WordPress Discussion Settings Can Reduce Comment Spam

The trouble is moderating comments takes ages, but Akismet sometimes comes up with false positives. You can’t win!

Ste

It’s amazing all of the junk comments I get on my blog. 99% are from foreign countries with a bunch of long gibberish that doesn’t even make sense. And since it takes forever to wade through all of the comments, I usually just delete all of them.

There has to be a better way!

Ed

Since installing the KeywordLuv Plugin I have seen a bit of an increase in backlinks so very pleased about that. Couple of spam comments to deal with but I guess that was to be expected but i think this article will help me a lot.

Thanks for posting this.. You know,, I really having a hard time to prevent spam comments… Sometimes I just deleted it all. This will help me. thanks

Hi, this is a nice tactic to get this spammers out of your site. Black listing of a spammer ID or address will somehow make them afraid to make a spam again. This tactic I think is one of the best way to avoid spamming. Thanks for this tip and it is a big. Thanks again.

Comment Spam is really a problem. I have a wordpress blog that i use to work on themes. This blog not even has a own domain but i get spam comments every day. However, i have moderation turned on.

Setting up the blacklist helps the most, I’d say. If you put in the common offenders, like the blue pills, and body parts, you’re off to a good start.

In my opinion, this is a great idea. As we know, spammer always alive in this world. And they will not stop their job by spamming site. so, by this features, this will help reducing spam activities.

I can moderate all comments before they are displayed below my posts. WordPress has this function, because you are an administrator, you have the right to approve or delete an comment.

I think after installing Keyword Plug-gin we need Akimset Pluggin to control spams, Couple of spam comments becomes so easy to deal with and Akimset performs almost 99% best to our expectation.

I really having a hard time to prevent spam comments… Sometimes I just deleted it all. This will help me. thanks

@Free TomTom

I’ve found that the best way to deal with this is to use a whitelist as well, which I think is built into WordPress, if not there are definitely plug-ins for it. That way, regular commenters can post without needing your approval, and you can manually moderate and approve/whitelist/blacklist other comments as they come through.

Since I recently launched my site, I feel that I have to take what I can get in terms of comments. Save for explicitly commercial spam, I think that it would be better for me to have more comments.

I receive more than 50 spams in every post on my blog.I always turn on the moderation option to prevent from being getting spammed.
I simply delete comments.But this process is cumbersome.I think,i should blacklist the comments.Thanks.

I think this is part of the game.
The more visitors the more comment spam. But take it as is a necessary issue.
For me personally it is not an issue.

i think being able to control 99% of spam is pretty good, i mean that should be most of the trouble anyhow.

This is a nice tool to use however i believe it hurts the people that leave real and useful comments that want to get their names out their while sharing their knowledge

I was getting a ton of the foreign language gibberish, so I just shut comments off. Fixed it… I guess.

Comment spam is inevitable for blogs. The best weapon is to have an efficient plugin and like what you said, lots of common sense. For dofollow blogs however, there are those commentators that are just paid to comment on blogs in place of backlinks and most of the time are coined and thoughtless. I even saw some commentators above who have tried to make my blog as a link farm but got hit in the end when I implemented a comment policy and removed the Keywordluv plugin.

I wasn’t aware there were settings for this, I really haven’t explored wordpress all that much, aside from plug-ins. Luckily for me, my blog is related to the flash games industry, particularly from a developers point of view, so I don’t really have to deal with too much traffic, especially unrelated. I’ll definitely keep the above in mind though in case my blog gets targeted by PR craving SEO madmen haha.

I’ve always found monitoring blog comments as tedious and annoying…but inevitable. I had never heard of the content backlist before this post, so I will look into that. Is there a test to see if the poster has ever been to your site before?

Comment Spam is really a problem. I have a wordpress blog that i use to work on themes. This blog not even has a own domain but i get spam comments every day. However, i have moderation turned on.

My blog has millions of nonsense comments, i think they just want to post their sites, and maybe the comments are sensible, but finally i find they are actually spams. Maybe i will shut comments to prevent spam.

On one of my blogs I get like 30+ comments from Russia every day. Spam is just extremely annoying. But like Mathdelane said before, it’s a pretty much an inevitable problem. I’m always looking for better solutions to handle spam, though.

Deleting blog spams wasted me a lot of time..and the spam bot is really nettlesome.

Usually the spammers on my WordPress blog are so bad, they don’t even try to disguise their posts. I guess they are using some bot software, but the success rate has to be pretty low.

I know my girlfriend got setup with a WordPress blog, and got all excited and said “Look, someone said thanks for post, and I will be checking your blog more often,” but I had to crush her and tell her it was a spam-bot.

Spams are truly irritating. But there are cases when what appears to be scams are not really spams at all. Sometimes we have to read the message in order to determine whether it is a scam or not…

spamming is one of the bed thing in whole web. I also really too much frustrated from spam comments on my blog. But the tips you provide in this post really help me to far my blog from spammers. thanks for the info

Well, I think that tip is only possible if you get few visitors on your blog. Otherwise, it would be just a waste of time checking all comments. But, I’ve seen that some blog owners manage to get sensible comments to almost all of their posts.

Great tips, just wanted to say that the single best tool for eliminating spam comments, in my opinion, has been akismet. It’s really fantastic; those of you with new sites should definitely check it out!

Jeff  Replied:
October 19th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

Akismet is a good start and there are other plugins as well. I have tried numerous other plugins but have found Akismet and comment moderation to be my best solution.

Comment Spam is really a problem. I have a wordpress blog that i use to work on themes. This blog not even has a own domain but i get spam comments every day. However, i have moderation turned on. Some modules helps me to reduce spam like Akismet and NO FOLLOW links on comments + no anchors in nick names!

I hate akismet. That stupid plugin marks over %90 comments on my site as spam. Just use captcha and disable stupid akismet. It is much easy to moderate

Honestly i didn’t know about this. Thanks for the great post. I will try this new settings.

Seems to work for me.

I am glad that you have posted a brilliant post..it is indeed very amazing and i am sure that many people will surely like it. Spam is great problem faced by many people and i am sure that many people will definitely like it. It is indeed awesome and many people would be benefited from it.

spam is a nuisance and i really like this feature of wp but then again its an endless problem, spam can not be eliminated entirely.

Very useful tips. This will also save time since you don’t have to manually delete the spammy comments.

Even if new tools or plugins are upgrading for spamming but spammers as well upgraded.

On my blog, I always had the option that I must approve all comments, letting Akismet and BadBehavior filter out the bad ones. I would also daily check the Akismet filters to see if it had any false positives and make the correct changes.

While being “dofollow” will most likely increase your spam comment count, nofollow will bring the same, so if you setup a blog it’s more than likely to end up getting spam comments regardless of it’s attribute status for links.

I do not know so much to avoid spam on my blogs and so your post was quite informative for me. Till now I do not have so much problems with spam but I guess that is because of my low blog PRs. When they will rise (I hope so ) and now I am prepared for it with your help. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.

Very useful post. I prefered manual moderation, but it takes too much time…

I wasn’t aware there were settings for this at first, but after configuring it i feel really relaxed, it really works, to me, this settings really minus the spam comments, and tools like Askimet delete them deeply.

I prefer to moderate my comments manually as well, but that may be because I don’t really get that many comments. Blacklisting the IPs is a good idea but my understanding is that most spam comes from different IPs since it’s usually different people.

Very useful information. I get tons of spam on my blog, this should help out a lot!

Comment Spam is really a problem. I have a wordpress blog that I use to work on themes. This blog not even has a own domain but somehow get spam comments every day. However, I have moderation turned on but that is not enough to avoid it.

I started a blog when I studied abroad in Japan for a year, to keep my family and friends aware of what I was doing. After I got home, I stopped touching it. For literally YEARS since, I have had comment spam show up sporadically. It’s really nonsensical.

This is a very informative post. I got many spam comments on my blog. Manually delete those comments makes me crazy.

Uhh, for me that would be double spam, besides filling up my wp page it would also fill my inbox :S i certainly would not like that, but instead just go to my account and manually mark the comments as spam…

Spam in blogs is a form of spamdexing. It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guest books, or other publicly accessible online discussion boards. Any web application that accepts and displays hyperlinks submitted by visitors may be a target.

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