Thanks to the BlacklistStats plug-in (and, of course, Jay Allen’s MT-Blacklist), you can now get a nice little look at the charred insect remains scattered about that virtual bug zapper. Shiny!
(And for those with no idea what I’m talking about, it’s a list of the spamvertisements that folks tried to sneak into the comments on my various blogs. The ones that MT-Blacklist knew about and zapped, that is; ones that slipped through and I had to add to my blacklist (about 6-7 a week) are, of course, not counted.
Jay’s soliciting suggestions for the next version of MT-Blacklist. Drop him a (non-spamming) comment.
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Of course you do realize that publishing a link to the list kinda provides the spammers with what they wanted anyway, right? When Google crawls the link it’ll see all the domains of sites that have been repeatedly denied and may end up boosting their page rank anyway, which is the only real reason these guys spam our comments in the first place. Granted, it’s not quite as effective as a fully qualified link as it’s only the domain, but as far as they’re concerned every little bit helps.
Excellent point, Les. And, yes, D’oh!
How about a <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow”> statement in the header of the file?