There are so many techniques avaiable to prevent spam comments in WordPress blog.You need find and fight against them daily.When Geekyard was started for first few months we were facing spam comment problem.Every time when I login to WordPress dashboard, 100’s of spam comments will be waiting to be deleted.
New WordPress users will find it difficult to differentiate between regular comments and spam comments.Because sometime spam comments appear to be as natural comment.Hence, you have to find and fight your way to prevent spam comments in your blog. In this article I will tell two techniques which worked out well in Geekyard to prevent spams.We reduced 100’s Spam comments to 0-1 per day. 😉
What is Blog Comment Spam?
Spam comments are posted automatically in blogs by automated bots or some softwares. The goal of spam commenter is to leave a link of their site in your blog. Spam commenters mainly target Dofollow blogs because these blogs will help to boost SEO of sites which are linked to it.You can easily Identify spam coments because it is will full of irrelevant keywords, totally unrealated to discussion or article and hyperlinks also will be there.Checkout this article, Tips to comment on blogs
What is Trackback Spam?
You will receive a Trackback whenever someone links to your blog post . Trackbacks is one of the link building technique which helps to boost SEO. If you are using Dofollow comment system like Geekyard you should be prepared to fight against spam comments. If you are not aware of Dofollow and nofollow read this article,
Usually enabling Trackbacks leads to spam comments.Read this Article, Delete All Trackbacks In WordPress Blog.
How to Fight Against Spam Comments?
Lets now see 2 simple techniques to prevent spam comment in your WordPress Blogs.
1. WP-SpamFree Plugin
The WP-SpamFree plugin virtually eliminates automated comment spam from bots, including trackback and pingback spam.Its an extremely powerful anti-spam plugin that eliminates comment spam, including trackback and pingback spam. It works invisibly without CAPTCHA’s, or other inconvenience to site visitors.
How to Install WP-SpamFree
1. Goto WordPress Dashboard –> Plugin.
2. Search for WP-SpamFree.
3. Click Install.
4. Activate the Plugin.
Enjoy a Spam Free Blog 😉
2. WP Captcha Free
WP Captcha-Free pulgin blocks automated comment spam without resorting to CAPTCHAs. It does so by validating a hash based on time (and some other parameters) using AJAX when the form is posted. Comments posted via automated means will not have a hash or will have an expired hash and will be rejected. Unlike using a captcha, this does not place any burden on the commenter.
How to Install WP Captcha Free
1. Goto WordPress Dashboard –> Plugin.
2. Search for WP Captcha Free.
3. Click Install.
4. Then Activate the Plugin. 🙂
These are the two methods that helped us to prevent spam comments in Geekyard blog.What techniques do you use to fight against Spam Problem? 🙂
i think capta and comdom for coment will be block spam wordpress
Link building is one of best SEO techniques that we can apply to increase the popularity of websites or blog on the search engine. Although there are many SEO techniques besides link building, link building but it is still a major activity in the SEO. Thank you for this, your post is very helpful.
I use WP-Captcha-Free on my blogs, it works great (unless one wants protection from trackback and pingback spam).
I haven’t really tried wp-spam-free tho.
In my opinion i think its better to use WPSpam Free.. I used to use akismet but now i dont because its gone paid!