Looking at my site stats you'd think I'd be happy: for the past month I've been getting tons of hits, with one day hitting (no pun intended) the record of 6800+ hits. Seems like I'm awfully popular, no?
Well, I am popular--popular with blog spammers, that is. What is blog spam? If you've ever seen vague (or for most of the porn spam, not-so-vague) postings with weird links on my site, that's blog spam. Overkill is their byword: they don't post one or two messages, they post multiple spams to almost all my blog entries. It's boring too: most of the stuff is porn, cialis, poker and mortgage brokers (???). I have a program that rejects designated spam messages, but the problem is, there's virtually new messages every hour. My site literally rejects hundreds of spam messages a day.
So why are spammers doing this? They're doing this to get higher Google rankings: the more times a spam URL shows up across the web, the higher their ranking. I didn't realize the impact of this until I looked at the search terms used to find my site: the top thirty searches are porn-related. I have to admit, this (among other things) has dampened my enthusiasm for blogging.
I'll keep doing this, but I'm not sure for how long; at this point, I spend a great deal of time keeping my Blacklist file up to date.
Cookin' Librarians: Susan Henricks of Dubuque, Iowa is now accepting orders for Dewey or Don’t We? Librarians Cook, a compendium of recipes from librarians across this great land, including my personal, secret recipe for hard-boiled eggs. As Susan tantilizingly states:
In addition to [recipies] being presented in Dewey Decimal order with Library of Congress Subject Headings,there are hundreds of quotes through out the book on what authors and writers have had to say about food and cooking through out history.
Profits from the sale of the book benefit the Iowa Library Association. The cost? A mere $14, plus $5 shipping. Want more to give to friends/family/problem patrons? Two books are $35, including postage, and 3 books, $51. If you want four or more, e-mail Susan at deweycooks@mchsi.com. Otherwise, send your orders to Susan at
3120 Shiras Ave
Dubuque, IA 52001
Checks should be made out to Susan Hendricks. (Please do not do what I do to my husband and write the phrase "blood money" on the memo line.)
Posted by absherl at October 25, 2004 4:08 PM | TrackBackI use MT-Blacklist in combination with CloseComments, and it seems to be an effective combination.
http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/closecomments.php
Posted by: Anna at November 10, 2004 9:54 AM