Marking them as spam or deactivating them may have helped.
I am a bit surprized to see wordpress has not done anything to target spammers. They still find wordpress sites and create blogs like dogs 😀
Main problem comes when someone is trying to recover from all the spam attacks because Google does not remove blogs with 302 or 404 pages / redirects.
We need either 301 or 410 page redirect for non existant blogs. It is critically important to think about Search engines like Google otherwise we all will be left with sites without visitors (Good to be shown around in your friend circle), lol.
hey Andrea, good to see you.
Actually I had a massive database problem. It just got so bloated that I had to re-install WordPress. So the blogs are still existing Google.
– the onus is on you, the blog owner, to block spammers. WP does give you the tools to do that.
– google will catch up in a couple weeks or so.
Yeah, I could not make best use of that cuz I’d been on vacation 😉 for a week. And I thought I will deal with a set of blogs later. Found out many Spam guru websites listed my poor thing(blogging website) as can be used to create spam blogs.
Anyway, do you know how do I redirect using 301 instead of default 302 redirect ?
– Google will not catch up with 302 because it is a temp redirect. So under some of the rules Google follows it does not remove 404 pages and 302 redirects – I read this on matt cuts, I guess. They were saying use 301 redirect and google will catchup within 2 weeks.
Andrea please help me out, I scanned every forum thing out there. But could not find a way to change 302 redirect. I have also scanned all WP php files. But could not achieve this.
Please don’t double post like that.
Andrea’s right, Google WILL catch up. With the content of what those pages are. YES the pages will remain on google forever and ever. BUT. Once the new content is cached, you will no longer experience the negative benefit.
The only way you MIGHT be able to change that 302 redirect (which in THEORY you would WANT in case someone later signs up for that blog legitimately) would be to hack core. I categorically refuse to go further down that line, so lets look at realistic options.
1) .htaccess. http://perishablepress.com/clean-up-links-htaccess/ JUST was posted about a very similar problem. This may be a solution.
2) Add all those 400 names into your banned names filter. This will stop them from being registrable blog names.
3) Next time you go on vacation, turn off sign-ups. If you are the ONLY admin, this is just BOG STANDARD security 101. I do it all the time when I go on my week long benders without internet 🙂
hi, I have figured out following, please let me know if this is the right way to do htaccess redirects ?
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} spam.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
How do I edit this further ? Like can I remove (.*)$ $1 because I want everything to reach page die spam.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} spam.domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule http://domain.com/die-spam/ [R=301,L]
This SHOULD work…
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^spam.domain.com [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^spam2.domain.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/die-spam/ [R=301,L]
You may be able to get rid of the ^(.*)$ but as I know it works WITH it…
thanks everyone 🙂 Rewrite rules worked. Putting names in spam list works as well.
Andrea please help me out,
Also, please remember the mods here (even me) are volunteers. Meaning we do not get paid.
And sometimes we go offline to do things like sleep & spend time with our families, or we may be working on things that pay the bills. 😉
hmm, I thought maybe wordpress would have organised some support structure. But anyway, fair enough it is a great open source though. Even I provide support and step by step instructions when I know something and it can be of help ;). I am exploring Shar db and Hyper db these days, it just sounds great.
