Spam comments on your blog

14 years ago

Originally Posted by william1872

The more my new blog grows the more spam comments I'm getting through in an attempt to backlink...

I have considered switching 'nofollow' on however I don't think that's fair to the majority who leave constructive comments on any blog post I do, how does everyone handle spam comments? I stick them right in the spam folder...

Same here!

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Willie Murray

14 years ago

I feel real sorry for the folk that are paying for the backlinks, to date I've not had one spam attempt relevant to the niche I'm in, and if I'm right it needs to be relevant for a quality backlink?

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Michael Shook

14 years ago

Originally Posted by william1872

I feel real sorry for the folk that are paying for the backlinks, to date I've not had one spam attempt relevant to the niche I'm in, and if I'm right it needs to be relevant for a quality backlink?

Then you are a lot nicer than I am. I have no sympathy for them at all.

I'm not interested in going to war or anything, I just install SI Captcha and seems to help with most of them. I get a fair amount of trackback spam, but I just delete. I had one occasion where I wrote to the site on whose behalf the TB spam had been posted and complained.

I wound up with a nice affiliate relationship with the owner of the site who actaully has good products.

I did explain how that kind of spam could not only damage his site reputation but was at great odds to the kind of product he was selling. Whatever he told his SEO firm, i did not get any more tb spams from his site.

There are always going to be people who think the internet is there for them to take advantage of without giving anything back in return. I don't worry so much about that anymore becasue it always gets evened out in the end (in my experience anyway)

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Sire

14 years ago

What you need to do is to install anti spam plugins. The two I use are GASP and akismet. GASP stops spam from bots and akismet stops most human spam.

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Vikby

14 years ago

I'm using Disqus - it is very powerful against spam. Up to 90% of spam comments get unapproved automatically.

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Leveragist

14 years ago

I had the same issue and just installed the SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam plugin for WordPress a few days ago. No spam's come through yet. Requiring a CAPTCHA to post a comment definitely helped in my case.

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celente

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Leveragist

I had the same issue and just installed the SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam plugin for WordPress a few days ago. No spam's come through yet. Requiring a CAPTCHA to post a comment definitely helped in my case.

I actually ended up so back over at my blog, I had to turn the comments all together. Not good at all. Especailly for those regular visitors to my blog.

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x3xsolxdierx3x 14 years ago

Does anyone here ever feel like they just target certain blog posts? I have 1 or 2 blog posts that receive most of the spam comments.....

A few weeks ago, I simply deleted one post and didn't have problems again
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fluffythewondercat

14 years ago

You could install akismet but it's no longer free if you have ads on your blog. $5 month? No thanks!

You can build a list of words in the Discussion page of your dashboard -- that's what I do. The offenders keep trying to spam for the same keywords, just add a few to the list every day and those comments are blocked. I never see them.

I like to clean out what's left manually because occasionally there's a really boneheaded juxtaposition of spam with article, so I get to mock them mercilessly (removing their cherished links first, of course).

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Ntech25

14 years ago

I have this same issue. Some of my blogs have over 7000 pending comments and I don't have a feature to delete all but spam just keeps building up.

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thecrazycub

14 years ago

one question...

I have the same issue.. I get like a hundred spam comments in a week. But they only list in the site if I approve them. I use wordpress.

What I want to know is will these spam posts take the crawlers out of my site even if I am not approving them? Should I remove them perriodically or just approve the legit ones?

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micksss

14 years ago

If the comments aren't approved then they aren't visible to crawlers. If you are looking for a way to delete all pending comments check out this WP plugin: WordPress › Delete Pending Comments « WordPress Plugins

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WhamSoft 14 years ago

Hi,

Comment spam is a real issue on wordpress & other blogs and I wish people would just take the time to read the article and leave a relevant comment, I think most website owners would be happy to approve such a comment.

Blatant spam is just a waste of time because it won't "stick" any place, I don't know why they even bother.

I use two plugins (WP Spamfree & Si Captcha antispam) on my sites and these combined seem to stop most comment spam.

Some sites do seem to attract more spam than others, pretty much any IM related site will attract many spammers.

It's a never ending war.

Lee
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- RevSEO 14 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by WhamSoft
  
  Hi,
  
  Blatant spam is just a waste of time because it won't "stick" any place, I don't know why they even bother.
  
  Lee
  
  Unfortunately there are blogs in which don't set comments to manual review or go into any moderation. Therefore the links will post on some blogs, thus the more spam that someone does on the net, the better the chance that someone finds these unmoderated blogs.
  
  Thats the big problem
  
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JamesGw

14 years ago

I get a lot of spam sign ups on a forum I run. That's really annoying. Never had any issues with my blogs though.

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Claire Sharp

14 years ago

We have the same issue.... i have been experiencing this kind of problem since i started blogging. I hope i will a way to solve this problem.

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Matthew Loop

14 years ago

I use the Akismet plugin for Wordpress to get rid of the spam...

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retsek

14 years ago

I use Akismet.

but from time to time, i browse through the long lists of spam and find posts that are somewhat relevant to the topic and also have a avatar of the comment. I then edit out the links, leave their name and bamm..I have a nice discussion going. Legitimate visitors usually start chiming in.

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Willie Murray

14 years ago

My fear with anti-spam plugins is binning relevant comments, I do like the sound of GASP though as this will bin most of the spam from known bots..

I have built a list of known words up but that can be a never ending task! Seems a big issue with blogs spam comments, rather than turn commenting off completely you should think about making all comments 'nofollow' - renders the blog commenting useless to the spammers then.

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Onora Oz

14 years ago

I'm not a fan of this method but I disabled pingbacks and trackbacks on most of my WP sites. I was feeling like these were inviting all the spam. And, it worked.
WP -reCAPTCha helps too.
People recommend Facebook Comment, and I think it would help but I believe most of my visitors/buyers wouldn't like it because they'd prefer remain anonymous and masked. (You know how it is in some niches/markets).

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Willie Murray

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Onora Oz

I'm not a fan of this method but I disabled pingbacks and trackbacks on most of my WP sites. I was feeling like these were inviting all the spam. And, it worked.
WP -reCAPTCha helps too.
People recommend Facebook Comment, and I think it would help but I believe most of my visitors/buyers wouldn't like it because they'd prefer remain anonymous and masked. (You know how it is in some niches/markets).

I never even thought of disabling pingbacks and tracebacks, I must look into that, does it not affect your content getting out there on the web?

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Michael Shook

14 years ago

Originally Posted by william1872

I never even thought of disabling pingbacks and tracebacks, I must look into that, does it not affect your content getting out there on the web?

Thanks for everyones comments to

Its a setting in discussion or reading (I think) you can disable them both, but it does prevent some interaction outside of your blog itself. Depending on how much of this particular spam you are getting, it might be more worth it to leave them enabled.

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Willie Murray

14 years ago

Originally Posted by JMichaelZ

Its a setting in discussion or reading (I think) you can disable them both, but it does prevent some interaction outside of your blog itself. Depending on how much of this particular spam you are getting, it might be more worth it to leave them enabled.

Thanks I'll look into those settings just now

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chewmike

14 years ago

Try using anti-spam plugin. I use Aksimet plugin.

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RobertBayes

14 years ago

For my blogs, simply having all comments moderated works perfectly. I have a ton of spam comments, but it's easy enough to browse through them and publish the few real comments. And Askimet works fine for me.

Robert Bayes

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swiftimpulse

14 years ago

I've been getting spam comments on my blog and it's really annoying. I would actually approve the comments if they were at least spelled correctly. Literally 50 comments, all have at least 1 word misspelled which ruins the whole comment. If the spammers are too lazy to even spell correctly then I don't see why they should get their comment posted anywhere.

If it at least sounds plausible/spelt correctly then I don't mind adding it, regardless if it's a backlink for them or not.

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Willie Murray

14 years ago

Originally Posted by swiftimpulse

I've been getting spam comments on my blog and it's really annoying. I would actually approve the comments if they were at least spelled correctly. Literally 50 comments, all have at least 1 word misspelled which ruins the whole comment. If the spammers are too lazy to even spell correctly then I don't see why they should get their comment posted anywhere.

If it at least sounds plausible/spelt correctly then I don't mind adding it, regardless if it's a backlink for them or not.

The GASP plugin seems to be working a treat, spam comments not there at the moment...

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johnapo

14 years ago

CAPTCHA is a very good solution to this problem, however it makes comments unfriendly for the visitors that want to participate.

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Kezz

14 years ago

Another thing you can do is install the PC Robots.txt plugin.

It blocks a bucketload of known spambots from viewing your site.

I've found it to be excellent: WordPress › PC Robots.txt « WordPress Plugins

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Willie Murray

14 years ago

Originally Posted by Kezz

Another thing you can do is install the PC Robots.txt plugin.

It blocks a bucketload of known spambots from viewing your site.

I've found it to be excellent: WordPress › PC Robots.txt « WordPress Plugins

Another plugin to check out, thanks Kezz

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Giggle

14 years ago

i delete 99% comments on my blog

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richardgarciaoutsourcing

14 years ago

As mentioned above, I agree that you have to install anti spam plug ins. I think It can help you with your problem. =) just try.

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Michael Oksa

14 years ago

LOL

Spam isn't a problem.

Just weed through all of the comments and delete the spam. Takes half a second and you're done.

Right?

(And, yes, there really are people who think this way.)

~Michael

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Troy_Phillips

14 years ago

Change the spam comments around and link them to your other sites

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KateHunter 14 years ago

Originally Posted by Troy_Phillips

Change the spam comments around and link them to your other sites

Ha ha good one! Yeah I do that. Wish I had a plugin to automate that for me!
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- mydream247 14 years ago
  
  I use GASP for all my blogs, works well since most spam comments are botts, and I also moderate and manually approve all comments, time consuming, but worth it to keep the quality for my blogs.
  
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jushuaburnham

14 years ago

I am using akismet for my wordpress blog screening out all comments drop by on my site.

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fernandoraymundo

14 years ago

I am manually selecting each comments to see what's relevant to my blog and deleting those spam comments. some spammers are persistent but as soon as they feel that their links are not going in they will eventually stop and also to be fair with those comments that are relevant and helpful in my blog.

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pmbrent

14 years ago

You should also turn on the feature that your comments are moderated, so you actually have to approve the comments before they post to your blog.

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JBrooks

14 years ago

you'll greatly reduce the number of spam comments by setting up CAPTCHA and the few that do slip through you can delete easy enough.

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retsek 14 years ago

Originally Posted by dealme

you'll greatly reduce the number of spam comments by setting up CAPTCHA and the few that do slip through you can delete easy enough.

Captcha's are a joke and an inconvenience for the end user at best.
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Targeted Traffic

14 years ago

There are programs that can help you block SPAM comments such as Akismet and Disqus (pronounced discuss).

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DIGITALCHAMELEON

14 years ago

In my case I personally read and evaluate comments come in to my site and eventually welcome to those useful comments and reject spammy and irrelevant comments.

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