As of this writing, along the left-hand side of this blog, I show the recent referrers. Unfortunately I cannot show all the referrers because of some less desirables who continually want to spam this list. If we notice a recurring referrer then we’ll visit the site and if we can’t find a link to makeyougohmm.com, then you can bet we’ll be adding it to the spammer list and that site will never show up in this list. For those who are just starting out their blogs, here’s a list of spam keywords you might want to block out (this isn’t even close to our complete list, BTW, it’s just a few):

pornwizzard, freenudecelebrity, zdenka, sexgine

I’ve seen others who have blogs with referrers showing have these same sites showing up. These sites are just abusing the function for the legitimate referrers. This is a more silent type of spamming then comment spamming, which has gotten a lot of discussion in the blogosphere over the last few months, mainly those who are using the Movable Type program for blogging. I’ve written much more passionately about my feelings on spam on my personal site

Spammers continue to try and ruin the web.

Other bloggers on comment spam:
thoughtsignals: “Starting in late September and then with increasing frequency through November I got a bunch of comment spam, mostly in older posts.”
chrome: “I got sick of all the comment spam a while back, so I turned off the comments.” [tb]
Volokh Conspiracy: Why I don’t enable comments
GameGirl Advance: “But I’m getting pretty tired of willful sniping, personal attacks, and trolling, not to mention the damn spamming.” [tb]
Professor Bainbridge: I’ve gotten a number of emails lately (ranging from the polite to the irate) over my failure to enable TypePad’s comment feature in this blog. [tb]
toomuchsexy.blog: I hate you spammers. Die…. [tb]
poliRANT: Apparently the levels of comment spam have fallen lately, it could be because my google ranking is going down due to lack of any prolific writing here, or it could be because of my installing two different spam blocking plugins.

Did this post make you go hmm?

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