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Blog Spam: Trying Something Different

I’ve been getting pounded by trackback and comment spam lately. There are three blogs I write for and none of them seem to be safe. However, a lot of the recent spam starts with or contains <H1> tags. I decided to block <H1> tags at Our Life (the most spammed of the blogs and one of the top 500 blogs on the World Wide Web). We’ll see how that goes and if it works well then I’ll just block all header tags.

I will be keeping an eye on all the blogs very intently over the next few days.

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