Cormac Moylan

Hi, my name is Cormac and this is my blog. On the web circa July 2006.

Entries Tagged as 'Spam'

Spam and the nofollow tag in Wordpress

February 2nd, 2007 · 16 Comments

I’m not too sure of the timelines involved but a while back pressure was put on blogging platforms, such as Wordpress, to reduce the amount of link spam deriving from the comments of blogposts.
The remedy was the introduction of the nofollow tag into wordpress’s comments script. As you are more than likely aware, you can [...]

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Tags: Online Advertising & Marketing · SEO · Spam · Wordpress & Blogs

Banning email addresses within VBulletin

January 14th, 2007 · 7 Comments

A few days ago I posted about forum spam attributed to cashette.com. I have since then banned their email domain from signing up to my forum.
Total number of cashette signups this week = 0
A thread on Vbulletin-FAQ details a list and a half of recognised spamming email domains that you should ban immediaetly. Thank you [...]

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Tags: Spam · VBulletin

Cashette.com and forum spam

January 8th, 2007 · 16 Comments

About a month ago I received a bucket load of signups from Cashette email accounts on the blaa.ie forum. I was curious as to who or what cashette was so I looked up their website and I found this little blurb there:
“Cashette provides an innovative solution for the ever-growing spam problem. The Cashette service allows [...]

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Tags: Online Advertising & Marketing · Spam · VBulletin