Strange signups

  • Resolved johnro5243

    (@johnro5243)


    6 years, 8 months ago

    I have been blogging for about three years. A small following (250+), a sleepy site. A month ago, I told my subscribers that I would blog weekly on my process to self publish. In short order, I had 20 more subscribers. Not bad, I thought. Then I began looking at the names: 15 are from sites that are obviously intermediaries of some sort … not real sites. Five are .ru extensions. Two questions: (1) Are others having this issue? (2) Anyone now why spammers would sign up so suddenly and what they intend t do?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • To answer…

    1 – Everyone with a WordPres site/blog has this same issue. Most of my sites see an averge of 30-50 SAM sign up attempts a day like this.

    2 – It’s mostly an attempt for bots to post comment SPAM to get bd-quality backlinks for other sites out there. It’s a very common and well-known thing that the more black-hat SEO’s do. They just keep on sending the bots and SPAM because it really doesn’t cost anything for them to do it, so if one out of every 1,000 attempts gets a result, they make out pretty well with a few million attempts.

    The thing to do is use one of the various anti-SPAM plugins out there. I’ve bene put onto Anitspam Bee by some of the people on the forum, and that has worked well fo me so far.

    Thread Starter johnro5243

    (@johnro5243)

    I suspected as much. Thanks for the explanation of why this happens. I have Askimet, but apparently that doesn’t stop people from signing up. Thanks for the ref to Antispam Bee

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