Hi, Just wondering... The last few months, I received a lot of spam on my WordPress blog. These messages are usually blocked my Akismet, so I'm lucky. But I was wondering: 1) Why suddenly so much spam? 2) Is there a way to receive less spam? I know it sounds stupid but I hate going through the stuff everyday in case a real comment gets lost in the junk (and it happens). Thanks for your input!
(1) I guess somehow somewhere the spam bots found you or your site is lucky to be included into one of the spammer's list (2) Delete away your Blog? Just joking, no way I guess. Unless there are concerted efforts world wide to combat spams, they will still come and will still increase year after year.....
Option #2 is... NOT an option! ;-) Oh well, I guess I'm flattered. I'm on a spammer's fav. list. Woo hoo.
1.) Depending on your niche or your attracted traffic, there may or may not be spam bots clogging up your site 2.) Install a captcha on it. Use recaptcha for best results : http://recaptcha.net/
my sites are also in spammers fav list, i get around 80-90 spam on daily base, before using AKismet i was sick
If you leave a comment on WordPress.org site and specify your blog URL, you'll inevitably see increase of spam comment pretty soon. Traceback will have the same effect (i.e. when you add a link to the official WordPress.org blog in your post).
Akismet is generally very good with its detection. I've yet to find a genuine comment that got tagged as spam.
Alright guys, thanks for the input. At least, I know I'm not alone! This spam thing is crazy when you think of it... I agree, Akismet is great and blocks most of it. Yet, it's a pain...
Try this plugin in addition to Akismet. Works wonders: http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/spam-filter/ Alex
I also face this problem but now i usually delete all the comments caught by akismet rather than going through them.