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08:15 AM - 02/05/2006

The topic: Spam bots

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If you aren’t sure of what a spam bot is, let me try to explain it. 

It’s some piece of software that searches the internet for places to leave a comment.  And this comment is spam.  A human sets the damned thing up and lets the bot do all of the work.  This is the reason this blog has the little thing in place that you have to copy what you see to post a comment.  Bots (robots) can’t see that image.  My working guestbooks have the same thing in place.  I’m notified when I get a new post on one of the guestbooks, which isn’t often.  Except for the bot spam and I did a little research and found a couple of test guestbooks I’d installed, which I never disabled or deleted.  I totally forgot about them, but the spambots found them.  And I got lots of email about a new message having been posted.  I usually just deleted them, but did some investigation yesterday as to why I was still getting so many.

Anyway, my visitor tracking that’s available through my website’s control panel listed out the most recent visitors.  And I’m getting a ton from casino bots in search of a place to post their links.  And as I find the referer link, I’m adding it to a little program that will block that URL from accessing the page that it’s looking for.  And I’m always curious to see if there have been any new (easier) developments for blocking this crap. 

This morning, I Googled “casino spam bots” and found a blog entry on a blog by the name of collision detection.  I read this entry and the comments.  Oh, my gawd, look at all of that spam bot commenting.  And it’s an incredibile PITA for a webmaster to have to take the time to remove it all.

Now, the spammers really don’t expect people to go to those websites.  They don’t.  But what they want is for search engines bots, such as Yahoo, Google, Excite and the like, to see all of those many links. And in seeing so many different websites linking to those pages, well, that puts them higher in the ranking system. 

*sigh*



I hate those bots.  I really hate getting those spam e-mails.  I’d hate them even more if I had to worry about them hitting my website if I had one.  I like the thing you put at the bottom that we have to type in to prevent the bots.  I have to do that sometimes when I send e-mails out, but sometimes the letters and numbers are hard to read.  They’ve got lines through them and such that I’m like is that a “b” or a “6”.  Yours are easy to read.

Posted by Lisa @ Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 9:38:24 AM


I just removed 300 posts from them on one of doris’ old boards *sigh* They were all posted yesterday.

Posted by Tikky @ Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 7:23:29 PM

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