When I login to my blog, this following message is showing up on the dashboard:
Huummm … 22,077 spam comments is a lot!
If at previous time, I’ll sweat when I see these spam comments, but since my blog start to use Akismet, I have never worry about the spam again.
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a wordpress plugin that collaborative effort to make comment, trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging. It checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not, and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Before Akismet I was spending more time deleting spam than creating content. Now with Akismet installed, I can focus on actually blogging!
Akismet not only help you caught spam comments on your blog, it also helps your blog stay away from those spammers called link farms “autoblogs” – a popular fad among black-hat SEO consultants, which is what spammers generally prefer to call themselves.
Autoblogs link means spammers who are using automated tools to copy material from your blog without permission and re-publish it on the fake blogs covered with ads. They typically doing it by send high volumes of pingback or trackback notifications to try to trick naive bloggers into linking to them, as a results to boosting their (spammers) search engine rankings at the expense of the original authors of the stolen material.
They rip off both the bloggers whose material they’ve stolen, and the advertisers who are paying for worthless ads run on bogus sites.
If you own any web site that allows users to consume resources, to allow users to perform an action – you need to monitor it for signs of abuse.
Akismet help you exactly on that, it is free for personal use, and for commercial use, they have different options for you to choose toward the size of your business.
Akismet Caught 22077 Spam Comments
When I login to my blog, this following message is showing up on the dashboard:
Huummm … 22,077 spam comments is a lot!
If at previous time, I’ll sweat when I see these spam comments, but since my blog start to use Akismet, I have never worry about the spam again.
Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short) is a wordpress plugin that collaborative effort to make comment, trackback spam a non-issue and restore innocence to blogging. It checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not, and lets you review the spam it catches under your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Before Akismet I was spending more time deleting spam than creating content. Now with Akismet installed, I can focus on actually blogging!
Akismet not only help you caught spam comments on your blog, it also helps your blog stay away from those spammers called link farms “autoblogs” – a popular fad among black-hat SEO consultants, which is what spammers generally prefer to call themselves.
Autoblogs link means spammers who are using automated tools to copy material from your blog without permission and re-publish it on the fake blogs covered with ads. They typically doing it by send high volumes of pingback or trackback notifications to try to trick naive bloggers into linking to them, as a results to boosting their (spammers) search engine rankings at the expense of the original authors of the stolen material.
They rip off both the bloggers whose material they’ve stolen, and the advertisers who are paying for worthless ads run on bogus sites.
If you own any web site that allows users to consume resources, to allow users to perform an action – you need to monitor it for signs of abuse.
Akismet help you exactly on that, it is free for personal use, and for commercial use, they have different options for you to choose toward the size of your business.
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