This past weekend I logged into my personal email account, the one that I forward all my UWM email to, and came across a disheartening realization: my EAI blog, yes, this blog, was spammed to hell and back. The spam wasn't of the normal blog variety of comment spam, which I've become quite accustomed too, but rather trackbacks/referals from bogus web sites. Just to clarify, I'm not talking about one or two emails, I'm talking around 75 emails in the span of less than two days.
I guess the thing I'm most curious about is how did a spammer actually come across this blog? I know the blog statistics are sent out to technoroti and possibly a few other blog trackers, but there is no way these blogs appear towards the top of any serach results for any topic. Furthermore, I wouldn't think a blog of this variety would be an ideal target for a spammer to spam. The reader base is extremly small and it doesn't hold any weight with the serach engines. However, the blog is hosted on a .edu site and I know .edu's hold more weight to the search engines than .com's or any other web site extension for that matter. Nonetheless, thats neither here nor there. The blog is new and the readers are few so I'm still at a loss for words.
If this continues, I'll be forced to turn off all trackbacks/pingbacks/referals etc. until the problem ceases to exist.
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