Thank You Spam!

Wow, 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 “Lucia’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:

1. The “first name” in the name field. (That is if lucia lijegren and lucia of Lucia’s linky love match.
2. The full email address and
3. 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.

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Comments

Eric & Daniel Spam (with SEO tip at the end!)

Remember 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:

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!

Click here to read more.
 

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Comments

Lucia’s Linky Love:
New Features Available.

Lucia’s Linky Love(a dofollow plugin for Wordpress) now has new features!

• New! User can delay dofollow some number of days. Default is zero, and that’s what I plan to use. This was added to fulfill a request.
• New! Problem related to a call to a function that did not exist in PHP 4 is fixed. This is provided to fulfill a request.
• New! You can skip the do follow for a particular name. I use this on my name both to save CPU and to minimize the risk that Google might think I am Google bombing to gain rank on the mega-important word “Lucia”.
• Do follow url in “name” after a specified number comments from a particular visitor: Blogger can specify the number “N” in a range.
• Do follow urls left in comments after a specified number of comments by a visitor.
• No follow “names” with too many characters. Number of characters specified by blogger.
• No follow all comments left more than 14 days after a blogger stops blogging entirely. This prevents your blog from becoming a link farm if you get busy, hit by a car or whatnot. (The superstitious know doing this will actually prevent you from being hit by a car.)

I also made a few invisible changes to further reduce the cpu. These are technical things that have to do with when and how the database is called. Note: This program already calls the database less than 1/4 as often as the original Linky Love.

Future Plans

I am looking into a few other issues to see if there are other ways I can optimize the plugin just in case we discover the plugin is cpu or memory intensive at blogs that contain many, many comments in the database and/or are get lots of comments.

I will be developing an comments review interface that simplifies catch and delete old comment spam that may have slipped through in the past. In particular, I what I have nick-named “Daniel” spam. That is spam that sort of looks innocent the first time you see it, but turns out to contain the same phrase over and over.

For more information, visit

Summary

Download Lucia’s Linky Love. Upload to your plugin directory. Activate. Select your settings. Tell people about it.

Finally, leave me comments and trackbacks and let me know how Lucia’s LinkyLove works for you. And remember: I use this plugin. So, if you leave several comments, you’ll be dofollowed too!