Is there anyway to block harassment
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I’ve been getting search terms like that for my blog. It’s all explained here
but I was wondering if there’s anyone I can contact to stop this from occuring?Or is this unfeasible?
I’m a bit angry and creeped out because the person used my siblings names in the search terms as well. It’s all a bit too coincedental.
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So, are you saying that all they do is use abusive search terms to come to your blog, where they don’t actually leave comments or do any harm? Then I’d say rest assured that someone out there who is childish hates you and forget about it. You can’t prevent other people from hating you, and trying to own their emotional reactions to you is a never-ending task that will drive you insane. We all have haters. If you have no enemies, you’re not leaving a big enough footprint to be noticed at all, as Mark Twain said rather more elegantly.
If they’re commenting you can indeed ban them from doing so, under Dashboard — > Options — > Discussions.
They’re trying to freak you out. Post that you’ve written them off as amateurs who aren’t literate enough to handle writing their own blogs and move on. Rising above it in this case is probably the single best thing you can do to drive them absolutely batshit with impotent rage.
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I think the only way to do it would be to take the blog private – but that would rather defeat the purpose.
If you want to try to find out who it is, try putting a tracker in. Activemeter works well to tell you the IP and location of many (but not all) of the visitors to your blog. You then have a chance of tracking them down. -
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Trust us: you’re nobody in the blogosphere until you’ve got a hater. So you’re now officially somebody!
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In case someone comes across this, asking Support for help is of no use.
We cannot block people, IP’s, countries or search terms.Raincoaster has by far the best advice above:
Rising above it in this case is probably the single best thing you can do to drive them absolutely batshit with impotent rage. -
I don’t think you are being harassed by search terms. Those are actual valid search terms that bring up your blog. You’re seeing those results because A) those are things random people are searching for and B) that’s what you write about. If you’re in the top 10 google results from a search term, you’re going to get the occasional click because of it.
http://www.google.ca/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-15,GGGL:en&q=acca+student+boyfriend+is+a+dick
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&rls=GGGL%2CGGGL%3A2006-15%2CGGGL%3Aen&q=hypocrites+at+my+school&btnG=Search&meta= -
I was wondering if there’s anyone I can contact to stop this from occuring?
As engtech points out: the search terms are all topics that you choose to blog about and to title your posts with. Consequently, when people search these terms the results point to your blog and they click through to it. It’s as simple as that. You are not being harassed by search terms.
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I agree with engtech and timethief. I’ve gotten some pretty wild search results based on things in my posts. Rather than get worried about people who’ve found my blog searching terms like “soiled knickers” (which might just creep a person out if you thought too much about it) I tend to use those wacky searches as a source of humour.
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I think I should point out the fact that the search terms arent random and it’s been happening for a month. The fact that I don’t give out “free blowjobs” or that I’m not fucking a white guy should point to it not being completely haphazard. And using my siblings names with the word “sex” in it as well is disturbing. Plus, there was instance when they searched for “Raoul rapes Sharina”. Raoul is my boyfriend’s name and Sharina is mine. Now how is that just searching for terms on my blog?
Terms like : “abortion after having sex with malay ACCA student” is not someone looking for articles on my blog.
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I should ALSO point out that I’m one of the few Malaysian girls who’s been outspoken on things that are taboo. Like homosexuality and pre-marital sex. This is probably the effect of it.
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Rain, maybe if you would stop stealing everybody else’s content, predating it by months and then complaining about how you blogged about it first, you wouldn’t get those death threats. :)
You did the best thing that you could do though – You changed themes and got the text that Google was hitting on (ie the ‘ACCA student’ blurb) out of there. This is the same issue I had eons ago where the search engine spiders were picking up on the category listing I had on my sidebar and doing all sorts of false positives.
Look at Engtech’s first google link up there and compare it against the previous version that Google still has it in cache.
Note the colored text and you can see what Google is picking up on. With that sidebar no longer there, it will hopefully drop out of the index fairly quickly.
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