Lately I have been fighting with review spammers on a website that I care for. It has been a horoablr and brutal battle with no end in sight. The website is set up with a simple review function so that people can review the products. Well the idea is good but I had not thought of ways that people can abuse this function. It seems that every day the site takes in about ten or so spam reviews, oh they are the purest form of spam. All it seems to be is a bunch of websites all in a row with NO real content or value. I don’t mind people pitching their websites in a review, but this is ridicules!
My first attempt at discouraging them was a fake virus warning that I attaches to the review button, but that just pissed them off so they started to spam the contact form. I think I will put that back up for a few more days with a few more changes to make it look more real.
For now I just keep deleting them as fast as I can, so the review is never indexed.
Wish me luck!!
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