Can WordPress Comment Spam be Stopped?
I’ve been pretty lucky so far. Up until recently, I’ve averaged a couple spam comments per week on my blog. For some reason or another, things have changed and now I receive several per day. What happened? I’m not too sure. It happened roughly the same time I started blogging more frequently. Along with the traffic increase, the comment spam also increased. So how do I stop comment spam? Easy, right? Just install a wordpress plugin that handles comment spam protection. But wait, that’s a long frikkin list! Which one is the best? What do other bloggers recommend?
I have yet to figure out what the real value is in comment spam. Most Wordpress blogs use the rel=nofollow tag, which will prevent any search engine from following links in the comments, and any pagerank from being distributed. Are comment spambots created for the sole purpose of frustration? Or is it really a secret plot of the pharmaceutical companies to increase brand awareness by any means necessary?
on March 16th, 2006 at 5:04 pm
I use Akismet which is built into wordpress. It has stopped every single spam comment comming my way, and has never caught one that wasn’t spam, I love it!
on May 28th, 2006 at 7:18 pm
My blog is positively getting hammered since it’s PR went up to 4 and also since I began a posting frenzy.
I tracked back the affiliate ID to the affiliate program and reported it to their administrators. Time consuming but they said they were not in support of this activity and would handle the offender. He should get kicked out of his affiliate program which will hit him right in the nuts - after all I’m working for him deleting his comments and he’s not paying me for my time.
It’s easy to do just click on his link and find out what programs he’s promoting - then track that back to the affiliate program manager.
It’s basically simple - if they are allowing their affiliates to spam blogs, then
they are spammers themselves, once it has been brought to their attention.
They don’t want this label so they usually will handle it.
Obviously I can’t do this for everyone, but I will randomly - especially for gambling and pharmaceuticals which I will never ever promote.
I do need a mechanical tool to remove this annoying phenomena since I don’t have time to be a full time anti spam campaigner.
Take Care
on September 4th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting
on September 17th, 2007 at 12:10 am
It seems that the current crop of spam bots can be stopped - by using JavaScript.
I’ve written an explanation of how to hide the URL of the script that processes the comment form in an external JavaScript file, and then write the URL only when a human visitor wants to submit a comment. The bots never see the URL.
Defeating WordPress comment spam
It’s more complicated than a simple plugin. You need to be comfortable editing HTML and creating .js files, but this complexity also makes it more effective.
Good luck,
-ardamis
on February 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I stopped all my comment spam for my Wordpress blog by using “Comment Bot Nuker”. All the other plugins I tried for Wordpress only holds the comment spam from moderation and I was sick of wasting my time deleting all the comment spam on my blog from the bots.
I tried them all even the “add math” and Askimet. Most all the comment spam you will get is actually from the bots that scour the Internet looking for security breaches.
Using Comment Bot Nuker it nukes the comments before it is even held for moeration and lets the good comments through. So there is nothing to moderate. I don’t have to go through hundreds of comments held for moderation anymore. I found it here:
http://videomarketingtactics.com/vmt/stop-wordpress-spam