Blog Spam: Keep It Under Control

Do you get a lot of blog spam? If so then you need to keep it under control. Too many bloggers think that if they require people to sign in before they comment then that will control the spam on their blog. That’s a big myth. It might keep the robots out, but as long as any human can type in the letters of your captcha or create an account and log on then you can expect to receive some spam on your blog.

The truth is, it is much more difficult to moderate that kind of spam than it is to moderate using a WordPress plug-in that I’m about to recommend. The plug-in’s name is Akismet.

Akismet is great for controlling blog spam on WordPress because it stops all of your blog comments before they go live. No one can see any comment, spam or otherwise, until you approve it. You can set Akismet to automatically delete any unapproved comments after a certain period of time. Or you can manually delete any comment you don’t approve of.

By using Akismet as a WordPress plug-in, you can ensure that any comment that meets your approval is approved when you want to approve it. Otherwise, if it’s spam, you can just delete it.

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