02.15.06
Fight Spam!
Fighting comment spam has become a daily activity for me. I have heard that this has happened to other blogs but hadn’t yet hit my own until recent weeks. Everyday I clean up about 10-15 spam entires on CyberWyre. These comments have ranged from links to affiliate sites to comments with no text other than a link to another blog.
In order to keep your readers coming back, you always have to be on top of the comments being left on your site. You work hard on your content, and blending your advertisements in with your layout — why are you going to let someone else ruin all of this hard work?
The two biggest suggestions I have to fight comment spam are:
1) Install the Spam Karma plugin for WordPress. It’s an amazing tool and has greatly cut down the time I spend dealing with spam comments daily.
2) Report the spammers. If their affiliates cut them off, then they won’t have any reason to spam the link on your site, or other sites again.
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An easy way to prevent comment spam is to install a CAPTCHA.
Akismet working just fine for me.
Akismet is the best ever.
I have spam too. Most use hyperlinks to casinos, loans etc.
Lately to get around my filters I get stuff like
HOME LONE MORE GAUGE RAT
You have to wonder about these people.
Haha.. I’m getting the same kinds of messages. My filter’s pretty good for comments, but every day I get 8 or 9 messages through my contact form on my About page. Very annoying…
Thanks for this great plugin! Works fine – only my old PDA doesn’t understand UTF-8 – most blogs are coded like this – so special characters aren’t displayed correctly.