Comments on: What Makes A WordPress Comment Spam

By: Aer conditionat

Aer conditionat — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:52:03 +0000

Akismet is the best anti spam !

By: HouseBulb

HouseBulb — Tue, 18 May 2010 03:48:56 +0000

I’ve just enabled DoFollow on my blog. I’ve the time right now to sift through the junk in search of a few good posts. I find it sad that there are more spam posts than legitimate ones.

By: Pa Medical Coverage

Pa Medical Coverage — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:03:34 +0000

As I may have posted before, my blog(s) get ridiculous amounts of foreign spam. Incoherent posts with just a bunch of words that make no sense.

Including, of course the usual “nice job” and What a great post. You are the best!”

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:07:48 +0000

Akismet takes care all my spam, i love this plugin.

By: Mucing

Mucing — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:13:24 +0000

And yet here is another example, just regurgitating what is stated in the post.. Why?

By: Lyle and Scott

Lyle and Scott — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:00:55 +0000

Well comment spam can really be annoying. It wouldn’t matter if they contribute to the topic but posting up links and absurd content is just plain annoying.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:58:15 +0000

Because WordPress is more popular than Blogger, and there are more high page rank WordPress blogs. So there are programs and scripts that target WordPress blogs for the spammers.

By: Stu

Stu — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:36:46 +0000

I recently made the move over from Blogger to WordPress, and have instantly noticed a massive increase in spam comments. 6 months on Blogger – 1 spam comment. One month on WordPress – over 60 spam comments already. For the life of me I have no idea why – traffic is the same so far, so it’s not like the site suddenly got insanely popular. Too bad though – I far prefer WordPress, so I guess I’ll just have to deal with it.

Would love to hear if anyone here has any idea of why this is? Reckon it’s purely down to not having Captcha on my WP comments? Can’t remember whether Blogger had it enabled by default…

By: Stress Management

Stress Management — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:46:04 +0000

I just had to comment on this one. I’ve often wondered how much of the comment – osphere in blogs is really motivated by people wanting backlinks to their sites. In training people on how to post on blogs to generate backlinks, I’ve always overemphasized that the main goal is add value to the discussion. If you can’t do that, then you need to move on. If you can do that, then it’s up to the site owner to judge whether or not to allow your comment to go through. There is no karmic exception for blog commenting – do unto other blogs as you would have other blogs do unto you….
And personally, I go back and forth on the whole keywords in the name field. Sometimes it seems spammy to me, sometimes I go with it, as I did here.

By: Earlobe repair Philadelphia

Earlobe repair Philadelphia — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:52:21 +0000

Well as long as there is relevance to the content, a comment is well appreciated. But for some who posts five comments with same nonsense words, then you know what to do with it.