i’ve had the machete out and i’ve been using it in the blogosphere jungle for a while, conjuring up images of uma thurman in “kill bill”. but that wasn’t a machete. hehehehe. this is all theoretical blogosphere talk….but it makes me feel like i’m ‘putting on the full armor of god’ when i fight back. sometimes when i’m doing battle in the sphere, i can actually hear singing swords…or maybe i’m just hearing my husband watching “the last samarai”.

There are two things I’m interested in managing here: splogs and bots or crawlers/spiders.

The splogs that are stealing my content need to have a monkey wrench thrown into their cake. So far, I’ve found it to be working, which is so delightful!

I’ve added some weapons to my arsenal, and here are the ones for the splogs.

Plugins for wordpress to battle splogs:

Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter

Maxpower.ca’s Digital Fingerprint

AntiLeech

Another annoying entity crawling the blogs are spiders. In order to prevent them from injecting malicious code into your posts, or even your SQL, what you need is Bot Tracker. It has an amazing admin panel that shows up on your dashboard where you can look at statistics, visits, and attacks. You can set it to block attacks, too, so I’m just beginning to realize the benefits of having it installed.

Make sure you have plenty of concentration time because that thing has a lot of files to upload to your back end.

Within a very short time, it had already caught a googlebot trying to inject some code, and a few other bots - one from China, and another from the Russian Federation.

Happy hacking.

Update: You might also want to put this list into your .htaccess file.

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