theadminzone.com — Are you supporting adult and spam marketing sites without realising it? In order to find every exploitable bit of internet space, spammers are "Silent Spamming" - a form of spamming that is invisible to most human users ? but very visible to the very thing that the spammers are targeting most: search engines. Are they at work on your site?
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en3r0Dec 2, 2005
Very good article, everyone who owns a forum should read this.-en3r0virtenu.com
korbendallasDec 3, 2005
Forum SpammingThe simplest way this happens is for the spammer to register as a member, and simply link to their website from their member profile. The end.I see that here all the time...Am I Right?
4answer2Dec 3, 2005
Boy, those spammers are like Supermen
yourtechsupportDec 3, 2005
Had a problem with that last year on my blog. On my new wordpress installations I muck up the form system and have a better backend control panel to track down any spam attempts.
Closed AccountDec 3, 2005
Those sure were a lot of words to say very little. I'll make it much simpler.If you have a website that allows users to post links, always attach rel="nofollow" to their anchor element.The end.
mrkredoDec 4, 2005
Nothing new in that article. I get 5-7 silent spammers a day on my forum. Often they insert links into their signature and place one useless post saying hello! or something like that. Word press is as bad about comments spam, but there is an option to approve comments manually.<a class="user" href="http://forumnyc.com">http://forumnyc.com</a>
steveo2112Dec 4, 2005
I wasn't aware of profile spam -- just looked at our memberlist and three of the first entries were spammer profiles -- from a year ago! Glad someone dugg this to bring it more attention. I would search the entire memberlist, but there is no way to do that in crappy Invisionboard 1.2. :(
spacemansporkDec 5, 2005
Yeah my web site gets a mere 50-60 unique visitors per day. It hardly shows up on google. It's hardly worth spamming! Yet one (it's obviously the same script) guy decided that my web site would be great for spamming. At first it was like 2-3 a week. Then it was like 1 a day. So I disabled anonymous commenting. I reenabled it and WOOSH! I was getting like 3-4 a day. I had to write a script to check for certain keywords and stop any anonymous posting of those keywords. You try posting a comment about viagra, poker, or whatnot and I reject it. But in this case I put it in another table to see how bad the damage would've been.And within 2.5 months, I've gotten 716 spam comments from ONE spammer. I can't imagine how bad it would be if my site were really popular and had multiple spammers.The robots and no follow techniques are nice, but it doesn't stop people from spamming your site. THEY don't know that you're doing it and frankly it's not any more work for them to just spam your site along with the 100s for other ones they spam.
kdeheadDec 6, 2005
<a class="user" href="http://www.anders.com/cms/75/Crack.Attempt/Spam.Relay">http://www.anders.com/cms/75/Crack.Attempt/Spam.Relay</a>about forms being hijacked as spam relays
Closed AccountJan 23, 2006
Stops all kinds of link spam, including "silent spamming" --- <a class="user" href="http://www.linksleeve.org">http://www.linksleeve.org</a>
hornylionSep 12, 2006
Adult spam is just wrong hornylion doesn't support adult spam, neither through mail or through it's adult porn search engine<a class="user" href="http://www.hornylion.com">http://www.hornylion.com</a>
matthewkeeJun 3, 2009
Gay whales.^_^Never had a problem for <a class="user" href="http://newyorkforum.us">http://newyorkforum.us</a> and <a class="user" href="http://bronxzooforum.com">http://bronxzooforum.com</a> and these have over 600 members each.