Spammers must be really busy

I just have to tell you this. A few days ago I installed wordpress on one of my sites as a subdomain (not including the word blog or wordpress). Since I didn't finish it then I simply left it as it was (without any links to it) and today the blog spam started :D .

I have no idea how they found the blog, but they must be really busy figuring that stuff out.

/Andreas

Well that's the bad side of pings :)

Same thing happened to me! my new blog got comments out of no where! Haven't attempted to market it anywhere yet...

I think they are using some softwares or scripts  to do the spam, so they will not be busy,  they  only  need a good machine and broadband.

I agree, but how do they find the blogs. This blog was in a directory that wasn't called blog, wordpress or anything related to blogging.

/Andreas

Ye, if when you set it up, you don't shut off the pings until you are ready to launch it your site will probably be found by spammers :/ Best you can do is install something like Akismet, or some other Wordpress spam plugin.

Dont you just hate spammers..... thats why I moderate my blog. At least they cant get their message shown.

SPAM is evil, I hate it like you wouldnt believe! lol

indeed coming from some one who has done nothing but spam this site I find that hard to believe

Just a short update: So far my blog has been active for 95 days and I have never promoted it and still no links to the blog and the spam filter has so far caught over 70 spam posts. That's kind of cool and really annoying. Imagen how many spam posts the really big blogs must get....

/Andreas

Akismet collects around 250 comments a day on the venture skills blog, even my new timnash.co.uk blog recieves 30 or 40 spam and trackback comments :(

hehe Andy 70 is not so much :)

get ~300 spam mails a day and I think the same number via my blogs (most of them are catched by akismet)

since we are on the subject ... I have never tried akismet
but ever since I installed the math comment spam on geoland.org
http://sw-guide.de/wordpress/plugins/math-comment-spam-protection/

I only had one spam come to my email box as notification ...

I guess spammers are lazy ... they prefer the easy targets - non protected blogs that can use their automated spammers on ... then to manually post on blogs with spam protection

most of the spam is send without using the form

I think it's a lot since I just installed wordpress for testing purposes and I never added any links to the blog at all.
/Andreas

Andreas, that doesn't really matter. Once you post something in your blog and your blog software pings indexing sources, it is very easy for spammers to find you.

And I guess that they are more interested in new blogs for spam, as there will be more success for them.

not really when you made the test post your blog pinged all the blogging service, creating hundreds of links ;) so while search engines won't find it blog search engines will, as will technorati etc.

im glad i dont have this problem.

i hate email spam too

Boy these spammers are more active than us. Always one step ahead. You just start the blog with less promotion and they are here. I wish they should be general traffic instead of spam.

I did a quick calculation a month ago and noticed that spammers actually cause about 60% of the web server load for my blogs. That means that real users only cause 40% of the web server load :( and it's them who are making my sites profitable. Imagine if I could be able to earn money from all 100% of the web server load instead......

/Andreas

There is software that is free called comment kahuna that is used specifically for this purpose. 

i have the same problem with my blog... is it the price you have to pay for the blogging-pleasure?  :-[ i wish it was real to have spam-free blogs...

My blog has been hit with a rash of spam lately too. Is there any way to filter spam from a blog??

You can try akismet. It works great for comment spam.

I've noticed that akismet is letting more and more spam thru. I've heard a rumor that they have some problems with their classifier.

Luckily the guys at www.uclassify.com is working on a new plugin that will solve the problem :D

/Andreas

yeah they are really hardworking with their jobs to spamm anywhere there want. if they don't do any spamming in a day. they maybe get a huge of fever.... akismet is powerful to catch them in a akismet lock-up room. they have been caught everyday...

i wouldnt mind havent some kind of software like that to do the blogging for me....lol

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EDIT don't spam this forum

I have mixed feelings about the subject.  Although I use anti-spamming software on the blogs I manage and/or help manage, I do moderate and let those who actually comment on the subject of a particular post pass through.  The way I see it:  If someone actually sat there and put in the time to be contributing to the blog post, I'll let them pass through w/ their trackback.  Put it this way, if a person spends the time to read the blog post, contribute in a way to keep the conversation and interest of the post go, then it will attract "real" posters.  I'll put it in time-terms:

Reading a 3-4 paragraph blog post:  5-10 minutes
Thinking of what to write:  5 minutes
Writing at least one contributing paragraph (at least 4 sentences):  5 minutes

OK, so @ the very least, someone was sitting @ the blog for 15 minutes and actually contributed to the post with something informative.  I'll let him/her pass through.  it's the type of spammer who hops on one of my blogs, writes 3-4 WORDS, then expects me to accept his/her post and their trackback URL?  That would be a no in my book.

It's their job, to be fast

First thing that you should do is to enable Akismet. Make your blog nofollow and enable moderation. You should see a considerable slump.

I guess the spammers are just using search engine indexes to find new blogs.

sure akismet helps for blogs, but you get spammers on all blogs. My blog has nofollow links in comments and akismet is blocking ~100 spam comments every day

I guess they are just bots who are collecting new and established blogs and just auto-submitting comments. They don't really care if you don't approve their comments. Even if 1% webmasters forget to take anti-spam measures, the spammers are in business. It's unfortunate that many countries don't have strict anti-spam laws.

What if i mad my bloga no-follow one, can that help?

Not really. Those penny paid human spammers don't really care about the nofollow. In fact I don't think that they even know what nofollow actually is :)

@sd59,
if you make your forum nofollow, you can protect your SERPs but don't forget a bad link is a bad link.
At the end you need to moderate everything :D

Thats pretty crazy they show up in groups like that. There like Mongolians!

haha i never saw this word before, technorati... nice