Comment Spam Fighting Technique

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

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!

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Comment Spam Filter Comes To Rescue Akismet

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!

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