Blog Spam gets worse

**Asida** · 08-01-2007, 12:47 AM

Actually the software is called Akismet not Askimet, as you both spelled incorrectly, I found it anyway.
I would post the link, but unfortunately I need 7 more posts

**DarinU** · 02-06-2008, 02:19 PM

Jeez I can't believe they think that will actually help them. The crawlers (google at least) will probably eventually catch on and not count the link or penalize them for that.

**billnad** · 02-07-2008, 06:52 AM

Well thanks for the correction, I did not realize the spelling and have always called it askimet.

Anyway I used to use a plugin for Movable Type to get rid of spam and it worked well, I am now using Wordpress a lot and Akismet gets rid of all of the spam, well over 95% anyway. so I am satisfied with that.

It is true that if Google did a better job at filtering out the spam as backlinks then we would hopefully see an end to spam but at this point I am just going to accept that the occasional spam that gets through will be deleted by me.

On a slightly different tack I have found that less people comment then a couple of years ago and part of that is because there is not enough of a reason to comment and get no backlink from it so most people don't. I have added a "do follow" plugin on one of my blogs and let all the reader know with a couple of posts so I am interested in seeing how well this will work. The idea is that all approved comments (I approve all comments before they go live) do not have the default no follow tag, there are people actively searching for this so I will come back with my results.

**rainier** · 04-17-2008, 06:24 AM

it is important to read as many times our contents, it's good you are open for correction...keep it up!

**FBCondos** · 02-10-2010, 12:09 AM

Spammy comments make the website look so messy. You can moderate your comments, delete those spams, or you can just flame them, bringing a bad reputation to the sites they're endorsing. Though, there are spam comments that add to the topic, if that's the case I will just keep it.

**FBofficesapace** · 02-22-2010, 02:57 AM

Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media. Spamming remains economically viable because advertisers have no operating costs beyond the management of their mailing lists, and it is difficult to hold senders accountable for their mass mailings.