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Internet Marketing Making Your Wordpress Blog Spam Proof
s long as there is of time.
Internet marketing, there
will be spam. A lot of it WordPress blogs come with a
comes from overseas, but some of plugin, already installed, called
it is from people who just don't "Akismet," and it will
know any better. They learn to go automatically pick out the spam
about doing things the wrong way, comments and hold them for you,
and some of them can get into until you delete them. It's
trouble, as with email spamming. pretty efficient, and catches
But the people who spam blogs, about 90% of the spam comments
are by and large, just wasting that come in. To activate the
their time. plugin, click on the "Plugins"
tab from your WordPress
Rather than waste valuable dashboard. You'll see Akismet in
Internet marketing effort, people a grey or green bar. If the bar
should do something much more is grey, you'll need to activate
effective like writing articles the plugin so click on the link
or posting in their own blogs. on the right-hand side that says,
But some spend their money on "Activate."
"blog blasters," which randomly
spam blog comments throughout the To complete the process, you'll
blogging universe. What these need to get an API key from
people don't realize is that WordPress. This is a simple line
they've wasted their money. But of letters and numbers, and to
then, for every Internet get it, you just need to register
marketing success story, there with Word Press at
will be thousands of Internet http://wordpress.org. Once you've
marketing failures. People just signed up, WordPress will email
don't get it. Spamming WordPress the API key to you. When you see
blogs, at least, is a total waste it in your Inbox, go back to your
blog and click on the Plugins tab You have to approve your
again. To the far right, you'll comments. From the WordPress
see "Akismet Configuration." That dashboard, click on "Options,"
will take you to a page that has and then "Discussion." Set your
an empty box for that API key. preference to: "An administrator
Fill it in and click "Update API must approve the comment." Then,
Key." Bang! No more spam. you'll be able to see every
comment before it hits your blog.
Now, you'll have to monitor the Akismet is a great blocker, but
spam, so go to "Manage," from not 100%.
your Dashboard screen. You'll
then see that "Akismet Spam" Akismet will handle most of the
link. When you see there are spam problem. When your blog is new,
comments, if there are only a you may not have much spam, but
few, you can check to see that once it hits the search engines,
they're all spam. If so, then, you'll see it grow daily. Akismet
click on "Delete All!" and is one great way to control this
they're gone. Before my blog had quickly and easily. Let someone
so many spam comments, I found else waste their Internet
some legitimate comments and marketing time on stupid tricks.
could weed them out to be You won't have to.
approved. Now, we get hundreds of
spam comments every day, so
they're just all deleted. Anyone
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