I’m not sure about other bloggers out there, but we seem to get our fair share of comment spam. Sure WP-SpamFree catches several hundred per day from automated bots and scripts, which is pretty cool. I’m glad that they started tracking it and showing me the number of blocked messages in the dashboard – it sure takes the load off of askimet.
However the messages that I still have to go in and remove manually are those from people who didn’t read the comment policy – or ignored the message next to the name box that says “no keywords”. Sure this blog is part of the dofollow movement and the commentluv movement, but that doesn’t mean your free to leave all the keyword spam you want in the comment field.
So I will continue to remove comments from people who choose to use something other than their name in the name field. Sometimes if the comment is more than “great post” – i’ll allow a site name instead of a name. But I really don’t understand why it is that people who write some great comments choose to have their comments removed instead of displayed, just because they are more concerned about a keyword anchor text link.
So if you want to leave a comment – I would love to have them, but please just use your name. I really don’t like seeing so many great comments go to waste because people chose keywords instead.
Have a great weekend!
I get so much comment spam. Thank you for the link to WP-SpamFree.
By the way, the girl with her jeans open is offensive.
Dofollow it’s always a nice way to get visitors like me.
It’s also a nice way to get free content that will get indexed. Some of us will usually return, could be for two possible reasons:
1.- Comment spam
2.- Read a nice blog
I agree with the keyword rule.
Either way it’s a win win.
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@Jeanette – thats just an ad we run normally on other sites. Sorry about that – it was an entrecard that someone designed for us – free. I need to have some others developed as well.
I am Looking forward to trying wp-SpamFree. It is always a struggle to keep the spam posts out,even with askimet. Between email and blog comments it can easily take up to much time during the day cleaning up.
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It is good idea to get visitors and forced to comment something as per their idea.
good idea to get visitors!!
WP-SpamFree is a powerful anti-spam plugin for WordPress!
thank you let me know it
@Mark – great to hear it
@david – i hope you enjoy it.
It’s a great way to encourage comments (CommentLuv and DoFollow). And you can get great Keyword Anchor text if you a Keyword optimized Blog Title
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Maybe you could put an exemption, for example like my name. It’s like a nickname for me and it’s the title of my blog.
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I got more than 900 spam comments everyday, and WP-SpamFre helped me block all them
WP-SpamFree is a good plugin for worldpress,thanks for let me know more about it.I will use it in my blog.thanks again!
There are a lot of spammers out there but I think that there are bloggers with good intentions that want to post on your blog but also want to network and share there experiences. If they are leaving mindless comments that don’t mean anything I would delete them too – but if they are adding to your content then I would post them no matter who says them. Robots are one thing – but people are another (there are some annoying people out there too, don’t get me wrong)…anyways, good luck fighting the spam!