Hi friends, since I ranked very well in the front page of Google search engine for many keywords. I started to get lots of spam comments in this blog. I was getting around 5 – 20 spam comments daily and sometimes more. Although the comments in this blog are moderated but still it’s frustrating to see the spam comments. These kind of spam comments if get published in your blog, it can affect your blog a lot because the spam comments contains a lot of unrelated links like thousands of links to sites that are totally not related. Sometimes, in a single spam comment you will see around 10 – 100 links inserted. Now you know what they are?
So is there any way to prevent spam comments getting on the blog?
Yeah actually there are lots of ways to prevent spam comments on the blog. I will just discuss the one that I recently implemented on my blog and the spam comment totally got vanished. This blog is a wordpress blog so the methods I am going to discuss will be implemented for the wordpress blog only. As we know that spam commenting are actually not done by people most of the time. It’s done by software or some kind of bots that are designs for such spam commenting. They just target the blog and start commenting repetitive spam comments till it gets published. They didn’t know that whether it is moderated or not. They just go on attacking but the main disadvantage of such bot or robot is that they don’t have intelligence like people because they don’t have brains. You can prevent this spam comments by just inserting some random questions in the comment box before it get published. Since they can’t think they won’t be able to answer the question. The question can be simple like what is 1+1 = ?
Although the answer is too simple but still they won’t be able to answer it. So that’s what I did in my blog. I added a math comment spam protection. It asks a simple mathematical question to the commentor before they can publish. If they are able to answer, the comment get published otherwise it will show an error message.
So how can I also prevent spam by math comment spam protection? Well math comment spam protection is a wordpress plugin for preventing spam comment. You will need to download the pluging, upload to your blog and activate it.
Download math comment spam protection plugin
You will get the rest instruction in the download page. I am sure if you implement this plugin in your wordpress blog there will be no more spam comment ever.
So how many spam comments you are getting on your blog? How did you tackle them and are you also using math comment spam protection plugin? Share with us.
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