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[howtofixblogs.com] One of the most serious problems with any blogging system, including WordPress, is that the comments area is wide open to that scourge of the Internet, spammers. In this case, it's comment spam.Comment spam is created by people seeking to boost their Google rankings by having lots of links pointing to their own websites.

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[howtofixblogs.com] Spam Comments and Wordpress | howtofixblogs.com: Akismet: Wordpress comes installed with a plugin called Akismet that recognizes spam comments and separates them from the others. To use Akismet, you will have to activate it and then enter your API key.

[ProBlogger Blog Tips] Banishing Spammers and Trolls With .htaccess Files: Except even broadband internet access almost always sports dynamic IPs, which means you won’t just be blocking out the troll, but maybe innocent people who have the bad luck to share their ISP. So if your spammer/troll uses a free aol trial account for example, using it until they are busted and move on, you’ve just nuked other folks who happened to get the same IP assigned after a modem reboot or something.

[Naples Web Design] WordPress Spam | Naples Web Design: So back on topic, why do these morons spam wordpress comments? Even if the great spam catcher wordpress has doesn’t catch their comment, their links will still be nofollow.

[SEO, Internet Marketing and Business News] The end of the Wordpress Comment Spam « SEO, Internet Marketing ...: Yesterday, after a whole year of not blogging, I’ve updated my wordpress to the latest 2.7.x and I found so much Anti-Spam tools built in. I’m extremely happy to find the Akismet+built in spam detection to capture 99.9% of all spam messages.

[Daily Blog Tips] 1021740 Spam Comments Blocked: Thanks Akismet!: I am probably minority but I am far from happy about Akismet. Can’t say I am very active commenter (comparing to some) but I lost count of times when I had to email fellow bloggers and ask to fetch my comments out of Akismet spam (and it’s always Akismet except few times with crappy IP blocks).

[Glenn Burks - Get More Out of Life!] Fighting Wordpress Comment Spam: After all I'm sure you'd agree that you have better things to do then spend time looking through all the Wordpress Comment Spam that comes in each day, right! Most of us, myself included probably really don't grasp the problem as far as what a time waster it is.

[Blog Mum] WordPress Comments | Blog Mum | WordPress made easy: Spammers commonly post a list of dozens of links. Comment moderation and comment blacklist lists allow you to set your own lists of words that will throw comments into moderation or be marked as spam.

[Internet Marketing Spike / Published News] Internet Marketing Spike - Banishing Spammers and Trolls With ...: WordPress does a great job helping you to discover the commentors IP address. Simply go to the comment section in your WordPress dashboard or to your spam moderation folder and below the email address and website is the IP address of the .

[Comments for Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems» Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems & Marketing Strategy] Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration: Well, I started with Spam Karma and was happy with until one bad day came - my hosting provider closed my account because it was using too much of CPU resources, mostly because of DB queries generated by spambots and Spam Karma fighting them. Changing the hosting company isn't an easy task, especially when you want to get you site running again - I had to get rid of Spam Karma and switch to Akismet.

[Akismet Blog] Eliminating spam is good SEO « Akismet: None of them are relevant to the topic at hand, they’re written in a language that a four year old would be ashamed of, and they usually hit the same blog under different names with the same exact message multiple times within seconds. And those ambiguous ones(for instance: “wow, interesting point of view.”) They should be deleted simply on the principle that it’s a completely useless comment, spurring no thought, reciprocal comment or other action.

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