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February 14, 2005

Sorry, No Trackbacks Today

Macromedia weblogs get spammed like you wouldn't believe. Or if you have a high profile weblog yourself, you actually might believe it. We have several mechanisms in place to prevent spamming (while still making the weblogs easy and friendly to use), but it's turning into a ridiculous game of cat and mouse where as soon as we patch an opening, spammers start looking for another. We will be putting some pretty heavy duty protection in place in the coming months, but for now, the game continues.

This morning, one of the biggest spam attacks I've ever seen was launched against our weblog servers. I refer to it as an "attack" because in addition to leaving huge amounts of spam (which is promptly deleted, so it does the spammers and their clients no good whatsoever), it also serves as a denial of service attack which sets off all kinds of alarms. Anyway, this morning's attack was bad. It was a sustained and relentless trackback spam attack, so I finally just ended up denying access to the trackback CGI script at the Apache level which ended it instantly. A few minutes later, all the spam was delete, and it was like it never happened. But there won't be any trackbacks for the rest of the day, and perhaps for the next couple of weeks while I work out a better long-term solution.

A word of advice, not to the spammers out there, but to the people who hire them. At least with Macromedia weblogs, you're wasting your money. Google's ranking algorithms take into account the ranking of the sites which link to the site being ranked which means it makes the most sense to spam weblogs with high rankings. The problem is that the higher a site is ranked, the more likely that site is to have anti-spam measures in place, so even when the spam gets through (which is a miniscule percentage of the spam attempts), at least with Macromedia weblogs, it's promptly deleted. In other words, you're paying for links that only exist for a few minutes at most -- not nearly long enough for them to affect your ranking. So rather than paying for spam, you might consider putting that money into actually creating a decent site that people would actually want to link to.

I'm not naive enough to think I'll actually change anyone's mind with this post, however, so the spam game continues.

Posted by cantrell at February 14, 2005 11:24 AM | References

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See Google's solution to making blog spam irrelevant to their rankings--

http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

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