WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Last night, just as always I decided to login into my blog and do some posting, thinking, editing … you know the normal stuff any blogger does just to be greeted by a note:

Error 403

We’re sorry but we could not fulfill your request…

Your Internet Protocol address is listed on a blacklist of addresses involved in malicious or illegal activity. See the listing below for more details on specific blacklists and removal procedures…

Being a “known spamer” who constantly engages in “illegal activities” using my blog I was mildly surprised and decided to investigate…

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Blog comments SPAM is perhaps one of the biggest annoyances for many bloggers. Not only do they not bring any value to the blog itself but also WASTE my time! And I will do whatever it takes to Fight the comments Spam while still sharing the link love with my commenter’s!

This Blog Is Mine! …Spammers Be Gone!

Truth to be told we all would better concentrate on creating our content, delivering information our readers expect from us instead of spending time on picking through through the comments and deleting spam. Lucky us there are great plugins that can help automate the process and while they are not perfect and have minuses, combining them creates an awesome effect of nearly 0 spam! This post will look in details of the proper implementation of these plugins…

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