I suppose the launch of such a tool will make the situation even worse. Hopefully the webmasters will put into effect the countermeasures that you presented.
Great writeup.
Jeff
· 1 year ago
This is a great tool for spamming!
Fifty Studio
· 1 year ago
Does it violate licensing to remove "powered by pligg"
Gab Goldenberg
· 1 year ago
@Fifty - I heard it does violate the license and that's why Sphinn has left it up.
@Dean - Nice article. I've got a related idea on how to use the software better than the default install and was thinking we might talk shop - just added you on msn; feel free to email me too (it's Gab from SEOmoz's offices after SMX Advanced).
Chewie
· 1 year ago
Fifty: Yeah it is against the license to remove the "powered by pligg" but if you have a Pligg based site then i would take the risk of removing it. I'm all for giving back to developers, so if people do remove it i suggest they give back to Pligg community in other ways such as donating.
Gab: Good to here from you. I'll be on MSN Monday and we will certainly have a chat, i look forward to any ideas you have :o)
Also, on the topic of Sphinn leaving the Pligg text. I know they have sharp moderators so its probably not going to filter through to the front of the site.
Anthony Shapley
· 1 year ago
I don't really see an issue, these sites want you to submit your stories. All this does is speeds it up a little. I'm not using it, but am certainly tempted to.
The only time it becomes a problem is when there isn't any Quality Control in place to make sure shit isn't accepted into these pligg sites.
Its a great bit of software for any halve decent blogger trying to improve visibility.
I'm wondering if we can just use an image link to pligg instead of the html link. This might help out... Version 1.0 is suppose to have email verification, this too will help... I recently looked at my logs, received 22 registered attempts, so far so good. Thanks for the info. Less wookie, poor wookie..
Chewie
· 1 year ago
Hey WBC
Using a link to pligg should be fine, i have taken it off all the sites myself.
If you are using recaptcha then it should massively reduce the amount of spam registers you get. Also you can install the user reg by email add on without having to wait til 1.0
juju
· 1 year ago
hi chewie, can you tell how to install user reg by email addon to pligg 9.9.5? the pligg forum did mention it but it seems not suitable to version 9.9.5...
Chewie
· 1 year ago
Hi Juju,
Can you not just go ahead and try and install it for 9.9.5 and see what happens? In what way are they saying it is unsuitable? Got a link to the post?
Alfredo
· 11 months ago
there is always a lazy tool for lazy people. this is one of 'em.
Eligio
· 10 months ago
I was looking for the software and stumbled on this site, i was too tired to get outrank by people who is using this tool. i might try this one day. cool toy for spammer.
perdere peso
· 8 months ago
Thank you! These tips worked fine. Though I'm still pissed off: I can't spend 30 minutes (much more!!) every time there is a new Pligg security threat. Too bad for the people behind Pligg!
seolinkpro
· 5 months ago
you guys are so naive... we will find your pliggs... and we will spam them.
Auto submitters are some of the oldest spam tools, their main issue is that are relatively limited in imagination (eg. will not change the details of any link) and this will make google eventually rate your site as a "black seo" site. I tried this for an automotive tools site and it didn't harm the pagerank or search rating.
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I suppose the launch of such a tool will make the situation even worse. Hopefully the webmasters will put into effect the countermeasures that you presented.
Great writeup.
@Dean - Nice article. I've got a related idea on how to use the software better than the default install and was thinking we might talk shop - just added you on msn; feel free to email me too (it's Gab from SEOmoz's offices after SMX Advanced).
Gab: Good to here from you. I'll be on MSN Monday and we will certainly have a chat, i look forward to any ideas you have :o)
Also, on the topic of Sphinn leaving the Pligg text. I know they have sharp moderators so its probably not going to filter through to the front of the site.
The only time it becomes a problem is when there isn't any Quality Control in place to make sure shit isn't accepted into these pligg sites.
Its a great bit of software for any halve decent blogger trying to improve visibility.
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Using a link to pligg should be fine, i have taken it off all the sites myself.
If you are using recaptcha then it should massively reduce the amount of spam registers you get. Also you can install the user reg by email add on without having to wait til 1.0
Can you not just go ahead and try and install it for 9.9.5 and see what happens? In what way are they saying it is unsuitable? Got a link to the post?
Thanks
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