I have two outside Wordpress blogs and one of them receives a lot of spam. Has anyone else had problems getting a lot of spam comments on their blog? I am able to moderate (and spam) all comments, but I am getting at least 10 spam comments a day. Is this normal?

I did list the blog receiving the majority of the spam in two blog directories.

Blogarama & Real-Estate-Blogs

Has anyone else had this problem from these directories?

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA

Spam seems to be a reality of running a blog. I would suggest looking into SpamBam (plugin), which has completely eliminated spam on our wordpress blog.

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I figured that might be the case. I will look into that plug-in. Thank you.

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA

Congratulations. This means your blog is being circulated/syndicated around the web. Submit to more syndicators and delete the spam.

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I will look into that plugin also as mine has been plagued with about 100 odd pages of spam to delete over the holidays which is a real pain!

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I use Akismet and find this has stopped all spam comments so far. Being relatively new to the blog world, I'm not sure if there are better....but for me, this is doing the trick.

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This seems to be working thus far. Thanks again for the tip.

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Ryan A. Martin - Windermere Real Estate / Whatcom Inc.

Your Bellingham real estate professional specializing in the listing and sales of Bellingham condos. Also check out my Anacortes real estate website for information about Fidalgo Island and Anacortes, WA

Also make sure that you are using the nofollow attribute in the links from your blog comments. That will deter some of the spammers since they don't get any value out of the link that way.

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Akismet is killer. Your WP blog comes with it, you just have to get the API and enable it.

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I get a few spam comments on my blog everyday as well.

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