Let’s tackle the best ways to reduce blog spam on WordPress… WordPress spam is simply one of those things every blogger has to live with — unless, of course, you opt to disable comments on your blog altogether.
How to Identify and Stop Blog Comment Spam
As a follow up to Jonathan Bailey’s great post yesterday, Blogging Pitfalls: Becoming a Spammer, I wanted to talk about comment spam a bit more. Bloggers are often inundated with comment spam, which can get so bad that they might even reconsider moderating comments. Unfortunately, there are some forms of comment spam that have gotten […]
5 Easy Ways to Become a Blacklisted Blogger
Did you know there are some very simple things you can do on the social Web (and you might already be doing some of them) that can get you blacklisted, meaning you’ll be labeled as an annoyance, a person to avoid, or worse — a spammer? Suffice it to say, if you want your blog […]
Kill Blog Comment Spam in 5 Easy Steps
An easy way to ruin the visitor experience on your blog is by allowing the comments sections of your posts to get cluttered with spam comments, which do nothing to add to the conversation and typically include links to useless, irrelevant or spam pages. Fortunately, you can fight back against blog comment spam! Depending on […]