Comment Spam on WordPress blogs is a HUGE issue, especially once your blog gets some momentum and ranking, like it or not but it is a fact of our daily life as bloggers. I have personally battled comment spam problem and described it on my blog several times.

My current solution – Intense Debate plugin implementation seem to work fairly well but it seem to have a few drawbacks, one of the more unpleasant one – it seem to auto-delete some comments without me EVER seeing them. It uses Akismet to do comment spam filtering and obviously uses its database to determine what has to be deleted, so anyone unable to comment on my blog – I recommend you check Akismet for being blacklisted.

On my part – I promise that I NEVER delete comments that provided on this blog, as long as they follow Commenting Guidelines I provide right below comment form, be it through Intense Debate or regular WP Comment Form provided for browsers with javascript disabled.  But here are some stats to help you understand the extend of the problem…

Comment Spam when looked from slightly different perspective can be an indicator of your blog popularity! So I guess we all should rejoice when our SPAM queue filled with dozens of comments from spam-bots. Luckily that is easily killed by simply taking advantage of the options provided by Akismet. But what do you do with Manually Submitted Comment Spam?

In this post I want to share strategy I use for last 2.5 month and found to be very effective – just see the decline of SPAM in the image below:

Akismet stats for comment spam

So how do I manage to cut in a half amount of SPAM that even gets into my queue? read on to learn!

Fighting Comment Spam on a WordPress blog is a never ending battle. Since I provide DoFollow options and use 2 plugins that reward commenters even more: CommentLuv and KeywrodLuv – I get a LOT of comment spam. Ever since I have switched from Spam Karma 2 to Akismet I’ve been testing multiple plugins that will assist me with this work and minimize the load.

Well, looks like I have just found a wining combination!