Getting Heaps of WP Comment Spam

by goindeep

Posted: 11 years ago 10 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Im not the best at WP so thought I would ask here.

Im getting heaps of comment spam on my site, any way to easily stop this?

I dont want to implement any CAPTCHA that takes too long or is too annoying.

I also notice that although I mark the messages as spam WP is not remembering some of them.

Any suggestions?

Here is the blog if anyone wants to take a look:

OZ Greyhound Sales Blog | OZ Greyhound Sales Blog

#comment #heaps #spam

Warrior X 11 years ago

First thing, do you have Akismet installed and activated?
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- kindsvater 11 years ago
  
  Try using the 3 free plugins I mention in this post:
  
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  Using all of them I rarely get any spam.
  
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- goindeep 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Warrior X
  
  First thing, do you have Akismet installed and activated?
  
  Shows how little I know, that was sitting in my plugins area awaiting activation.
  
  Thanks for that, ill activate now!
  
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  RockNRolla 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by goindeep
  
  Shows how little I know, that was sitting in my plugins area awaiting activation.
  
  Thanks for that, ill activate now!
  
  This will make a huge difference.
  
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  goindeep 11 years ago
  
  Have to pay for that service I just noticed.
  
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  gottahave 11 years ago
  
  When I was receiving hundreds of comment spam, I added a "captcha" plugin and the spam reduced dramatically as most of the spam was coming from bots.
  
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  l23bc 11 years ago
  
  get the "are you a human" app on wordpress....its user friendly it lets them play games to prove there human for example pack your suitcase game...very addictive also even from a webmaster and less going to annoy your target audience the "say type h8jgfg bim8hb" all the time
  
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ldiaz117 11 years ago

Disable comments for a bit
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CyberAlien 11 years ago

Originally Posted by goindeep

I also notice that although I mark the messages as spam WP is not remembering some of them.

Spammers are constantly changing their IPs, emails, names, messages, etc. so that doesn't normally work.
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WillR 11 years ago

Originally Posted by goindeep

I dont want to implement any CAPTCHA that takes too long or is too annoying.

That's exactly what you want -- something that will annoy spammers and make them go elsewhere. Those genuine people who really want to comment on your blog are not going to be turned away by having to enter 5 characters.

I use captcha as well as other plugins such as Akismet and Bad behavior plugin. I don't get any spam.
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