Comments on: Manual Blog Comment Spam

By: Basketcase

Basketcase — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:18:07 +0000

This is how it works. But I think this kind of spamming doesnt have a huge impact for SEO. What I see as much more “dangerous” for website-admins is content-grabbing via rss.

By: Diyet

Diyet — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:24:42 +0000

I have a couple blogs that are now almost 4 years old and have had to make them password protected which is very easy to do. I have tried several plug-in’s claiming to do the same but they did very little to stem the tide. I do still have to spend a lot of time approving posters but most spammers do not take the time to confirm.

By: güneş lekeleri

güneş lekeleri — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:34:10 +0000

Someone please suggest a way out.
Thanks.

By: Julian "directorio cusco" Suarez

Julian "directorio cusco" Suarez — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:35:00 +0000

I agree with you, it is always advisable to remove all traces of wordpress including copyright messages at the bottom and even the version of wordpress in the header file.

By: Mina

Mina — Fri, 29 May 2009 00:30:32 +0000

It’s pretty messed up the lengths some people go to. I’m a very new WP blogger, so I haven’t had an issue with spam yet. Is it something that builds up over time, as with email spam? (Ie, I have older email accounts that have been around and are much more heavily spammed than the newer ones)

Poster #1’s comment is news to me, is this something I should implement on my own blog? Thanks!

Mina

By: Abhimanyu

Abhimanyu — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:26:05 +0000

Elliott, here is another way of automated spamming http://mwolk.com/blog/wordpress-automated-comment-spam/, people posting generic content on thousands of blogs.

As far as your case is concerned, its always advisable to remove all traces of wordpress including copyright messages at the bottom and even the wordpress version in header file.

By: William

William — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:51:02 +0000

These are the types of things that you really have to learn to deal with, I receive like..mh..let me see, out of 200 comments 100 are spam, I really am pity for those people, should get another way to things around in the world of internet..

regards

By: Alice Hall

Alice Hall — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 09:20:39 +0000

Spammers and Spamming it wont stop it will go on its a nusiance to the bloggers and our respective sites best way out of the problem delete it thats what we bloggers can do.

By: Syed Taha

Syed Taha — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:40:29 +0000

I had a similar problem where i got hundreds of span comments everyday on my blog. And it was getting difficult to approve the original comments because of this. So i added the akismet plugin which now stops spammers from posting links.

But my problem is, these spammers are eating away my bandwidth.
I have three blogs and a forum running on a single host with limited bandwidth. And these link hungry spammers eat all my bandwidth.

Someone please suggest a way out.
Thanks.

By: big shop

big shop — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:47:31 +0000

Spamming is a problem and we can say a pin in the *** but akismet helps me very much and I can only suggest everyone to use it too (or something similar).