Beware of Trackback Submitter : Wordpress Blog Spam

September 25th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 20 Comments

Beware of Trackback Submitter : Wordpress Blog Spam

Upon fixing the comment template and files here at Search Engine Journal today one of the first trackbacks to come in reminded me of the downside of having a popular Wordpress blog with comments enabled; comment spam.

The comment spam reads as follows:

Search Engine Marketing

This comment was submitted automatically using Trackback Submitter. If you would like to submit comments to thousands of blogs yourself (so you may get indexed fast and get thousands of backlinks automatically), please see Trackback Submitter web for m…

Trackback by Trackback Submitter — 9/25/2006 @ 7:45 pm

The blog spam is from a company dubbed Trackback Submit and their website is at submit-trackback.com. I’m not going to give these spammers (from IP 5.98.35.234) the reward of a link to their site, but thought our readers might get a kick out of their marketing message:

You read some stories about webmasters making thousands of dollars per day and decide to become one of them. You spend a few hundreds of dollars for domain names and hosting, build your own website easily, get several backlinks, place Google AdSense ads or affiliate links and wait for visitors to come and make you the money. You wait for a few months and nothing happens ? website gets no more than a few hundreds of visitors per day and you make only cents. Needless to say, you are feeling frustrated. But don?t be, 99% of webmasters fail exactly like you. It does not mean they are dumb - they just don?t have the right tools. If you got the same problem, there is a solution!

If you own Wordpress blog, beware of this company and their services. I would also recommend keeping a distance from their customers as well. Here’s a Trackback Spammer testimonial:

Hello and regards from Russia. I don?t have any AdSense website, but I?m running adult related websites and using affiliate program from AdultFriendFinder. I was making about 5 sales per week and was very happy about my results, but my older brother suggested to get Trackback Submitter. My adult websites make about 20-35 sales per week now. Honest ?Thank You? from happy webmaster.

Denis Z.
chiornyj_vurdalak@yahoo.com

Any tips for cutting down on Wordpress targeted comment nd trackback spamming? I use Akismet, but it seems to be letting in more trash day by day.

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Comments

20 responses so far ↓

Loren Baker, Editor on Sep 25, 2006 at 10:37 pm

Thanks Jonathan, I’ll check it out. Guess Bad Behavior cuts down on bandwidth and spam ‘attacks’ too then?
Jason on Nov 23, 2006 at 10:23 am

Can someone advice me how to stop this company customers spamming my blogs, please?

These spammers just released another tool ( commentposter.com ) and I’m completely tired now - their customers spam not only my blogs now, but also my other websites.

Please help!
search engine traffic on Nov 25, 2006 at 9:27 am

I do not get it. If this product is so powerful as claimed, why then does his website have no backlinks in Google or Yahoo?

Seems to me his product does not work anyway.
Dave on Nov 25, 2006 at 6:46 pm

This tool works in some different ways, that’s for sure. One of my old classmates ordered Trackback Submitter, his site still displays only several links on Yahoo, but he is laughing all the way to bank, because his earnings were increased SOMEHOW.
search engine ranking on Nov 26, 2006 at 11:43 am

Ok here is something else both sites have NO page rank at all zip, zero.

Am i missing something here?
Erling Ericsson on Nov 29, 2006 at 10:32 pm

I’d say more advanced artificial intelligence Forms are the way to go.. Atleast then you don’t have bots spamming your page.
Jason on Dec 1, 2006 at 5:35 am

It has backlinks, tons of backlinks. Just see siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.submit-trackback.com%2F&bwm=i&bwms=p&bwmf=u&fr=sfp&fr2=seo-rd-se

How the hell they got over 11.000 backlinks in 2 months!?
search engine placement on Dec 7, 2006 at 8:55 pm

Most of the links they have are from banner ads and other ads they have placed.

Hate to say it but most all of those links you see are NOT from track backs.
John on Jan 27, 2007 at 11:23 am

Askimet is keeping out 99%+ of the spam comments I get. But my stats (via Awstats) show large numbers of links coming in to my blog from spammers.

This does not seem to hurt my blog other than to screw up the stats, but I still don’t like the tone of these sites ostensibly pointing to me.

First, what’s their point? Second, is there any way I can block them without turning off trackbacks? Trackbacks are very useful to my site, when they’re legit.
Site de Rencontre Au Quebec on Feb 25, 2007 at 2:42 pm

I don’t like all those spams on my blogs, I waste alot of time just to delete them!

SDRQ
Michelle Greer on Dec 7, 2007 at 12:09 pm

It’s good to see these reviews. It seems like everyone is is looking for the next big thing now that paid links are dying, and I think we’ll stay away from this one.

Regards,
Michelle Greer
http://www.volusion.com
Adult Web Master Forum on Jan 20, 2008 at 2:07 pm

interesting, there was honour :)
jamie on Jan 30, 2008 at 6:56 am

You could always look at angsuman’s comment guard pro if you aren’t happy with akismet. I also use his translator which is just dandy!
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/comment-guard-pro-over-1-million-comment-spam-blocked/
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AoC on May 15, 2008 at 8:12 am

I just added that spam karma plugin, at least is eating now.. over 1,800 spams… :)
Koala on Jul 6, 2008 at 5:38 pm

This application is really useless, if you use it Google will punish you and you will fall down…
Bryan on Jul 22, 2008 at 4:35 am

Koala, you are so “experienced” and “smart”…. This is NOT spam tool. I use Trackback Submitter promoting my whitehat sites. I submit only less than 100 trackbacks per day and do it for months. And I clearly see higher traffic and better rankings.

So those “gurus” who believe that Trackback Submitter will not help getting indexed well, should shout their mouths.
Utah SEO on Jul 29, 2008 at 12:21 pm

I think the real issue is relevancy. I think when programs leave unrelated comments on blogs that just makes the website look worse. Thus is someone wanted to use automation, they should remember to still try to benefit the websites that are being participated in.
Adsenseboy Victim on Aug 27, 2008 at 2:28 am

Beware of Adsenseboy and his business tactics! Trackback Submitter is not working at all, though he doesn´t refund the money for several people that complained about that. He is a SCAM, feeling save in Lithuania. Rips off people. See the above website before you decide to buy his software.
aran on Aug 27, 2008 at 3:01 am

i use the recaptcha wordpress plugin. works great!