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How do I know whether I am receiving spam from my blog

by wilsonljx
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I have been receiving duplicate comments at my wordpress blog and is it a spam?How do i avoid duplicates?Is there any plugins that can prevent this?
#blog #receiving #spam
  • Profile picture of the author faqu1337
    Originally Posted by wilsonljx View Post

    I have been receiving duplicate comments at my wordpress blog and is it a spam?How do i avoid duplicates?Is there any plugins that can prevent this?
    Yes, sounds like spam. I'm using the free WP plugin called "WP-reCaptcha" and it helped.
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  • Profile picture of the author ChristineCobb
    If you get an account at Wordpress.com, you can get an activation key for Akismet which is a spam filter which comes with a self hosted installation of WordPress. If your site is a personal site, there is no charge for Akismet.
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  • Profile picture of the author TheInternet
    The first thing I do when I'm not sure about a comment is Google part of the text. Spammers don't usually stop at one blog. I found the text of one comment in my spam queue on over 200k blogs.

    One popular tactic of spammers is to take an old comment in a thread and repost it. Copy it and Control + F in your browser on the post to search for it in the comment thread.
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  • Profile picture of the author art72
    I agree, install the Askimet plugin, as chriscobb states above remember to set it as 'personal' and adjust the 'payment slider' to $0. You may also want to make sure you manually approve comments, I find that on sites where I didn't moderate comments, and manually approve them, spammers will flood your comments with their nonsense.

    All the Best,

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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Originally Posted by art72 View Post

      I agree, install the Askimet plugin, as chriscobb states above remember to set it as 'personal' and adjust the 'payment slider' to $0. You may also want to make sure you manually approve comments, I find that on sites where I didn't moderate comments, and manually approve them, spammers will flood your comments with their nonsense.

      All the Best,

      Art
      Adding to this, set a high standard of quality for blog comments and delete anything that does not meet the standard.

      Software can help you keep the robots out, but it won't stop the manual variety. If the manual spammer sees nothing but high-quality, relevant comments, they'll likely see it as too much work and move on. If they try it anyway, see my first paragraph...
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