I have to apologize to my regular RSS readers but unfortunately I had to switch my RSS Feed to show only summary. In last couple weeks I had to deal with more content thieves than I personally like and even though I have taken a legal action against couple – its hard to deal with those based in China or other countries non compliant with our laws and perhaps a basic morality.

Process of dealing with those idiots is simply too time consuming so the next best thing was to limit amount they can steal…

Today I attempted to use Twitter Search tool only to discover that Spammers managed to overrun it with Spam based on trending topics. I don’t like to be a doom and gloom but it doesn’t look good for twitter ability to control it.

Basically tool became unusable!

And here is what I mean…

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!

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!