Askimet and WordPress spam Comments

The SEO Optimization blog in this last month of October has been flooded with spam comments. At the beginning I was moderating manually the comments and marking as spam the spam ones, but than the spam comments started to increase more and more as those damn spam bots were becoming smarter and smarter and now they have learned math and manage to pass my math spam comment buster.

The only way to stop all this spam automatically it was to activate the plugin Askimet which comes as default with every WordPress installation. After the activation of the plugin SEO Optimization started to breath some fresh air and I became less worried about spam and manually moderating them.

So far, since the day I have activated Askimet it has busted 187 spam comments and the total of the spam comments is 257 (practically 50%) and thats a load of saved time. Even tho Askimet has saved me from the hassle to mark as spam the spam comments it has created me also another problem, so far 4 legit comments have ended up in the spam box and I had to manually mark them as legit comments, and this causes me that I check the spam box every time the spam comments db increases in case there is a legit comment that needs to be manually approved and market as legit comment.

If you are suffering from spam comments than I advice you to activate the Askimet plugin from the Plugins menu of your WordPress and save a lot of time moderating manually the spam comments. Note: spam comments can negativelly effect SEO of your site by decreasing keyword density within your content and stuffing non welcome keywords.

Fight spam.

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