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 .

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

/Andreas

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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 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

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)

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.
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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.

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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......

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