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It appears as though someone is trying to create a Google bomb for the spam.com website with the anchor text “LOOK AT THIS LINK”. This is being done by exploiting the trackback feature in Wordpress powered blogs. Since trackbacks are not moderated by default, there is no way to easily prevent spam via a trackback generated by a spambot. That’s where Marco van Hylckama Vlieg’s WP Hardened Trackback plugin comes into play. Hopefully this will be the end of the annoying trackback spam.

For the curious, I’ve included sample “LOOK AT THIS LINK” spam trackbacks after the jump.

Name: Glulia Dovesi | URI: http://spam.com/ | IP: 220.123.231.11

LOOK AT THIS LINK

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Posted Nov 30, 1:09 AM

Name: Ariane Biquin | URI: http://spam.com/ | IP: 220.86.51.87

LOOK AT THIS LINK

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Posted Nov 29, 5:21 PM

Name: Johanna Nordin | URI: http://spam.com/ | IP: 210.109.123.170

LOOK AT THIS LINK

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Posted Nov 26, 8:02 PM

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 30th, 2005 at 12:20 pm and is tagged with blog, plugins, web, wordpress. You can discuss this entry, share pictures, and more in the pixelbomb forums. Responses are currently closed, but you can click here to generate a trackback url for your own site.