Forum Moderators: Robert Charlton & goodroi
I was busy cleaning out the spam when I noticed that someone else is trying to duplicate what was done. this could become a huge problem for all us white hats, any of you guys seen the same thing?
Something like
"Really nice site
list of spam URLs"
i don't have a forum, but i guess the scripts they are running are submitting to any form on the site.
On your forum, do you have one of those random number validaors in there, which the user must enter the number to submit? Theat might cut down on all the automated submissions.Captcha code fixes any indexing form problems or issues with spammers at forms as it requires them validate the number.
I would go that route with most of the live scripts on your site.
I am loathe to use those, because it makes it harder for users to use the system.
It is also quite irritating to continually type in these random numbers/text.
I am working on a system of using the referer url and some kind of random number system to get around the problem.
Until that is fixed, I keep logging and deleting the spam url's and creating spam reports for google etc...
I notice that more and more forms on my site, just to contact the owner of the site, are missused with spam messages.
Something like"Really nice site
list of spam URLs"
I ended up changing my contact page to a php page and then testing for URL's in the comments, if I find one I return the user to the form with a 'html not allowed' message and they have to enter the details again. I also log the IP address of anyone that enters html code on the form.
It's worked so far....
You set up a message board, and over time lots of people register, but the vast majority never post or even visit despite having gone to the trouble of clicking on the link in their confirmation email.
They don't have any links in their user profiles, and they don't post, so I can't see how it's spam, but if it isn't spam why do they go to all the trouble of registering?
They don't have any links in their user profiles, and they don't post, so I can't see how it's spam, but if it isn't spam why do they go to all the trouble of registering?
On the spammy form filling side, I also am receiving lots more of these. It's really annoying.
These idiots do not 'individualize' their attacks to each site; they have all the details set up for standard form fields, and simply add your URL.
So in the form code, instead of name, put aardvark; instead of email, put sandpaper ... and so on.
This has reduced this boring spam by 95%+ on my sites.
BTW the words are optional ;)
And although the random number thngs are a chore for some forms, for one-off registration, most people find them reassuring rather than annoying. Oh, and always insist on a working email address. That alone stops half of them.
They have copied most of my website which is a phpBB-forum and for some keywords they even rank BETTER than I do!
:/
Just ridiculous, I really wonder why Google just don't kick them out!
1) contact form spam
2) forum spam through bogus user registrations and
3) 1-page subdomain spam in the search results?
I see the first two types, too, but they don't appear related to those .info subdomains that the "5-billion page" spammers use.
This thread seems to be discussing three different topics all mixed in together. Is there a connection between the recent increase in:
1) contact form spam
2) forum spam through bogus user registrations and
3) 1-page subdomain spam in the search results?
The thread seems to focus on 1 & 2 - perhaps the title is misleading?
A spammer needs links to his subdomain to make it rank well, so he registers (Using some kind of bot) on many forums all over the world.
Most phpBB forums are set up to show the web address of all registered members on a forum.
In some cases the guy also adds his URL to his signature, and generates one post (Normally completely off topic) and posts a lot of links to inner pages on the subdomain
And then on top of that he might actually steal your content using your RSS feeds, or just by scraping it.
And then do the 5 Million pages thing over and over and over again
I found always in the result list a site
which a complete sensless domain name
composed from letters and numbers and info TLD.
It seems I have discovered so a gigantic spam network.
All the sites are linked together
I have now searched for 5 text fragements from 5 of my domains and each time, I filled a spam report about an other member site of this spam network.
All victims and not victims of June 27th.
Try to take a text framgment from Your site, for example a sentence from the description, and search.
Hunt after each sensless domain name with TLD info.
I was sitting at #3 for a keyword and I was wondering who displaced me to the #4 spot - sure enough it was ole 5 billion. This is just a great example of how just a little know how can outwit an 8,000 employee company.
All registered June 27 2006
All registration info filled with sensless garbage.
Last count is 24 .info domains for my site and still increasing.
Do a search on your domain name with the quote mark
Just with 3 of my sites, which lost more than 80% Google traffic on June 27th
site:a.example.com 28 * spam network
site:b.example.com 12 * spam network
site:n.example.com 43 * spam network
site:v.example.com 42 * spam network
site:w.example.com 20 * spam network
in the first 100 search results
Pages with no problems after June 27
site:p.example.com 12 * spam network
site:r.example.com 9 * spam network
[edited by: jetteroheller at 6:44 pm (utc) on July 7, 2006]
