How to deal with automatic spam pinging
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For more than 2 months, I was very happy for my ranking on many search engines. That’s because, imho, I made some good and original contents, and built with original video and infographics. And for sure, I strictly avoided spam links to my posts, and only gathered links from high domain autorities and high page authorities.
So I consider, based on my knowledge, my wordpress blog is very healthy. That’s why I could easily achieved the first top 5 on google’s results for many of keywords.
But recently, my ranking suddenly decrease. I found out that maybe the problem caused by automatic spam links (or pingings), to my particular posts.
For example, I have this post : Cara Menghilangkan Komedo. Last week, this article was at #2. But then it slowly thrown out to #8 as for this day.
I found out that there’re many links pointed to my articles each day. Strange, I don’t bring out these links. So I guess, the links were spams.Please take a look at this screenshot from opensiteexplorer.org :
<img src=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/99865131@N07/10338018753/”>
All links on the list, have no actual inbound to my site. That’s weird. So I guess these links are pinged by someone to attack my site.
My question is, how to protect my wordpress blog from auto pinging or spammy links?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Referrer spam issues are not usually discussed on public forums. Think about that because everyone who is on the internet can access this forum and that includes spammers.
What Staff need is the URL and here’s the way to send it to them. Email support @ wordpress.com (without the spaces required to make the email address display here in this thread).
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I don’t mind. If it’s a hole security issue then we must aware of it.
It’s vulnerable that anyone can ping the wordpress’s blog, and hurt our blog.
Everyday I got pinging form unknown site. And I’m afraid it’s the cause of my ranks out from day to day.
This is the latest capture form opensiteexplorer.org (October 20, 2013)
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You can’t prevent other people from linking to your blog, but you CAN moderate pingbacks and spam the ones that are spam.
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@raincoaster
No, they’re not regular pinkbacks, because any pingback always appears on my dashboard. And I’m always notified by wordpress (if it’s a regular pingback).But they’re different. The backlinks on the screenshot do not point to any of my articles. They’re pinging my site without any traces on coresponded sites.
For example, please take a look at this :
it said that http://dericm777.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/a-workman-approved-by-god/ with the anchor text “dericm777’s Blog” point to my article (http://hadingrh.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/cara-mencegah-dan-menghilangkan-komedo/).But in reality that achor text link doesn’t point to my article. It’s just pinged anonymously. It’s a blackhat technics.
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Hi there,
If you notice WordPress.com sites with spam on them, please report those blogs as explained here: Report Mature or Spam Blogs
If the spammy sites that link to your blog aren’t hosted at WordPress.com, you can send us an email to support @ wordpress.com to report the URL of the referring site. There isn’t a way to force those sites to remove the link, but we do track those referrers on our end. Also, I want to reassure you that those links to your site aren’t a security risk — they can’t do any damage to your site or WordPress.com account just by being there.
Let me know if you have any questions about that. :)
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@rachelmcr
Thank you for your respond.
It’s not the case. I believe those website on the list are innocent. Even they didn’t know that someone used their website as a proxy of pinging to my blog by spammers.
All I asked here is, how to protect my wordpress blog from auto pinging or spammy links?Thank you
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@hadingrh – I took another look at the site you are using to check the links to your blog, and I noticed that in your screenshot you are looking at all links that point to pages on the root domain of your blog. The root domain is WordPress.com, so you’re ending up with all links that point to any page on any blog with a WordPress.com address. That’s why you’re seeing sites that don’t have actual links to your blog when you go to check them out.
If you want to filter the results to only pages that link to your blog, you can limit the search to “pages on this subdomain” (for links to any page on your blog) or “this page” (for links to a specific page on your blog). That should get you more accurate results if you want to look up the links back to your blog.
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@rachelmcr – I believe the results is filtered for a particular post, not to hadingrh.wordpress.com or wordpress.com. Please take a look at this :
example results.And as the first screenshot (http://www.flickr.com/photos/99865131@N07/10338018753/), the links come from other than wordpress.com blog.
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@hadingrh – The link you sent shows all links going to pages on the root domain WordPress.com. You can see links pointed to that specific page here: example results
You can filter the results by using the drop down menus above the list of links. To see only the links on your page, make sure those filters say “Show all links from all pages to this page” and not “Show all links from all pages to pages on this root domain.”
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@rachelmcr. Ohh what a shame.. I was totally wrong..
Thank you Rachel for the hint.
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