Comments on: Preventing TrackBack Spam and Bad Robots http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/preventing_trackback_spam/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:37:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Charlie Summers http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/preventing_trackback_spam/comment-page-1/#comment-112824 Charlie Summers Tue, 13 Feb 2007 22:30:07 +0000 http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2007/02/preventing_trackback_spam/#comment-112824 Blocking trackback spam is simple; use the Trackback Validator plugin from Dan Sandler and Andres Thomas-Stivalet. I turned off Akismet completely, and in the years I've been using Trackback Validator, only ONE trackback came through it into the moderation queue (the spammer had a pseudo-blog that had a legitimate link-back). Dr. Taylor's security-through-obscurity may work for a while, but will be considerably less effective than the way Trackback Validator works...simply checking to see if the page linked actually links back to you. Blocking trackback spam is simple; use the Trackback Validator plugin from Dan Sandler and Andres Thomas-Stivalet. I turned off Akismet completely, and in the years I've been using Trackback Validator, only ONE trackback came through it into the moderation queue (the spammer had a pseudo-blog that had a legitimate link-back).

Dr. Taylor's security-through-obscurity may work for a while, but will be considerably less effective than the way Trackback Validator works...simply checking to see if the page linked actually links back to you.

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