Is it normal to have people register on a site that is not even developed yet?

[urljunky]

I have a site plumbingsupplyparts(.)com and it's just been sitting there undeveloped for about 3 months. ( a project i started and haven't had a chance to get back to.) but 86 people have registered on the site and i keep getting 1-3 more everyday. It seems like the more people sign up the more people keep signing up. At first it was just 1 random person than 3 than 10 and now like I said there will be over a hundred by the end of this month. Is this normal for a site that doesn't show up on any search engine?

 

[cdboard]

what is on the site? some default forum installation?


you might have spammers who are waiting for the right time to post their links

or

you have a great topic and it's going to take off

 

[urljunky]

what is on the site? some default forum installation?


you might have spammers who are waiting for the right time to post their links

or

you have a great topic and it's going to take off

Its actually an ecommerce theme where people can sign up and open their own shop to sell their own plumbing supply parts. (hence the site plumbingsupplyparts(.)com) But what i want to know is how are these people finding the site? is it spammers? I just don't get how they work? i have a plumbing company and it's site gets people posting spam all the time, but i never ok it to post i just delete it or let it sit there unapproved.

 

[N-A]

There's subtle text that can be searched for from spammers. Those leaving WordPress comments tend to search for things like "Powered by WordPress" or meta box words/phrases. Your theme has to have been developed by a 3rd party on some CMS that is "exploitable" to some extent and easy to find in 1 million pages because these subtle words (it could even be in the source code) that you're not seeing.

 

[urljunky]

There's subtle text that can be searched for from spammers. Those leaving WordPress comments tend to search for things like "Powered by WordPress" or meta box words/phrases. Your theme has to have been developed by a 3rd party on some CMS that is "exploitable" to some extent and easy to find in 1 million pages because these subtle words (it could even be in the source code) that you're not seeing.

that makes sense, because in my webmaster tools i see searches sometimes for xxxxx/wordpress and phrases like that, but I've yet to see any searches or impressions even come up for that site. Makes sense now how they are finding it. It was purchased through a 3rd party.

 

[Mobiller]

You can always add a Captcha plugin on your WordPress theme. It helps a little bit with the spammers or at least makes a little bit more difficult from them to post.

 

[urljunky]

You can always add a Captcha plugin on your WordPress theme. It helps a little bit with the spammers or at least makes a little bit more difficult from them to post.

The post's on my blogs for my plumbing company don't even bother me because I never approve them so they never actually get posted to the page. Plus it would take me forever to even delete them as there are thousands. And they are mostly all about b e b e and other high end products that i'm sure they are counterfeiting.
Should I continue to let people register on the site that is undeveloped? Would it add value when it is finally developed and I go to sell it if there are more registered users?

 

[Mobiller]

To be honest with you, I believe that they are most Spammers but it is entirely up to you. I've been thorugh it in different WP themes. Why anyone would register in an undeveloped website ?

 

[urljunky]

To be honest with you, I believe that they are most Spammers but it is entirely up to you. I've been thorugh it in different WP themes. Why anyone would register in an undeveloped website ?

My thoughts exactly, it just doesn't make sense to me at all.

 

[Mobiller]

Install a captcha plugin and see if the numbers of people registering will reduce, it wont affect your site at all. When I've done that on my sites it stopped completely Have a try

 

[urljunky]

Install a captcha plugin and see if the numbers of people registering will reduce, it wont affect your site at all. When I've done that on my sites it stopped completely Have a try

Great Idea. I'll do that. Thanks.

 

[Tia Wood]

A client of mine uses Sabre which is an older plugin so use with caution.

Other things you might want to consider:

• iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security)
• Enable Akismet

 

[alien51]

Yes, those registrations are very normal from spammers. I even get those on Joomla installations. Usually it waits until you install some kind of Comment plugin/component on your site, and then they will start bombarding your articles with comments containing links.

 

[Rado_Ch]

100% spammers and bots. Add a captcha or a quality authenticating plugin and the registrations will all "surprisingly" cease

 

[SpareDomains]

Don't have anything running on wordpress currently but when I did always used captcha and I deleted wordpress/version so it wouldn't be as searchable from spammers. Think there was some security plug in that removed version info along with a few other tweaks but been so long don't remember which plug in it was.