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Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Jomo — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:29:04 -0000

My favourite method is the maths captcha. I find the image captchas sometimes unreadable. I've gotten the word wrong many times when using it!
With the maths captchas, it's best to keep it to single digits only eg. 4+8. Don't make it to tricky so your users have to get a calculator.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

leo — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:42:19 -0000

Thanks for all the tips. Actually I don't use much plugins, only what's necessary to avoid eating-up server resources. Overall, I use only around 4 or 5 wordpress plugins in my blog.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

sohbet — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:31:46 -0000

you guys tallking abaut stop spam but evry one give one page me too this is not spam?:)) so funny

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Solomon Rothman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:36:10 -0000

Jack - interesting reply I haven't heard that one before. The problem with comment spam though, is even if your visitors don't click on it, it can be really unpleasant and vulgar like hard **** . I don't want my visitors to have to see that when what they really want is to read about search marketing and bs comments are distracting. Luckily we have some great anti-spam tools now.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Jack — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:31:09 -0000

My blog is only small, so comment spam isn't an issue for me. If it was, I wouldn't care. If people want to spam, let them. Personally, I have enough faith in my readers to trust them not to click dumb links.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Senjaya Khoo — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:58:15 -0000

Excellent! Your Perfect Way to block spam and get their KARMA! So spammer please stop spamming, because world hate you!
I've experienced be spamming from adult content, so I'm using link down to 2 links only, helpfull...
THANKS

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Paul O'Brien — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:34:18 -0000

Michael, Michael Visser

I'd love to see a post, giving folks the opportunity to comment and criticize

"You have complete control over your customization" Is that still true with the new blogger? What can't I do?

I've also redirected blogger to my domain so how is that different than what you're suggesting; I'm at http://www.seobrien.com

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Thomas McMahon — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:33:36 -0000

Thanks for the comments on the Bad Behavior scripts. It sounds like they block to much. As for Akismet and Spam Karma, does anyone think they get worse over time? I'm not sure if spam is getting smarter or if the plugins are missing more. Just a thought.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Oli — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:04:29 -0000

I have just had a nightmare with spam over the past few weeks (www.grasscircle.co.uk/blog) I was literally getting 100+ spam comments a day - installed Akismet and my prayers had been answered - not one since!

It really is the biggest threat to blogging and without these anti-spam tools we would be doomed!

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Everyday Weekender — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:52:00 -0000

Great post!.. Spam will always be around - but its always cool to hear about new ways to help prevent it!

;)

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Michael Goldberg — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 09:53:09 -0000

I have played with a few, Akismet seems to be the best suited for me.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Mama Duck — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 21:38:47 -0000

I used Spam Karma for quite a while, but it started letting a lot of stuff in of late, so I switched over to Akismet and it's working well for now. Bad Behavior actually blocked the Googlebots to my site and caused a huge drop in traffic for about a week until I turned that off. I'd love to see Bad Behavior tweaked though, because I love the idea behind it.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Lars Koudal — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:07:46 -0000

My mix of Bad Behaviour and Akismet resulted in a lot of false positives on my main blog, and I turned them off shortly after receiving a few e-mails complaining they were bad mouthed by my comment plugin.

I ran into Angsuman's Comment Guard plugin and was accepted into the beta-program.

The plugin is nice and unobtrusive, and it has resulted in no false positives as far as I can see so far.

That was my 2 cents :-)

Cheers

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Brian Auer — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:55:19 -0000

As soon as I got comment spammed for the first time (not even one week after launch) I told WordPress to only publish comments from users that have a previously approved comment. That way I don't have to approve every single comment, and I can mark all the spam as... spam.

I don't know if marking comments as spam actually helps anything, but I've noticed that my spam has been dropping consistently over the last month or so. I was getting 100 per day at first, but now I only get 5 or 6 per day. Plus, I don't even have the Akismet plugin activated. Go figure.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Michael Visser — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:43:17 -0000

Hi Paul, I hope I can help you here.

The benefit of using WordPress over Google Blogger as a blogging platform is that you have complete control over the customization - plugins, templates, css - on your server (via FTP, WebDav, RDC or local access). The simplest reason though is that by hosting a Wordpress install it is part of your website - http://www.website.com/blog/ - and contributes to your company or personal sites organic ranking.

I'm happy to write a more detailed report if you wish. WordPress is the way to go though!

Cheers.

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Glen — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:43:06 -0000

Great post, im sure it will be helpful to many

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Paul O'Brien — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:19:42 -0000

Perhaps a little off topic but not completely

Your suggestions seem taylored to WordPress so have you posted a comparison of WP and Blogger or know of where one can be found?

Re: 10 Spam Stopping Techniques For Your Blog

Solomon Rothman — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:10:27 -0000

I think it's on old debate that luckily has already been solved effectively. Akismet takes care of all my spam problems. If the number of caught spam gets too high, I'll install a captcha. Not much else to say.