Help – Trackback spam

Posted on August 1, 2010 by 8bitjeff

We are new to the WordPress world. While 99.99% of everything in this new land is awesome, there a a few annoyances. The biggest is the literal flood of Trackback link spam from “viral marketing” and “affiliate workers”. We get dozens of track-back link spam to mostly (99%) complete crap links that have nothing to do with our blog posts. Who has a good way of limiting this spam? Is there a way?

0saves
Save
This entry was posted in 8bitrocket History, Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink.
  • http://www.pxlgames.com Matt Perrin

    Setup the Akimet plugin. It's the best way to deal with spam comments automatically. You'll need to get an API key from them (and probably a Commercial key due to the size of this site) but it works great!

    http://akismet.com/

  • http://twitter.com/flazm Flazm

    Yes, Askimet, most definitely!

  • http://gamedev.michaeljameswilliams.com/ MichaelJW

    I found Akismet still let hundreds of spam comments through on my blog. Ryan from FreelanceFlashGames pointed me towards WP-SpamFree, and that slowed it down to a handful per week. Not sure if it's compatible with Disqus.