Aksimet Spam Detection Own Posts
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I logged-on to my WordPress account today and checked the stats. No that our blog is popular. Rather, I just wanted to see what was there.
I noticed that there are 6 posts flagged by Akismet as spam. However, when looking at them they appear to be my own posts (not comments at all).
I typically edit an older post in order to copy the html. I then create a new post, paste that html into the new post, and subsequently edit it for the new content. I will save the new post as a draft, and view it/tweak it until it is ready to post.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Are they by chance pingbacks from when you linked to one of your own posts from within another post? Pingbacks will typically end with […]
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Yeah – pingbacks are probably what they are. The spam triggers do match up each time I use the same block of text in multiple posts. I am not actually linking to the posts directly (most of the time), but rather am using the same block of text.
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You can delete them if you wish. There’s no need to post them. See here for stopping self pings > http://en.support.wordpress.com/pingbacks/#can-i-stop-self-pings
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Also what do you mean by “using the same block of text” and why would you create duplicate content. I don’t understand that. Can you provide a link please so we can see what you mean?
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@eliteblogadmin, the copy and paste you are doing with the title and the format shouldn’t cause a problem and unless you actually include links to other posts on your site, you should not be getting pingbacks from your own blog, and with you as the blog owner, it should definitely not be getting caught in the spam filter.
Check the email address and website shown for those suspect comments. Are they linked to your blog URL?
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@timethief – We are copying some information from previous posts so that the blog subscribers get reminded of an event or something like that; e.g., reminding the subscribers to bring canned goods to the holiday party. All I am doing is copying some of the older post’s HTML and pasting into into the new post,
Here is a link to a screen-grab of what I am seeing.
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It’s the links to the canned goods drive that you are copying and pasting in that are causing the pingbacks. I would mark several of them as “not spam” and then you can delete them from the comments queue. The reason I suggest that is to let Akismet know that they are NOT spam, that they are legitimate pingbacks. Akismet will learn and stop sending them to the spam queue.
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