How to stop Blog Comment Spam?

I am getting a lot of Comment Spams in my Wordpress Blogs Recently. Can anyone suggest me how to stop these spams?

Thanks a lot for help
bnts

 

I find using akismet and manually approving comments from new commentors is the easiest way.

 

Captcha is a fairly simple and effective method of filtering out automated rubbish. I also approve each post - works for me, but I'm small scale and usually only get 10 or 20 comments per day. You do get the odd persistent spammer who types things in manually but these are pretty easy to filter off.

 

Actually, I manually approve all comments but the thing is the spammy comments keep coming no matter how many times I disapprove them. All Spams come from some similar IPs and most of the links provided are quite similar. And the spam comments are posted on the same single post every time. Is there anyway I can stop such comments from coming to that specific post?

Thanks,
bnts

 

Have u tried akismet though? it is fantastic -- it will prescan and move all spam to a separate location from valid comments

 

I use akismet too and rarely get a spam comment that passes through it. Actually, maybe I never did (knock on wood.)

 

Askimet is the way to go, however since you have noticed that spams are coming from the same IP why not just ban the IP.

 

I haven't tried it yet..but I will try it soon. Thanks for the suggestion..

The IPs are not same, they are only similar..Will be good for me to ban the whole IP range?

 

Akismet does its job well. All you need is the API key.

BTW, if you don't want Akismet...other options
http://codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Spam_Tools

 

I have built pr 3 sites with only blog comment spams

 

How can you have a wp blog without Askimet?!

 

That was a great link...thanks for that

You mean you spam comments

Just activated but they asked me for the API key..searching for that right now

 

Just signup for an account at wordpress.com and they'll give you one

 

What he said!

Do let me know if you need further help!

BTW,there's a new version,you'd better upgrade to wp 2.1 first.

 

Got the API thingy, will see if everything works fine now... I will upgrade WP soon as well

Thanks, for all the help..
Cheers,
bnts

 

I think in the end your only resource is manually approving comments. Spammers are far too resourceful to truly stop.

 

Akisemet is a must have for any serious wordpress blog. Does its job, well.

 

Yeh I have activated it and now it has automatically deleted all spams

Thanks for all the suggestion guys
Cheers,
bnts

 

Akismet is what I use on my wordpress blogs. Spammers need locked up in prison!

 

Add another vote for Akismet. I get thousands of spam comments a week and akismet catches 99.99% of them.