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removing spam urls
does anyone know how to either remove or filter out from search results urls that spam

e.g. if someone has the domain http://casino-casino-casino-casino-casino-casino-casino.com

otherwise it is too easy for people to spam with links sql :-(



thanks for your help

ashley
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Thats what my duplicate link plugin checker is for, and also the admin validation section Wink If it gets through there, then obviously someone isn't paying attention Tongue

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Andy (mod)
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not complaining about duplicate urls........

just complaining where people have purposely chosen a domain which increases their ranking. e.g.

casino-casino-casino-casino.com/casino/casino/casino.php?casino=casino

also need something that can run to check this after it is in the database not when it is added or validated beacuse its already in our links database.

thanks
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Its not really that easy. How would you intend to 'point out' URL's like that? Maybe slice up the URL, then check for duplicate words in it? That would still limit reasonable sites, such as;

this-is-his-site.com

(is and his, this and his).

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Just a suggestion - if you are using internal indexing you could change the weight for the url field to zero so that it isn't used in the search results at all, or, if you still want the url to be searched, you could leave the weight at 1 and increase all other weights that you are using so that it isn't ranked as high.