With all the new protections being employed by Bloggers, it is getting harder and harder for spammers to use Blogs spam to improve search engine ranking any more. Google came up with a new link attribute bloggers can use in their comment systems to make it so links in comments do not benefit the linked site. The other big search engines have promised to support the new attribute as well.
Not being the types to give up however, the spammers have turned to Trackback/Traceback spamming. (I explained what trackbacks were in this previous story.) Many had predicted this was going to happen, and now it has, blogs are full of stories complaining about the problem, and possible ways to fix it, but there doesn’t seem to be a consensus on a good solution yet. Basically the spammers are sending trackback’s to blogs from sites that don’t actually exist (usually though broken open relays) and the trackback has the link to the spammers site in it. Many blogs will list the trackback and it’s included link in the list of comments to a post, so in essence this is just as bad as normal comment spamming and at this point it is harder to stop.
