Editing Spam in blogs (section)

==History==
This type of spam originally appeared in internet [[guestbook]]s, where spammers repeatedly filled a guestbook with links to their sites and irrelevant comments, to increase their search engine rankings. If an actual comment is given, it is often just "cool page", "nice website", or keywords of the spammed link.

In 2003, spammers began to take advantage of the open nature of comments in the [[weblog|blogging]] software like [[Movable Type]] by repeatedly placing comments on various blog posts that provided nothing more than a link to the spammer's commercial web site. Jay Allen created a free plugin, called MT-BlackList,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jayallen.org/projects/mt-blacklist/|title=MT-Blacklist - A Movable Type Anti-spam Plugin |publisher=Jayallen.org |access-date=2012-01-09}}</ref> for the Movable Type weblog tool (versions prior to 3.2) that attempted to alleviate this problem. Many blogging packages now have methods of preventing or reducing the effect of blog spam built in due to its prevalence, although spammers too have developed tools to circumvent them. Many spammers use special blog spamming tools like trackback submitter<ref>{{Cite web|last=4.1kreads|date=2006-09-26|title=Beware of Trackback Submitter : Wordpress Blog Spam|url=https://www.searchenginejournal.com/beware-of-trackback-submitter-wordpress-blog-spam/3829/|access-date=2021-09-29|website=Search Engine Journal|language=en}}</ref> to bypass comment spam protection on popular blogging systems like Movable Type, WordPress, and others.