Controlling Spam - Does Akismet Work?
Writing by Brick Marketing Staff on Saturday, 15 of September , 2007 at 10:23 pm
One of the biggest time wasters a blogger has is dealing with spam comments.
Many bloggers don’t like people who post a comment on their blog just for the link back to their website or blog. They call that spam. I don’t. It’s part of life and business on the web. As long as the comments are really relative to the post and/or comments that others are posting, then it does me no harm for them to have a link back.
There are paid services where clients pay someone to go out and post comments on blogs for the links back to their website. Again, as long as they are relevant posts, I have no problem with it.
What I am talking about is drive-by spammers and bots.
Drive-by spammers use stuff like, “great post!” “I have something similar at my harley davidson website” with a link back to their harley site when my blog was about birdseed.
They are pretty obvious and as long as you moderate comments, you can delete them.
The bots are relentless. Automated software putting links into the comments on thousands of blogs each day. I’ve found that the Akismet Plugin works very well to catch these and I can mass delete them by pressing a button.
If you know of other ways to prevent spam on blog comments, post them here to help us all get rid of this blogging annoyance.
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