Spam PreventionFiltering


Spam Prevention/Filtering

Link spam prevention is a real challenge for bloggers. This type of spam collects on old posts like burrs on a dog.

Link spam (also known as blog spam and comment spam) targets blogs by adding links to a blog's comment areas to increase the page ranking for a site in a search engine such as Google. An increased page rank is desirable because that means the spammer's commercial site will be listed before other sites for searches using certain keywords. If a commercial spammer, or more likely a tech team hired by the commercial spammer, achieves a high ranking in a popular search engine, that will increase the number of visitors to a site and may lead to increased sales.

Link spam is an annoyance because bloggers must be vigilant in removing these links from their site because spam links tend to attract even more spam links.

How do you get rid of these Net pests? It's not easy. As soon as a programmer develops an effective solution that blocks commercial spam links, it seems like a new wave of spam, designed to deflect the preventive measures, attacks and gets back into your comments.

Like birth control, the most effective solution is abstinence. Many blogs close their comments sections to avoid the spam. But that's no fun. Blogs were made to facilitate social intercourse.

Popular blog software providers such as Movable Type have developed customized antispam programs designed to ban or blacklist certain IP addresses from posting. Depending on the blog software, some of these filters are sophisticated enough to let you permit comments or ban comments if they match certain content requirements.

Here are some filtering tools that are available free:

Clientblock

http://www.forword.net

Spam-X

http://www.spamx.com/Index.html



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