March 3rd, 2009 
Ricardo V - Comments & Spam
- As your site/blog becomes more popular people will want to share it with others. As this happens people will also want to leave you a few comments. Comments generally are very harmless. They can contain questions, tips, and feedback from your readers. The issue occurs when you have people, or bots, coming to your site for the sole purpose of spamming their links via comments.
When your site gets indexed by google their is a good chance their spam links will be picked up as well. This may or may not create a negative relationship with your site and google, or link your site to the other spam site. The main thing to remember about spam comments is that they are annoying and distracting to the readers, as well as to the blogger.
- 1. Spam Blockers
- Spam in the sense of comment spam, I personally use the built in Akismet and I also installed WP-Spam Free. They both seem to be doing a fine job. WP-Spam Free actually comes with a built in contact form. You can see an example by click in Contact on my site.
- Akismet comes preloaded with WordPress and can be activated in your plugin folder. Akismet requires you to register with WordPress.com and get an API key so it can effectively track and block the spam.
- WP-Spam Free is a free plugin which can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-spamfree/
- WP-Spam Free comes equipped with many features. The most useful being the Comment Spam Prevention of course, but it also comes with an Email Contact Form which, although basic, can definitely get the job done.
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