About 5 hour ago I have installed a great plugin, Antispam Bee (can be found in WordPress plugins repository) to test this alternative to Akismet. Not that there was anything wrong with that plugin but I get quite a few questions on FREE alternative for business bloggers and I just had to test.

Results are stunning so far, to say the least:

Oh, Yeah! I said it!

Your eyes are not deceiving you because I do believe that Comment Spammers are directly encouraged by bloggers driven by a desperation to get activity on their blogs.

I have no plans to lay the blame here but instead encourage those just starting with the wonderful form of online publishing that blogging has become to stay strong and resist the urge to approve those few first comments on your new, shiny blog.

Do you get a lot of comment Spam? Are all the measures you take only partially help you reduce the number of Spam Comments that you have to moderate? Surprisingly…

It Could Be Your Own Fault!

I know, I know… you don’t create the spam comments and you are doing your best to protect your blog from them and yet, every morning your Comment Moderation queue is waiting for action.

But lets consider some of the reasons people comment on your blog and how YOU can be at fault for what you consider to be a SPAM!

Commenting on blogs that provide benefits of DoFollow is one of the best ways to build incoming links. It give you deep content linking, especially when done on blogs with CommentLuv enabled and it passes Page Rank to help you build authority of your own blog.

It is one strategy I personally use and highly recommended in several posts. Problem I have is when people who comment fail to read comment guidelines and leave SPAM and what is even worse…

When Marketers I Personally Respect Outsource The Spamming Process!

Be it intentionally or not is secondary to the conversation as I still have to deal with that spam and here is latest example…

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!

KeywordLuv is very useful plugin for your WordPress blog and for the longest time I have been using it to share link love to the commenters on my blog. I appreciate each and every one who took advantage of the feature and contributed to the content on my blog!

And yes, valid comments I consider a valuable content and love rewarding people for it! Link love is one of the easiest ways to reward.