Advanced Guestbook.... Spam

[peachweb]

If you have applied all the anti-spam mods that Carbonize has provided and are still getting SPAM, I have figured out how to relieve the problem

 

Simply change the name of the folder that you have your guestbook in.

 

The spammers are people who apparently have nothing better to do other than go through search engines with phrases like "Advanced Guestbook" or "Leave your mark" as their search criteria.

 

By changing the name of the folder that you keep the guestbook in, when they click the link, they get a 404 error. Or, I set up a redirect to a custom 403.shtml page that basically tells them to go away.

 

When I start to receive the spam again, I know that a web spider has crawled my site. So... I change the name of the folder again. etc.

 

Instead of cleaning up my book on a daily basis, I may clean up 2 or 3 every few weeks.

 

My 0.02

[peachweb]

Oh, and of course I change the hyperlink to it on my site........

[stevevan]

While I don't have a guestbook on any of my sites, that seems to me like an easy way to go! Thanks for sharing!

[bellringr]

Not so easy when a person may have dozens of different pages with a link to the guestbook. That would be a real pain on my site.