Comments on: The Most Comment-Spammed Blog in America

By: Alma Johnson

Alma Johnson — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:55:29 +0000

I’m not a big-time blogger but I have had some stupid spam comments that actually made no sense, just a bunch of gibberish with some links thrown in. I presume this must be some type of automated software? Anyway, I not only put Askimet into effect but I also just started using reCAPTCHA WordPress Plugin to see how effective it will be. If my blog does grow I don’t want to end up spending most of my time trying to sort through a pile of comments. Maybe I’ll eventually turn them right off if it gets worse.

By: Donny

Donny — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 05:27:12 +0000

@Arunabh: I Totally agree with you. Akismet is the best wordpress plugin for any wordpress-based blog.

@William: Thanks man, this is very nice posts. SPAM is very irritating..

By: Arunabh

Arunabh — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:00:01 +0000

Askimets certainly makes life easier for every blogger. In my opinion its one of the best plugins available for wordpress.

By: SEO guy

SEO guy — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:21:26 +0000

Hahaha.. it is funny to read your conversation with that guy.
Somehow, ho many spam commments to your blog indicates that your blog become more famous and got more visitors.
well, congratulation then…!
BTW I use simple captcha plugin to help me with spam on my comments.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:12:14 +0000

Ever since I activated Akismet on my wordpress blog, Ive cut the spam down to almost 100%. It was getting crazy there for a while.

By: Faraz

Faraz — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 04:36:18 +0000

I am wondering , how you decide which one of the comments is spam. I mean, If it is a blog which scrapes off seo content and doesnt have adsense, then it is not spam? Even if the comment doesn't mean anything?

Or maybe, if it is a meaningful comment and links to a blog which contains adsense , then will it still be called spam.

Anyways, I think akismet plugin is the best for this. I have found quite a few worthless ads as comments, which I rejected as soon as I saw them.

By: Roger Hamilton

Roger Hamilton — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:12:38 +0000

Spams are pretty irritating at times. This is an interesting post. Thanks for sharing. Hope to see your new updates soon.

By: The Internet Marketing Idea guy

The Internet Marketing Idea guy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:27:42 +0000

Hi,
I was just wondering… Maybe he was actually innocent about it?

But it’s amazing to think that some folks invest their time to add ‘useless’ comments on great blogs for the purpose of SEO…

Also one thing you could consider is called reKapcha (?) I believe. Looked great to use to stop comment spam.

Found their link:
http://recaptcha.net/plugins/wordpress/

Thanks :)

Martin

By: Beecher Bowers

Beecher Bowers — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 14:28:05 +0000

That’s a riot. I have a tech website, but I haven’t had the issue with comment spam yet. I’ve found Akismet for Wordpress to work quite well. The false-positive rate is very low and it doesn’t let much junk through at all.

By: William Beutler

William Beutler — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:57:16 +0000

How much do you love the fact that the first trackback on this post is to an SEO blog scraping content? This one can’t be called spam, I don’t think — no Adsense — but it sure is pointless.

What I don’t love is that it was approved without my approval, so once again the latest version of WordPress fails me. A revamp of Blog P.I. is in the works, and I promise this will be one of the first things I deal with.