Hi. I'm using MT Personal 4.1.

All of a sudden I'm started getting a daily set of about 10 trackback pings, all with the same timestamp, all in the same format:



The Excerpt, URL, Title, and Blog are different in each. But the URL is always from the Google Notebook site, only the last series of digits changes. The IP address is always the same.

When I clean up the URL, it takes me to a list of links in someone's Google notebook.

I've selected these and reported them as spam. But they keep coming. Anything I can do to prevent them from showing up at all, such as blocking them by IP?

The site receiving the TBs is public but small and gets very virtually no traffic... it's still in a testing and development phase. These are the only TBs it's ever gotten.

Thank you.

I just added that IP to my .htaccess file to block them from getting any content from my site - they accounted for 50%+ of my traffic over the last few days - that's insane.

You can do the same if you'd like - create a file called .htaccess in the root of your site, and then put this in it:


For my site, this redirects traffic from this IP to a page that starts to load, then pauses for 30 or so seconds before it finishes loading. For my money, it's worth it - there's not a lot of load on my server, but it makes any request from them to my server take at least 30 seconds to load. Considering they're requesting lots of content, it's going to tie up their spider or whatever for a long time, and hopefully they'll get the hint.

Good luck!

(Edited: changed it to block the spammers full netblock - see this useful post for more info on the what and why I did it this way.