Spam From My Blog

[offalyniceguy]

I contstantly get spam form my blog and recieve close to a 100 emails a day from people wanting me to "approve" their comment so they can sell viagr a or whatever. How can I get rid of these guys? Thanks, Levi

[BrandonSternfield]

Require some sort of user interaction to post a comment, i.e. put random images etc on it.

[SEO Nick]

I get the same thing with my Wordpress blog. It's pretty annoying when I get all excited that I have 25 new emails and find out that they are all spam from my blog.

[judyo]

Do a search here for blog spam, it's been covered before. Wordpress has some spam plug-ins and there is a built-in control in the admin section that let's you list certain words that if included in the spam comments will get automatically deleted. On my older blog this is all I use and I have all the drugs & porn words on the list so I don't get any spam if they contain these words. If a new drug pops up I add it to the list.

I haven't really looked into the spam plug-ins much.

[BrandonSternfield]

But what if someone is commenting on the rising Viagra market in the town you talked about?

But seriously, filters work good, until you get the spam that have the number/letter (1337 speak) words to get around the filters.

[offalyniceguy]

Thanks for your replys. Filter looking I go. It is seriously crazy how many spam emails I get. Ill send a direct link if I find a good one. Kepp up the goodwork. LB

[offalyniceguy]

ok supposedly this is the end all on keeping the blog spam out!
for wordpress and I believe other platforms.
akismet is the software put in your dot com. Sems pefect so far and easy to install even for me.

[Boston Condo Guy]

We have been fighting this as well, and based on the addition of these two plugins, all of our comment spam is gone (much of this was born from this post):

SpamBam Plugin - eliminates comment spam completely.

WP Contact Form Plugin - A contact form that includes a simple question (i.e. 2 + 2 = what?), which eliminates email spam.

Happy blogging.