BusinessWeek's Blogspotting blog has another post on trackback spam. This
time Stephen Baker says the trackback spam they are receiving has reached
a new high:
The sun is shining, birds are singing, and I'm sitting on the couch deleting
the 62 trackback spams that have arrived since yesterday. For now, these spams
are easy to spot. They're mostly about online poker and miracle drugs, and
they make no attempt to look authentic. From our experience with email
spammers, you can bet that two things will happen. They'll continue to
rachet up the volume, and they'll fine tune their pitches to blend in with
authentic trackbacks.
The trackback spam problem is leading some blogs to point to weblog search engines like Bloglines, Blogpulse and Technorati for incoming links. However, if blog search tools like Technorati get clogged with spam blogs then it poses problems for blogs that point to Technorati for trackback links like Boing Boing, Weblogs, Inc.'s blogs and this blog.
