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Written by
Joanne Glasspoole
March 22, 2006
Recently my client started using B2Evolution for her blog. She is spending about half an hour to 45 minutes every day deleting bogus comments / links to online pharmacies / porn / ring tones... She is blacklisting offensive referrer links, but, of course, she is overwhelmed by the sheer numbers.
Does anyone know how to combat SPAM blog? Is there a module we should add to B2Evolution to help eliminate this problem? Does any know what google.com/url164 is?
Joanne Glasspoole
Glasspoole Web Development
Written by Linda Buquet March 23, 2006
I was being interviewed for an article by the editor of Revenue
Magazine the other day. They use B2 on their blog as well and she said
she she was spending HOURS some days deleting all the spam. So your
client is lucky! B2 just happens to be a huge spam magnet and is incredibly short
on protection. Since I do lots of blogging, own a blog directory and
also have an RSS marketing forum I see it all the time.
I think B2 has a forum so you may check with some people over there,
but last I heard they had very weak spam protection if any. I use
WordPress on my blogs and one of the important reasons is the wide
variety of anti-spam and other plug-ins that are available. My blog is
#1 in all the search engines, so it's highly visible. My anti-spam
programs catch everything except for a rare one that gets through. Then
the software warns me by email and asks me if I want to delete it.
I would recommend your client start a new WordPress blog and let the other one die.
Linda Buquet, Blogger and Affiliate Management Consultant
5staraffiliateprograms.com
March 23, 2006
Hi Joanne,
I had the same problem with B2Evo... daily removal of obnoxious
comments was necessary. I finally changed to WordPress and my problem
is solved. Spam comments are caught by the Akismet module before they
are posted. I can look through them at my convenience to verify before
I delete. I was able to move all posts from B2Evo to WordPress.
Best regards,
Dan Eskelson
Clearwater Landscapes, Inc.
Written by Joseph Taylor March 23, 2006
Hi Joanne,
We had the same problem and recently updated our blog software. We now
use Movable Type version 3.2 which handles comment and trackback spam,
internally. Meaning, spam never makes it to the blog itself by setting
up a "holding pen" for comments / trackbacks. It sorts most spam out
automatically and you can "teach" it that certain posts are spam.
It works really well and I am no longer tearing my hair out fixing spam problems. Also, it seems as though most spammers have stopped trying to spam us because of the newer version of Movable Type. I have no personal involvement with Movable Type or any other blog software company, I am a LED long time subscriber and hate spam.
Very Truly Yours,
Joseph Taylor
WaterandWastewater.com
Written by Dejan Bizinger March 23, 2006
I have been using for some time b2 Evolution. It is quite a nice
software, but now I'm using also open source NucleusCMS. You should
install a CAPTCHA module for preventing comment spam on your blog. Here
is an article about Captcha for b2evolution. Another solution for preventing comment spam is to require that a visitor has to be log-in in order to post comments.
HTH. Best regards,
Dejan Bizinger
bizinger.biz
Written by Steven Rothberg March 24, 2006 "Recently my client started using B2Evolution for her blog. She is spending about half an hour to 45 minutes every day deleting bogus comments / links..." - Joanne Glasspoole
We purchased software from Movable Type for our blogs. We had dozens of
trackbacks posted the first day that we launched our first blog. Great
news, right? Wrong. They were all from porn and on-line gambling sites
and had absolutely nothing to do with our entries. Within hours we had
deleted the trackbacks and then permanently turned that feature off.
Trackbacks remind me of some reciprocal linking pages that existed
in the mid-1990's. You could go to another site, enter your site
information, and that site would then link to you. These existed on
"real" sites, not just FFA (Free For All) linking farms. These linking
disappeared pretty quickly when the porn and other such sites polluted
them. For the life of me, I cannot understand how an owner of a web
site would want to allow unknown third parties to create links from the
owner's web site to the third party's web site unless the owner of the
web site has prior knowledge of the link and consents to it. Otherwise,
you're turning over the keys to your site to third parties whose
motives are often going to be less than pure.
Steven Rothberg
CollegeRecruiter.com career site
Written by James Miller March 24, 2006
I've never had spam on my blog. Perhaps no-one reads it, but it's more
likely because I don't allow comments. When someone want to make a
comment, they just e-mail me. That method may not be acceptable to
your client.
One solution that I can think of is to put the blog on your own
web site. I do that and it's easy with Blogger. I could then write a
program to delete the comments from the idiots and then blacklist
them. It's just a question of knowing the format and working out a
simple strategy.
James Miller
Daisy Analysis
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