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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.

thanks everyone ?? Rewrite rules worked. Putting names in spam list works as well.

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 (.*)$ https://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 https://domain.com/die-spam/ [R=301,L]

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.

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.

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.

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.

ok, to make it simple – I don’t mind “non-existing blogs” getting redirected to wp-signup.php but I definitely need to change 302 Temp redirect to 301 Permanent redirect.

I tried changing code in pluggable.php // Line 942 && wp-app.php // Line: 1305.
I changed 302 to 301 in these files but still no success.

I will appreciate if someone could help me out with this.

I think wordpress.com stats is counting bots with unique visits whereas Google analytics is just counting unique visits and does a good job at excluding bots.

Sorry guys, the question was for WPMU, I will try to remove this topic from here..