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11 years ago

Is this a very very general comment like: "Great website! Thanks for the great info!"?
Probably spam, and you will be getting plenty of similar comments in no time. I would just save my time and ignore these comments.

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wolfe655 11 years ago

Just what I thought Thanks!
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canada94

11 years ago

You will get all sorts of spam coming through, you just have to monitor it, an make sure you moderate them before any comments 'go live'.

Hope this helps

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AlexGeorge

11 years ago

I get quite a lot of comments like this on my site, and it can be hard sometimes to tell whether it is spam or not. If it's coming from a totally unrelated site and doesn't mention anything about your post and seems too generic, chances are it's just spam.

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ragnartm

11 years ago

WordPress › Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin « WordPress Plugins to avoid getting spambots if you haven't installed it already. It's also really user friendly, just need to check a box to confirm being human.

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Fazal Mayar

11 years ago

It might be spam, get a anti spam plugin, its one of the most common spam comment.

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Randall Magwood

11 years ago

I've had (and still have) the same problem. Got so excessive that i had to turn comments off and new registrations off. Somehow the spam bots know how to infiltrate and spam the hell out of your blog everyday.

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jorgesil 11 years ago

One of my blogs are getting hundreds of comments a day,mostly spam.
As this is a nightmare to go through all the comments and check what's
real,what's spam, I just turned comments of.
That's the easy way I think.
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Ripster

11 years ago

It is spam, get Akismet and anything that is in the Spam section is spam. Also, manually approve posts. In WordPress, you will get a lot of spam after your site gets indexed.

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DeborahDera

11 years ago

Definitely spam. Another tell-tale sign is that those comments have a keyword where the person's name should go instead of an actual name; and then they try to link. They hope the keyword will get hyperlinked. I automatically spam those.

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I have not promoted this blog yet. I have a couple of pages and a couple of posts. I have been publishing as I go along. There is not much content but I have had the blog a couple of months and it has been indexed.

I just got a comment on a page that said this blog is intriguing thanks for the valuable information. The site that the link came from was an audio site from France and it is all in french. That site really has nothing to do with my site. I don't know if I should approve this comment or not. Is it just some other site trying to get a backlink. I am not sure what comments to approve. I am guessing not this one as the site it came from has nothing to do what what my site is about.

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cupcakemonster

11 years ago

You'll be bombarded with these spam comments in a short while. Sign up for Akismet - it's free - as soon as you can and spare yourself the time wasted.

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Laura Raisanen

11 years ago

Like others have recommended, Akismet is a good plugin for this. It seems to filter out the spam quite accurately, however, some legitimate comments still end up in the spam folder, so I just make sure I monitor it properly.

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kinyash

11 years ago

That is definitely spam. Moderate on comments before they are published.

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executed

11 years ago

Its obvious that you will not approve the comment. Once you approve the spam comment than you have to deal with more spam’s coming to your inbox. You can use Comment moderation option in Wordpress that permits you to forestall remarks from showing up on your site without your express approbation. Comment moderation is a very useful service in tending to Comment Spam, yet it has more general provisions moreover.

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DoubleOhDave

11 years ago

If you don't have the money to spend on Askimet, I HIGHLY recommend the free plugin: Antispam Bee. It is just pure awesomeness. A few settings to click to enable/disable and it works on autopilot wonderfully.

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DTGeorge

11 years ago

Originally Posted by DoubleOhDave

If you don't have the money to spend on Askimet, I HIGHLY recommend the free plugin: Antispam Bee. It is just pure awesomeness. A few settings to click to enable/disable and it works on autopilot wonderfully.

Akismet's free!

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TheInternet 11 years ago

Originally Posted by DTGeorge

Akismet's free!

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They let you use your WordPress.com key on your self-hosted blog for free and politely ask you to pay for it if you make money with it.
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- x3xsolxdierx3x 11 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by TheInternet
  
  They let you use your WordPress.com key on your self-hosted blog for free and politely ask you to pay for it if you make money with it.
  
  I loved how they did this.
  
  Shows that they have confidence in their product.
  
  They believe in their product so much that they are willing to die it into their livelihood, at least from what I can tell.
  
  Very interesting tactic, and I hope it's been effective for them.
  
  Akismet is one great plugin!
  
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11 years ago

Great thread! Thanks for the info!

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Moneymaker2012

11 years ago

Might be a spam or someone trying to get backlink, you can dissapprove comments you don't want to show up on your blog,

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wrcato2

11 years ago

Get Askimet.
Then set up a keyword blacklist here's how:

From the dashboard, go to settings, then discussion. scroll down and there are two boxes. the first box says:

When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be held in the moderation queue. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress”.

Here you set up keywords that you want wordpress to watch for and hold for moderation.

Now for the blacklist keyword area. The next box down is a box that says:

When a comment contains any of these words in its content, name, URL, e-mail, or IP, it will be marked as spam. One word or IP per line. It will match inside words, so “press” will match “WordPress”.

Now you need to find as many blacklist keywords as possible and place those words one per line.

Example:

spam word 1
Spam word 2
spam word 3

Tips: If you use gmail a great way to get more keywords is to look into your gmail accounts spam folder. Use notepad and copy and paste as many spam words as possible within 2 minutes.

Insert those words in your blacklist box and click save changes.

This should catch any comments that come in with those words and place them in your spam on your blog.

Be sure to go through your spam folder every week and make sure that real comments didn't get sent there.

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JohnMcCabe 11 years ago

As the others have said, odds are the comment is spam.

I get similar comments on a blog I have just a placeholder for. The only post is the default "Hello, World". I'm still trying to figure out what's so insightful and valuable about those two words.

Installing Akismet and Bad Behavior plugins pretty much eliminated the junk.
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- Shooting Star 11 years ago
  
  This comment is spam. Don't approve such comments.
  Use "Cookies for Comments" plugin for Wordpress sites to get rid of such comments. This plugin is recommended by Matt Cutts, Head of webspam team at Google and is highly effective.
  
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TheInternet

11 years ago

Akismet works:

10,243 total spam
250 total ham
37 missed spam
8 false positives
99.57% accuracy rate

That's 10,000+ spam comments I didn't have to deal with.

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Monja

11 years ago

Most probably it is just spam. Actually, I'm at a point where I delete all comments which are just too general and just say "great website" or "nice post" because most likely those are spam. Akismet can help you to prevent a lot of them

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sarah lee 11 years ago

Hi there,
On the first day of starting my blog, I had countless messages such as this, thankfully it's all sorted now, but I remember feeling the same way.
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TheInternet

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Monja

Most probably it is just spam. Actually, I'm at a point where I delete all comments which are just too general and just say "great website" or "nice post" because most likely those are spam. Akismet can help you to prevent a lot of them

I think WF would improve 99% if it used something like Akismet. It seems like half the posts in the above-the-fold forums are drive-bys.

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DeborahDera

11 years ago

I bet if you were to look closely at that spam comment the field where the person is supposed to put his/her name has a product keyword in it instead of a real name. It's just spam. Mark it as such and move on. I get dozens daily.

Originally Posted by wolfe655

I have not promoted this blog yet. I have a couple of pages and a couple of posts. I have been publishing as I go along. There is not much content but I have had the blog a couple of months and it has been indexed.

I just got a comment on a page that said this blog is intriguing thanks for the valuable information. The site that the link came from was an audio site from France and it is all in french. That site really has nothing to do with my site. I don't know if I should approve this comment or not. Is it just some other site trying to get a backlink. I am not sure what comments to approve. I am guessing not this one as the site it came from has nothing to do what what my site is about.

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wolfe655

11 years ago

Wow thanks everyone! I lost track of this post. I will read all the comments when I get home. My other sites been getting it too!

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dalegolden

11 years ago

Originally Posted by wolfe655

I have not promoted this blog yet. I have a couple of pages and a couple of posts. I have been publishing as I go along. There is not much content but I have had the blog a couple of months and it has been indexed.

I just got a comment on a page that said this blog is intriguing thanks for the valuable information. The site that the link came from was an audio site from France and it is all in french. That site really has nothing to do with my site. I don't know if I should approve this comment or not. Is it just some other site trying to get a backlink. I am not sure what comments to approve. I am guessing not this one as the site it came from has nothing to do what what my site is about.

It is a surefire spam comment. Because the source is irrelevant and also the comment have got nothing to do with your content. Just something generic with praises. Never approve this kind comments.