[wp-docs] codex spam

[John O'Nolan]

He is an SEO spammer, and sadly this is how they all operate.
Bolstering links into "trusted" sites is a strategy to increase their  
Google pagerank. Any sort of wiki is a target - and he's easily  
identified by his amateurish spammy source code:

http://cl.ly/36Im

The simplest way to get rid of him would be to automatically add  
rel="nofollow" to all external anchor tags inside the codex. To an SEO  
spammer this eliminates any link value which he's hoping to generate,  
so there's just no point continuing to do it :)

John




On 4 Nov 2010, at 16:42, Lorelle on WordPress wrote:

> I've just tried a gentler approach. I've protected and locked the page
> so that only admins can edit it. This presents a couple of problems
> but I think we can handle them.
>
> 1. Can you forward the information to Jane or Matt about contacting
> this guy (not sure exactly who is the "right" person but they will
> know - if they aren't monitoring the discussion right now) so they can
> let him know that his efforts are not appreciated and need to stop.
> Maybe a bigger hammer will work. And maybe they can block his site or
> IP or something, since this dude is seriously determined.
>
> 2. I'll post something on the translation mailing list about this page
> to have them contact us if they have something to add or fix on the
> page. It is a nuisance, but some of them may have admin status and can
> edit in spite of us, which would be fine. We need to make sure that
> the "leaders" of the translation group have admin access accordingly.
>
> Thanks again for keeping an eye on this. What a pain. Amazing that
> this guy is SO determined to spam, when there isn't a single WordPress
> subject on his site, however, I don't want to give him credit for
> determination. I want him to STOP as it is clearly a time waster for
> all of us, especially you. Thanks so much for staying on top of this!
> You rock!!!
>
> Lorelle
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 12:43 AM, mrmist <listswpdocs at mist.org.uk>  
> wrote:
>> This chap is still at it - linking off to tenuously related sites  
>> from
>> WordPress in your language and adding a "maintained by" link to "www
>> dalefondos com"
>>
>> Is it possible to add that site specifically to the Codex spam  
>> filter?
>>
>> --
>> mrmist
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