
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L’s Linky Love for WP 2.3: Option to follow trackback immediately.
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007Thank You Spam!
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Wow, between Sep 24 1:14 am Sep 25 6:07 am, 13 people all from IP address 60.75.111.14 posted to thank me for “L’s Linky Love!” I feel so overwhelmed with the gratitude pouring from all parts of the globe.
Here we have two blog visitors from France:
forum | [email protected] | forumyum.com | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you
tılsım adası | [email protected] | tilsimadasi-dizi-izle.blogspot.com | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you very good job
A celebrity:
hilary duff | [email protected] | hilaryduff-music. blogspot.com | IP: 160.75.111.14
waooovv good very thanks
A nice note from ‘evden eve nakliyat’, who must think this blog is written by more than one young man:
evden eve nakliyat | [email protected] | evdenevenakliyat-b. blogspot.com | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you boys
Look, ‘evden eve nakliyat ‘ changed his email address (there by ensuring he would never ever get any link juice.)
evden eve nakliyat | [email protected] | evdenevenakliyat-a. blogspot.com | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you very good
‘etkileyici msn nickleri ‘who must be fascinated reading “thank you” over and over:
etkileyici msn nickleri | [email protected] | etkileyici-msn-nickleri.blogspot.com | IP: 160.75.111.14
thnak you i read all comment,this site super
msn nickleri | [email protected] | guzel-msn-nickleri.blogspot.com | IP: 160.75.111.14
thanks nice working
Someone, who like the others, is using a keyboard with no “Caps” key:
forum | [email protected] | komple.org | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you good work
‘evden eve nakliyat’ using yet another email address:
evden eve nakliyat | [email protected] | evdenevenakliyatcim.net | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you yoru work
Does anyone even know where “.gz” is? Do they really want me to visit their site map?
msn nickleri | [email protected] | hayalbahcesi.net/urllist.txt.gz | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you from your writing
conquer online | [email protected] | hayalbahcesi.net/sitemap_1.xml.gz | IP: 160.75.111.14
nice collection
I always love smilies.
knight online | [email protected] | hayalbahcesi.net/sitemap_index.xml.gz | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you good job
Fortunately, this is the last one, but notice they are very very grateful!
tsubasa | [email protected] | hayalbahcesi.net | IP: 160.75.111.14
thank you very very much
Well…. these notes of gratitude are very sweet. But, I think these grateful people need to learn that to get a follow they must match all three of the following at once:
- The “first name” in the name field.
- The full email address and
- The top level domain.
I mean, it’s just a shame that after all that effort with a broken keyboard, they never got a “follow”. Or were these “extremely relevant comments” added these using ‘Blog Comment Poster”? (Yes, such things exist. Yes, I’m making sure I learn their features. No, I don’t think you should buy it.)
Of course, when I saw all 13 matching IP’s I hurled these into Akismet’s spam maw. I’m sure you’ll do the same when ‘evden eve nakliyat’ from IP: 160.75.111.14 visits your site. But he probably won’t visit because by now, I’m sure Akismet has figured out that IP: 160.75.111.14 is a spammer.
Eric & Daniel Spam (with SEO tip at the end!)
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Remember Daniel of “Daniel Spam”? Well, his buddy Eric has joined him. Unlike Daniel who constantly disagrees with me or snidely suggests my posts are incomprehensible, Eric seems to be a bit of a suck up. My theory is they are roommates who live in Atlanta, Georgia. (The IP resolves to Global Net Access, LLC in Atlanta GA.)
Here are messages caught by Akismet:
# Eric | [email protected] | submit-trackback.com | IP: 64.22.110.34
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Design Bloopers: More Content Loads Last : Big Bucks Blogger. Thanks for informative article
# Eric | [email protected] | submit-trackback.com | IP: 64.22.110.34
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title …..
# Daniel | [email protected] | blogging.allask.org | IP: 64.22.110.34
I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding …
# Daniel | [email protected] | blogging.allask.org | IP: 64.22.110.34
I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding lex: …
# Eric | [email protected] | submit-trackback.com | IP: 64.22.110.34
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title ….
Daniel | [email protected] | love.assistsell.net | IP: 65.98.35.234
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Love Update Testing: Please Leave Comments. : …
As usual, I had the option to rescue the “relevant” comments from the spam bin.
Advice to Eric and Dan:
But, I will be watching you two. If you get a new roommate, I’m going to know his name!
SEO Tip
Remember I promised an SEO tip? This is going to be an odd one! I’m going to show you that the a silly post “Daniel Spam” has good on page SEO! (more…)