I rarely go into my spam folder, but I did today and discovered that the keywords ‘New’ and ‘Improved’ [in the title of a post] can attract some interesting spam.
The post in question was my rant about Arnotts BBQ Shapes biscuits which are marketed as ‘new and improved’…and are anything but. I stand by my comments about the biscuits, but I may to think twice about my titles in the future. Then again, just including viagra in the title of this post may bring even more spammers to my door. I’ll keep you posted.
This is a screenshot of one of the viagra ones:
The kinky porn ones I’ll leave to your imagination, other than to say they seem to be attracted to the word ‘sexy’ in my post ‘Villains – what is it that makes them so sexy?‘.
On a brighter note, I’m immensely relieved that only 11 of my comments are from spammers. That’s not bad over four years and almost 12,000 comments. 😀
cheers
Meeks
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August 18th, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Only 11 spammers? I have to wade through the muck of spam to find the treasure of a genuine response. I think you should tempt fate with an even more inviting title. What could that be?
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:25 am
lmao – don’t tempt me! Besides, if the spammers haven’t found me, there’s a good chance the rest of the world hasn’t either. Count yourself lucky. 😀
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August 18th, 2016 at 8:23 pm
What the? You’ve only ever had 11 spam comments? I have a low traffic site and yet in little over two years I’ve had 159,993 (just checked).
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:27 am
WHAT????? How is that possible? That’s like the total number of views I’ve had over the last 4 years. Either you’re doing something wrong…or I am?
I’m seriously baffled, Hariod. I admit, most of my traffic comes from people wanting my how-to posts but still…:(
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:56 am
I know, the discrepancy seems quite ludicrous – you 11, and me 159,993! The thing is, I’ve only ever written 33 posts, so I’m averaging 4,848 spam comments per post. Hahahahaha.
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August 19th, 2016 at 3:44 pm
lmao – that is insane! Do they all come via search engines?
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August 19th, 2016 at 3:46 pm
Oh I know! I know! You have your own website. That’s why. Same with Candy. Most of my spam must be getting trapped by WordPress before it gets anywhere near me.
Do you have some kind of spam filter set up?
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August 19th, 2016 at 6:59 pm
Oh, is that right Meeks? Why does it make any difference; doesn’t Akismet work in the same way for me as it does for you? That’s the only spam filter I have, and it’s caught all those 160k bar, I think, a handful. I never look at the spam to see what it is or where it comes from, I just delete the entire lot every day or two.
But wait a minute, you say ‘most of my spam’, suggesting we’re talking about two different things. ‘Most’ sounds like more than 11. The figure I gave of 160k is the total number of spam comments Akismet have trapped, and as identified in my site stats.
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August 19th, 2016 at 8:39 pm
Sorry, poor phrasing on my part. I suspect the WordPress engine itself handles all the spam so I don’t even know how much there is…apart from those 11 that got through. If Akismet is working for you then everything’s fine. I was imagining you being deluged by all that spam on a daily basis and having to deal with it manually. 🙂
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August 19th, 2016 at 8:43 pm
So those stats of mine are not so surprising?
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August 19th, 2016 at 8:45 pm
Well, they are to me as I don’t see the behind-the-scenes stuff at WordPress. Might pay to ask around though. Maybe some others will have a better idea of numbers.
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August 19th, 2016 at 8:51 pm
The Akismet stats are in your dashboard, yes?
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:13 pm
-blush- Yes, but…I’ve never looked.
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:19 pm
Just looked. Couldnt find the Akismet stats per se but I found the setting and its – ‘ Strict: silently discard the worst and most pervasive spam.’
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:26 pm
In the old-style ‘WP Admin’ page, it’s the 6th. item down on the Dashboard, labelled ‘Akismet stats’.
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:30 pm
Ah hah! 70,000 all up, that’s over almost 4 1/2 years. Hmm…that’s still odd isn’t it?
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:49 pm
Well, it sounds a bit more bloody reasonable than my 4,848 per. post. Hahahahaha What’s your average when you divide it up?
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August 19th, 2016 at 11:05 pm
About 82 i.e.
70,000/850 [approx.]
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August 19th, 2016 at 11:06 pm
night night 🙂
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August 18th, 2016 at 5:26 pm
Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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August 18th, 2016 at 6:27 pm
Danke!
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August 18th, 2016 at 7:39 pm
hi, nice! 😉 Let me thank you for your interesting thoughts. Greetings mwz
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August 19th, 2016 at 10:28 am
😀
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August 18th, 2016 at 1:09 pm
I wonder how many of your posts have gone straight to someones spam folder because of the titles.
xxx Huge Hugs xxx
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August 18th, 2016 at 6:27 pm
Oh great…thanks, David. 😦 I was trying to stay up beat…
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August 18th, 2016 at 9:35 am
HA! Wasn’t me!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😛
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August 18th, 2016 at 9:44 am
-giggles- Are you sure? -runs-
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