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How To Eliminate Wordpress Blog Comment Spam
ne of the most serious information and/or deliver
problems with any blogging notification emails to you that
system, including it denies service to the
WordPress, is that the comments legitimate requests. In at least
area is wide open to that scourge one case, a blogger received over
of the Internet, spammers. In two thousand email notifications
this case, it's comment spam. of comments that needed approval;
as he dealt with these, he
Comment spam is created by people continued getting more,
seeking to boost their Google ultimately crashing his mail
rankings by having lots of links server.
pointing to their own websites.
This causes a wide variety of As you can see, even if you have
problems: your comments set to post only
upon approval, this can be a
• When Google detects content serious problem. One solution is
spam, they will often block the the Akismet plugin for WordPress.
site it's coming from because it
messes up their ranking system. Akismet Plugin and Other Plugin
Options for WordPress
• It takes up your valuable
time and bandwidth to eliminate Akismet is designed to help you
these posts. filter out those nasty spammers,
and it's not hard to get it
• If the onslaught of spam is installed into your WordPress
heavy enough, it may result in a system. Download the plugin, and
denial-of-service attack, upload it to the blog directory
intended or not, which is a on your server in the plugins
situation in which the server subdirectory under wp-content.
tries so hard to post bad Activate from the WordPress
plugins menu. If you have a post directly to the comments
notice that you need the Akismet area.
API, go to the WordPress website
and look or ask for one. If This Still Doesn't Work
Here's the magic: the only If you still can't eliminate
instruction in Akismet is "forget spammers with these plugins, you
that spam was ever a problem." can eliminate them by denying
You don't have to do anything them access to your comments
else at all - the spam will area. This does not mean you have
simply be bounced. You will not to disable your comments section,
receive a notification, nor will only that you need to set up a
you have to go out and delete filter.
spam.
It's not usually as simple as
Another plugin for eliminating just blocking their IPs. Serious
spam from bots is the "Did You spammers use random IPs, while
Pass Math" plugin. This one makes blocking IPs may get rid of them
the user perform a simple math for a short time, it will
problem before submitting a ultimately prevent legitimate
comment. As most humans can comments from being posted.
handle this and most spambots Spammers are also notorious for
can't, it's pretty likely that a hijacking other people's IP
comment posted through this is a addresses. But as a short-term
legitimate comment. You should emergency solution, you can try
add a note of caution that your it. The IP address is included in
comments will be deleted if you the information packet for the
answer the math wrong, though; a comment; it's similar to a
wise commenter will use an traceable phone number. Look for
offline composition tool, not clear patterns in your IP
numbers. automatically readable.
Use the .htaccess file to block When you think you have your
unwanted IPs from even seeing problems addressed, you can
your blog. For instance, these remove the block from your
lines can be added: .htaccess file. If it still
doesn't work, or if you don't see
order allow,deny an IP pattern, it's likely that
deny from 123.123.123.123 spambots are hijacking someone
deny from 456.456.456.* else's machine to attack your
deny from 789.789.*.* site. In this case, do not use
allow from all the IP block.
IPs are four-part numbers, such Again, if you don't have an IP
as 192.168.0.1. Typically, if you pattern of attack, this may not
see a pattern with the first two be worth doing. Remember, too,
sections being identical, you can that with IP addresses, the first
block all IPs of that type by numbers affect the largest number
simply listing them as of computers, like a reverse
192.168.*.*, as you see above. address: USA, California,
This screens out all these IP Sacramento, X Building, Ste. 101,
numbers. Blocked IPs will get a Joe Schmo. An IP follows roughly
403 error page; customize yours the same pattern, with the last
so that your contact details are of the four sections referring to
listed in case you're blocking the specific computer it is
out a legitimate user. Don't use attached to.
your regular email; a spammer can
harvest that too, for a whole new Google's Nofollow Attribute
set of problems. Instead, encode
your email so that it's not Of course, if it's a waste of
their time to spam you, spammers easy target, as a waste of time.
may just skip you altogether. For
this reason, you can use the This is not an immediate fix. But
Google Nofollow attribute for it is a way to make your blog
links: . This attribute is resistant to spammers in the
embedded automatically by modern future. If you're already a
versions of WordPress. target, you'll have to work with
it slowly, incorporating all
It does not eliminate links, these fixes. If you aren't a
which is what spammers are target, the very least you should
working on adding to your site. do is turn on the nofollow option
Instead, it makes those links in your WordPress system; this
irrelevant to Google. The end will deter any hungry spambots.
result is that it doesn't hurt Upgrade your version, or look for
your rank in Google, and it one of the plugins that provides
doesn't help a spammer to send this service for you.
data to your site. It also marks
you, for spambots looking for an
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