My blog is powered by WordPress, but even with the comment moderation features I still have to deal with a lot of spam. Since I began writing here six months ago, I’ve had to sift through several thousand comments about various undesirable topics. What’s worse is that I was doing it all manually. I’ve just installed a plug-in from Akismet and thus far this seems to have eliminated the problem. All my spam comments are now automatically removed before I get to them. I’d recommend this installation for anyone using a WordPress blog.

There is another plug-in, Bed Behavior, but at the moment I’m happy with Akismet and have not installed it yet.

Comment spam is an enormous problem within the blogging community. It makes blogs look dated, unprofessional, and just plain ridiculous. There are growing numbers of high profile blogs that are all but ruined by comment spam. How do you think it looks if you go to someone’s blog and find 300 comments about, well, I don’t want this coming up in search engines so use your imagination?

I hate spam, although when I was younger I didn’t mind spiced ham.

Techno' tags: Comment spam, Blogging, WordPress