All Posts Tagged With: "Trackbacks"

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10 PageRank Increasing Myths

I’m sure you’ve all read several ‘build PageRank quick’ guides in the past, however, all is not as it seems.
Why share the secrets if they work for you? Disinformation abound. I try to debunk many of the common myths of pagerank and site building. Take a look.

 10Sep2007 | Kline | 27 comments | Continued
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How Many Feeds Do You Read? Here Are My Top 10 Feeds

Towards the end of last week and over the weekend I didn’t really get a chance to clear out my feeds in Google Reader, due to going out a lot, my router dying and also building a HTPC over the weekend.
Yesterday morning I was faced with hundreds of unread items. Before doing what I [...]

 17Apr2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Guide To Reducing WordPress Trackback Spam And Comment Spam

Over the last 3 months I’ve had to deal with an ever growing spam problem on my WordPress blog. At its worst I was getting over 250 spams a minute, which not only meant I was struggling to process the spam, but my poor old server was struggling under the load. Although Spam [...]

 28Feb2007 | Everton | 10 comments | Continued
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How To Reduce WordPress Trackback Spam

This year I’ve made various changes to my blog to reduce comment spam (read more here and here) but finding an effective way to reduce Trackback Spam had eluded me. Adding SK2 meant that it was rare for any spam to get through, but I was still getting around one hundred Trackback Spams a [...]

 26Feb2007 | Everton | 7 comments | Continued
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Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions

I’ve just received two trackbacks from a Techtities post entitled ‘Why The Digg Mafia Will Cost Kevin Rose Millions‘, (Update: it’s now been submitted to Digg - lets see what happens if it hits the homepage…) on Digg which suggests that not only are the actions of the ‘Digg mafia’ driving away potential digg users, [...]

 17Feb2007 | Everton | 6 comments | Continued
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New Plugin: Latest Comments With Avatar

Update: This plugin has been replaced and improved with the Latest Comments With Avatars Reloaded Plugin.
Despite my site running ultra-slow at the moment, I’ve managed to release my first plugin: Latest Comments With Avatar (LCA). I decided I’d have a go at creating a MyBlogLog plugin, as I’m a big fan of the new MyBlogLog [...]

 31Dec2006 | Everton | 22 comments | Continued
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Help Displaying Trackbacks And Comments Separately

Quick question.  Does anyone know how to display trackbacks and comments left separately on WordPress blogs? 

Ideally I’d like to do this via a plugin.

 13Dec2006 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Help Please With Trackback Spam On WordPress Blog

I’m wasting about an hour a day deleting Trackback Spam which is really annoying.  What’s the best way of stopping it?  I’ve tried installing the Trackback validator, which has helped a bit but hasn’t stopped all the spam.
Also, how do I get the latest trackbacks to display on the Dashboard?  At the moment I’m having [...]

 6Dec2006 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Turning off Trackbacks - Too Much Spam

I feel really bad about this as I used to hate other blogs that didn’t allow trackbacks, but I’m getting tired of deleting a couple hundred trackback spams a day so I’m afraid I’ve just turned off trackbacks.
I might turn them back on to see if blogware have improved their filters.

 21Oct2005 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Engadget using Technorati/Cosmos

After recently removing Trackbacks because of spam, Engadget have just added Technorati/Cosmos to their site.
I don’t reallly see though how this is better than trackbacks for controlling spam? Surely Cosmos can be abused the same way as Trackbacks?
I’ve also found Technorati to not be 100% reliable at picking up links.

 31May2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued