Q: how to stop ENDLESS spammers leaving comments on my blog?

13 years ago

Do you use Akismet? If not, enable it immediately.
There are other spam protection plugins for WP as well! Do a search in the WP plugins section and try a few.

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Richard Van

13 years ago

Originally Posted by MandLoys

Do you use Akismet? If not, enable it immediately.
There are other spam protection plugins for WP as well! Do a search in the WP plugins section and try a few.

This ^^^

Also and there's no point doing this with bots but if you know a spammer is real, I tend to make their comment a really glowing testimonial to my site and change the link/s to one of my other sites.

That way they can contribute to my sites and when they come back they realise there's no point spamming my sites.

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Watchman220

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

This ^^^

Also and there's no point doing this with bots but if you know a spammer is real, I tend to make their comment a really glowing testimonial to my site and change the link/s to one of my other sites.

That way they can contribute to my sites and when they come back they realise there's no point spamming my sites.

Oh I love that! I was wondering how I could turn that around on those spammy jerkfaces.

I also took the time one day to write an email to each one that told them if they were really looking for traffic they could visit... (my specific web page of tools). Anything to create traffic to my site that is not a total waste.

Thanks for the tip Richard Van!

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Damielle

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Richard Van

This ^^^

Also and there's no point doing this with bots but if you know a spammer is real, I tend to make their comment a really glowing testimonial to my site and change the link/s to one of my other sites.

That way they can contribute to my sites and when they come back they realise there's no point spamming my sites.

Never thought of this, kinda brilliant...

Akismet is also worth a try

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Coby 13 years ago

Originally Posted by MandLoys

Do you use Akismet? If not, enable it immediately.
There are other spam protection plugins for WP as well! Do a search in the WP plugins section and try a few.

Yup - this is the one you need Alex

It will make your life so much easier

It finds the spam and the REAL comments and divides them and you simply click one button to delete all the spam

Askimet is awesome!
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Tomos Wyn

13 years ago

Have you thought about installing some kind of spam-software like askimet?

Or maybe adding some form of captcha to the comment form to try and reduce the number of spam comments?

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alex.jeffreys

13 years ago

I hate captcha forms ... so won't go down that route on my blogs ... but thanks for the input about askimet

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Karen Barr

13 years ago

Originally Posted by alex.jeffreys

I hate captcha forms ... so won't go down that route on my blogs ... but thanks for the input about askimet

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Well which do you hate more? Captcha or spammers?

I hate Captcha too, but when it got to the point where I was deleting HUNDREDS of spam comments every night, I put it in. Haven't had spam since.

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alex.jeffreys

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Karen Barr

Well which do you hate more? Captcha or spammers?

I hate Captcha too, but when it got to the point where I was deleting HUNDREDS of spam comments every night, I put it in. Haven't had spam since.

I hate BOTH ...

... but from here i think i will just use FB with this new blog
and that should stop the spam.

I don't wanna ask my readers to use Captcha.

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AksGame

13 years ago

hi

you can use akismet which do not add captha and automatically detects bot and ban them from posting

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TheZafraGroup

13 years ago

Well Akismet is good. You can also try Growmap Anti Spambot, SI Captcha Anti-Spam, Bad behavior and WP-reCaptch. Akismet is a paid plugin but the ones I mentioned are free. I use Growmap. It doesn't totally stop spam but spam happens very rarely now. You definitely need to stop spam. It takes a up a lot of bandwidth. Can slow your site down and it makes it look unattractive. Anyways hope this helped out.

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SteveJohnson 13 years ago

Originally Posted by TheZafraGroup

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Akismet is a paid plugin...
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It is NOT a 'paid plugin'. There are differing levels of service, one is free.

How does this stuff make it into the wild?:confused:
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- fluffythewondercat 13 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by SteveJohnson
  
  It is NOT a 'paid plugin'. There are differing levels of service, one is free.
  
  How does this stuff make it into the wild?:confused:
  
  I don't know, maybe they read the Akismet page on Wordpress.org?
  
  Akismet API keys are free for personal blogs, with paid subscriptions available for businesses and commercial sites.
  
  "Free" with a suggested contribution of $36.00 a year, that is.
  
  If you have ads on your blog, you're commercial, and Akismet wants $5/month from you.
  
  I don't use Akismet. It's not worth $60 a year to me. I deal with spam by hand and use the Comment Blacklist under Settings > Discussion.
  
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Michael Reese

13 years ago

Originally Posted by TheZafraGroup

Well Akismet is good. You can also try Growmap Anti Spambot, SI Captcha Anti-Spam, Bad behavior and WP-reCaptch. Akismet is a paid plugin but the ones I mentioned are free. I use Growmap. It doesn't totally stop spam but spam happens very rarely now. You definitely need to stop spam. It takes a up a lot of bandwidth. Can slow your site down and it makes it look unattractive. Anyways hope this helped out.

I have tried various plugins..but all do not work that well

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ChristineCobb

13 years ago

Definitely install a spam filter like Akismet. But you might also install Bad Behavior and turn it on for awhile to see if it makes a difference. It can sometimes keep out people in error so I usually don't have it running all the time.

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Jerome15

13 years ago

i had to much spammers before but i put on captcha though there are still but not too much anymore

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Kerryrus

13 years ago

Hi Alex.

There's a cool little plugin that I use on my blog called growmap anti spambot plugin

Kerry

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sbucciarel

Banned 13 years ago

Originally Posted by alex.jeffreys

but my recent blog seems to be a TARGET for spammers and they are leaving there crappy comments by the HUNDREDS.

In Settings > Discussion >
I check everything except Break comments into pages with ....

In addition, I use WP SpamFree plugin and I rarely get a spam comment. If you actually do want comments, just not spam comments, you may not want to make users login to leave a comment, but that pretty effectively eliminates most spam.

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umrbd

13 years ago

I am using GASP plugin in the wordpress blogs and didn't get any spam from the bots. Akismet is paid so I don't think small bloggers will prefer to use it. GASP plug in is working well for me

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lutherlars

13 years ago

Akismet is amazing. I love it.

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jwmann2

13 years ago

Captcha is the only way my friend. I get no spam on my comment forms. You can thank spammers for having to fill out captchas all the time. There are plenty of captchas plugins. PM me if you need some help.

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savvybizbuilder

13 years ago

Review some different plugins that really helps. But I used Akismet for my blog.

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browie

13 years ago

I would suggest using Facebook comments on your blogs that can help.

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alex.jeffreys 13 years ago

Originally Posted by browie

I would suggest using Facebook comments on your blogs that can help.

yes that is what i think i will do from here onwards with the new Internet Documenary blog ...
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mekap04

13 years ago

I use growmap antispam plugin and I also strip live urls from comments section for those who want to drop tons of links. You could always just write a quick comment policy which can help deter non-bot comment spammers.

E.g Don't waste your time commenting if you are a spammer because your comment will never go live.... lame example but you get my point.

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gregorydrake1

13 years ago

I know it's gotta suck, but every program, or software I see come out on clickbank is teaching, or automating spamming to get ranking in the search engines...

Alot of those marketers have no choice especially because there is no more adwords traffic...

Have you tried a different platform to share your information on?

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pacelattin

13 years ago

It not only sucks but could get a marketer in trouble:
- CAN-SPAM now applies to message boards and social networks according to the courts.
- T&C might prohibit spamming of a site, what if you are violating that? That's a crime according to some rulings.

Originally Posted by gregorydrake1

I know it's gotta suck, but every program, or software I see come out on clickbank is teaching, or automating spamming to get ranking in the search engines...

Alot of those marketers have no choice especially because there is no more adwords traffic...

Have you tried a different platform to share your information on?

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spamfighter 13 years ago

If you are still looking for an AntiSpam Plugin for your website, you could give "SpamTrawler" a try.

I am not sure if it is ok to leave links here, so I suggest search it in google.
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Hans123

13 years ago

I used to play around with dozens of free scripts and WP Plug-ins like Akismet, Badbehavior, etc. etc. I wasted months researching the subject as it was a major obstacle to my online ventures

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Quirpo

13 years ago

If you are using wordpress.....I would suggest that you make it so users cannot comment unless their registered. Then, check plug-ins.............there a bunch of different ones, and just give them a try (I suggest one -at-a-time, LOL) to see what works best for you. Everyone has their opinions......trust me, just try them out.

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clife

13 years ago

Some great suggestions here. You can also try bc Spamblock and WP Hashcash as well as ensuring a fully fleshed out list in your comment moderation blacklist.

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Guinness1759

13 years ago

Disable comments. Who has time to moderate them anyway?

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alex.jeffreys 13 years ago

Originally Posted by Guinness1759

Disable comments. Who has time to moderate them anyway?

are you joking me?

if i write a blog post and receive 1 or 1000 comments I read them ALL and reply if needs be,

that's my community and LOVE reading comments as much as making the $$$
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powerbuks

13 years ago

Their are lot of tools and plugins you can use to do that

Obviously the best of them is AkisMet but you can also look at some of the alternatives like

- SimpleCaptcha
- defensio
- WP-Spam-Hitman (plugin)
- Bad Behavior (plugin)
- AVH First Defense Against Spam (plugin)
- Akismet

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robbnel

13 years ago

wow, Alex I cannot believe you have to ask such a question, is it a ploy on your behalf , do you have an alterior motive?, I suspect so.

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alex.jeffreys 13 years ago

Originally Posted by robbnel

wow, Alex I cannot believe you have to ask such a question, is it a ploy on your behalf , do you have an alterior motive?, I suspect so.

what do you suspect Rob?

i had a serious question Rob

( AND THANK THE REST OF THE PEOPLE for there replies )

also thank you for your input ... interested to hear what you are suspect about?
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melleni

13 years ago

Spam Karma is a good plugn and its free I use it on most of my blogs seems to catch all spam.

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Kieran Gracie

13 years ago

Making registration a condition before any comment is the only way, in my experience. There is no way of knowing how many potential comments get deflected, though.

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mattflynn

13 years ago

Originally Posted by Kieran Gracie

Making registration a condition before any comment is the only way, in my experience. There is no way of knowing how many potential comments get deflected, though.

I do this on all my blogs now, after learning the hard way. It was either that or disallow comments completely.

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Alessandro Zamboni

13 years ago

Hi Alex, Akismet in this case will save your life blocking all the spam. It's free for personal use, and you can get an API Key straight from their website.

Another good option it's to implement Captcha for avoiding spammer with automatic tools to post thousands of blog comments automatically. Some newbies can see their posts as personal, but it's simple to catch them. And a captcha will help you to solve this fastly.

Also the Richard Van idea it's great, I used it many times. But there is also a WSO somewhere with a Wordpress plugin to do it automatically!

See you soon,
Alessandro Zamboni

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UMS

13 years ago

I resonantly came across a WP plugin called WP-Spaminator (I have no affiliation with the product or owner), which looks quite interesting.

According to the sales page, it changes any spam comments to include your links and your keywords and also pulls in fresh content via RSS feeds.

I haven't tried it myself, but I'm tempted to give it a go on one of my smaller sites.

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LikeRecord

13 years ago

You can install all the anti-spam plugins in the world, but it seems like you can never fully eliminate spam entirely. If you wan't my honest opinion there's no such thing as junk traffic or bad publicity - bring it on! Maybe you should hire a moderator to filter through it all. Also posting this question on this forum is stupid because 99% of the people here are spammers that are now hipped to your lack of spam security. Thanks for sharing another source to broaden the presence for our marketing campaigns.

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