Businessweek to turn off trackbacks on Blogs

Due to spam concerns, Business Week is considering turning off trackbacks.

We understand this,  the Tribble Ad Agency get’s about 45 or so bogus trackbacks per day,  and only 3 or so vaild ones.  We suggest they don’t… but the trackback system should be upgraded to reflect a spam filter.

Most trackbacks use the nofollow tag,  so there isn’t any search engine help from spamming them.   They must be going for direct traffic.