Trackback Spam

  • chrrissss

    (@chrrissss)


    10 years ago

    Hi
    Ive started receiving trackback spam, it lists the comment as being on a page that actually has no way of posting a comment it says the comment is blocked by STBV but Im fed up with getting the emails every day, I don’t understand exactly what is going as the link comes from here www.vita.se then leads to here www.vltab.se or comes from here admin.eturizam and still leads to here /www.vltab.se

    is it the nike shoe shop doing the spam or the other sites ! is it possible to stop.

    thanks

    chris

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  • stacyduval

    (@stacyduval)

    Yes go to Settings->Discussion
    Under the first category called “Default article settings”
    uncheck “Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)”

    Then don’t forget to press save!

    Unfortunately this only turns off trackbacks for any new posts. To remove it from already published posts you need to go into each post individually and remove the check from the box.

    If you don’t see the discussion checkboxes on your posts then go to Screen Options at the top of the page and check Discussion to see them.

    Cheers,

    Stacy

    Thread Starter chrrissss

    (@chrrissss)

    Hi thanks for replying to my post, the thing is I already have all those options selected , I can’t understand how it’s happening as the page is not a blog post where there’s anywhere to add a comment and all comments are disabled on my pages anyway, the last time I had this sort of problem was a while ago ( from the same url) it said I had a comment on my slider ! I just don’t get the point of what the spammer is trying to do as you can’t see his comments… What is it all about ! … I’m confused…. Life’s a mystery!

    stacyduval

    (@stacyduval)

    Hi Chrrissss,
    You mean you have all those options unselected?

    Did you go to the individual page to see if the trackbacks and pingbacks discussion box is unchecked as well as the comments box?

    Sometimes an old page (they have discussion options as well) could still have the wrong settings. (Page was created before you changed the global settings.)

    LOL! I know the spammers baffle me too!

    Stacy

    Thread Starter chrrissss

    (@chrrissss)

    Hi

    Yeah I mean unselected I have not got many pages on my site but I’ll have a look at them all, the thing that baffles me is it always says the comment is on this one certain page where you can’t comment

    stacyduval

    (@stacyduval)

    Trackbacks are different than comments. They are used to track outside links to your site.

    They are a whole different checkbox in the settings. Make sure you have the trackbacks checkbox unchecked as well.

    Stacy

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