Comment on Phentermine, Xanax, Viagra and Blackjack spam by SEO Dave.
I own quite a lot of WordPress blogs and this one is no more special than any of the others (still quite new, so not ranking great yet). My other blogs have a small comment spam problem, might get a few in a day, but this blog received almost 4,000 comment spam attempts since it went live in March 2006 (under 6 months) and most of them recently (last three days, 150 items spammed!).
That is ridiculous.
I only realised yesterday when I found some real comments had been blocked as spam, so made a post of my own and that was also blocked as spam (I might have broke something in my recent editing of WordPress). So if you’ve posted something that never showed up, sorry it got lost in the thousands of spam attempts.
I think it might have gone wrong when some spam broke the WordPress database for this blog (causes a MySQL syntax error). I had to replace a file that held all comments with a blank file (from another WordPress blog) and haven’t managed to re include the old comments yet.
Anyway, just upgraded to WordPress 2.0.4 and installed the Bad Behavior plugin which should block some spam attempts before the bots send the spam (blocks access to the site).
I’m assuming here by mentioning Phentermine, Xanax and Blackjack I’ve attracted the spam bots, so I’ll consider this a partial pay back for when I used to comment spam :-(
Hmm, this comment was marked as spam so I’ve messed something up!
