I hate spam..!! Who doesn’t..?
I have left the Blog untouched with the default WordPress settings when it came to No follow tags and currently waiting or sometime to let the domain get old and effective organically (meaning by not using SEO tactics apart from the ordinary).
After sufficient time is passed, I would sit down and rework on the Blog from SEO point of view, something I like to call SEO Maintenance. But until then, I am a bit fed up with Akismet and its filtering incapability.
I daily get infused with at least 2-3 comments which pass Akismet and land in my Comments Control Panel. Now this really pisses me off. Reason been 2-3 spam comments multiplied by the number of sites I own results in a number little difficult to manage.
Finding gibberish text with links all over just lying there to be marked as “SPAM” – why oh why do these people don’t understand. Forget it, no point mulling over the issue.
I might try my search for a better spam preventing plug-in for blog comments. Let me know if you have any suggestions.
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Akismet works very well for me. All the obvious spam gets caught, the posts it does not stop are the comments like: “Great Post, nice blog, I’ll be reading more”.
I guess the blog spammers think if they send out 1 million comments and 10,000 get through and 1,000 are do follow, that’s 1,000 very cheap links. Whether blog comment links are even counted at all by Google is another story. It seems they have some value if you get enough of them.
Akismet is also working quite well for me. There will always be a few comments that slip through – just mark them spam to help out the rest of us. I don’t of any other tools to recommend but if you find any I’m sure it would make a great post. Best of luck.