Wondered why my google analytics data was going up when there was not any content update in last 6 month or so.The secret was comment spam ;-(
Massive comments’ spam has been cleaned up. New version of BlogEngine has some better spam fighting features.
Blogengine 1.6.1 has some new admin features as well that allow more or less bulk comment deletes.
An upgrade from version 1.5 of BlogEngine to 1.6.1 was pretty easy since I did not have too many customizations. Left “themes” and “app_data” folders unchanged > deleted everything else > uploaded new files from version 1.6.1 without overriding before mentioned folders.
It is hard to live without tool like Xenu's Link Sleuth in today Internet age. This tool help me with projects at work. I scanned this blog and found that I need to do some cleaning here as well.
"Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web sites for broken links. Link verification is done on "normal" links, images, frames, plug-ins, backgrounds, local image maps, style sheets, scripts and java applets. It displays a continously updated list of URLs which you can sort by different criteria. A report can be produced at any time. "
