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[Make Money Online Guide] My experience of owning blogs agrees with the above, most comments are indeed SPAM :-( So I fully understand why the WordPress developers have taken this step due to the plethora of blog comment SPAM currently plaguing the blogosphere, but it comes at a cost to WordPress users, real commenter’s no longer get a link back to their site and this is bad for blogging!

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[Dublingame] Are You Using These Wordpress Plugins That Will Monetize Your Blog ...: As for us everyday non-developer WordPress fanatics who are constantly searching for cool new plugins to make our site attract visitors and earn some money, the WordPress Plugin Database is populated with plugins that can help generate web site traffic to your blog, sell your ebooks, share web site links, podcast your message, offer a public forum for returning visitors, and fight spam in the process.

[Make Money Online Guide] Comment Spam: Phentermine, Xanax and Blackjack: For example in a short period of time using link spamming techniques I managed to take my new online Lingerie business from a trickle of organic traffic per day to up to 8,000 unique visitors per day just before Google banned it (presumably for comment spamming) November 2004 and now it languishes at around 1,000 visitors per day with traffic mostly from Yahoo and MSN (lingerie traffic is very low quality, so 1,000 visitors isn’t enough to run a successful business, so that sites gone affiliate now).

[Armed and Dangerous] Armed and Dangerous » Blog Archive » Spam inundation may result in ...: I wouldn’t bother my readers about this, except that if one of your posts happens to trigger the spam filter, the odds that I will notice and rescue it have dropped significantly. It’s easier to notice the ham in a dozen putative items of spam, which was the typical length of queue last week, than when the queue is 217 items long as it was just now.

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[The Flash Blog] theFlashBlog » Wordpress Users? Help me fight the spam!: Don’t get me wrong, I love Indian porn, black cream pies (?), and I already have a good source for cheap Xanax. Does anyoe know of a good comment blog system to filter this crap out?

[Portagemma] Portagemma » Spam Karma 2 Anti Comment Spam Plugin for Wordpress: Spam Karma 2 is a widely used anti-spam solution for wordpress blogs. Works very well, extremely configurable and works automatically

[LiewCF.com] Akismet - the global anti spam plugin for wordpress: Akismet works like Spam Karma, but instead collecting spam data from a single site, Akismet collects data globally from all blogs using Akismet. Theoretically, Akismet should work better than the locally installed Spam Karma.

[WebVedas.com | The ultimate knowledge center for Web Design, CSS, SEO, Blogging, Wordpress and internet technologies..] WebVedas.com | The ultimate knowledge center for Web Design, CSS ...: Lastly, in order to prevent Wordpress spam, just make sure that only registered users are allowed to comment, this highly helps in cutting down the rubbish created by spam-bots. You can take this step by going into admin panel and selecting the option of ”˜registered and logged in users only comment’.

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