Comments on: Comment Spam Volcano! http://www.consolationchamps.com/2004/07/02/comment-spam-volcano/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=comment-spam-volcano Top of the B-List Thu, 27 Oct 2011 06:28:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shannon http://www.consolationchamps.com/2004/07/02/comment-spam-volcano/comment-page-1/#comment-924 Shannon Fri, 09 Jul 2004 01:18:42 +0000 http://www.consolationchamps.com/wordpress/?p=977#comment-924 Yeah, I spent some time this week cleaning up Edmond's site from a similar attack. I happened to look at the referrer logs right in the middle of it, and quickly began blocking IP addresses in .htaccess until nothing more was coming through. This one day after I updated his MT-Blacklist file - which did seem to be doing some blocking as well. I finally figured out the reason why I never get comment spam: my robots.txt file blocks all robots, including Google. Since Google doesn't index my site, I don't seem to be a target for comment spammers. Of course the tradeoff is that you'll only find my site if you Google my name or the name of the site itself - or follow a link from someone else. Yeah, I spent some time this week cleaning up Edmond’s site from a similar attack. I happened to look at the referrer logs right in the middle of it, and quickly began blocking IP addresses in .htaccess until nothing more was coming through.

This one day after I updated his MT-Blacklist file – which did seem to be doing some blocking as well.

I finally figured out the reason why I never get comment spam: my robots.txt file blocks all robots, including Google. Since Google doesn’t index my site, I don’t seem to be a target for comment spammers. Of course the tradeoff is that you’ll only find my site if you Google my name or the name of the site itself – or follow a link from someone else.

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