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Comment on Simple SEO hacks for WordPress by timestocome

timestocome — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:54:07 +0000

I haven’t had much of a problem with that – I require registration before commenting and block most bots with the bot blocking plugin.

The few people who do get through and post a comment for the link are almost always small non-commercial or mom and pop shops so I let them slide.

I don’t think the spam bots check to see about no-follow tags. I think they just hit everywhere and hope for the best.

Comment on Wordpress plugin to prevent bot registrations by timestocome

timestocome — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:51:49 +0000

But I think you’ll find you want the duplicate ip code in there.

Lots of times I get a couple dozen fake attempts from the same ip but very different email addresses.

Comment on Wordpress plugin to prevent bot registrations by timestocome

timestocome — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:50:33 +0000

You can always remove her ip from the black list.

or if you ‘re comfortable w/ php remove lines 2233-248 from the plugin

// check for multiple registrations from same ip address
if ( $blacklisted == 0 ){
$registration_table = $wpdb->prefix . “ttc_user_registration_log”;
$sql = “SELECT ip FROM $registration_table”;
$already_registered = $wpdb->get_results( $sql );
foreach ( $already_registered as $duplicate_ip ){

$dup_ip = $duplicate_ip->ip;

if ( strcasecmp( $http_remote_addr, $dup_ip ) == 0 ){

$blacklisted = 17;
}
}
}