I received a trackback from this blog entry(remove the “__” to see the post) to this post on my blog. Strange eh? Then I checked my referer stats and found a hit from a Google search for Google Images Beware trackback to that vi post. Naughty naughty blog owner – you could have at least read my post to see if it was related!
Look what I found today!
3 Comments
Denis de Bernardy (1 comments.) on March 9, 2005 at 11:37 am.
you might want to check if your spam filters are working properly
Donncha (1707 comments.) on March 9, 2005 at 12:10 pm.
Kitten’s Spaminator is working fine, but to defeat trackback spam like this you’d have to check the page doing the trackback for a link to your blog, or use some method to figure out if the remote post was related to your post.
I thought it was just a little bit sneaky doing a Google search for a subject after blogging about it and sending trackbacks to those blogs listed without mentioning them or obviously reading them closely.
Mark J (1 comments.) on March 9, 2005 at 1:58 pm.
Although apparently it is okay to send trackbacks without linking, I think it’s rather cheap. Many sites have policies whereby trackbacks without links are deleted. I might make a filter for Spam Karma 2 that does that.