Comments on: I am thankful for their spam comments. They make me feel like a celebrity.

By: 1stAngel

1stAngel — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:53:01 +0000

I have loads oif spam thankfully, and I have always been thankful of it because it meant I was getting through to the world, in whatever way.

Spam brought people too and I seemed to get more visitors to the same posts that got spammed. As you say, that was probably the keywords I had used for that post so we live and learn

I use a fantastic anti spammer called Peter’s Custom Anti-Spam.. That works great for me

By: Leo (Healthy Tips For A Healthy Lifestyle)

Leo (Healthy Tips For A Healthy Lifestyle) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:31:10 +0000

Awww, I’m a little jelous of you getting spam now… ; )

Nope, I get very very few spam…

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 08:34:43 +0000

Liz, they are left by bots. Much like search engine bots, they go though blogs and submit comments with their links. You can find who spams you easily by checking a few links left in the comment.

By: liz

liz — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:54:41 +0000

Moderating your comments first is always a great way to get rid of spam. I find that using software and plug ins works great too. How do spam comments get to a bloganyway? Is there some kind of software that tracks down blogs and starts placing links? Does anyone know?

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:59:33 +0000

Precisely my strategy against spam too. Thanks for sharing.

By: Barbara Swafford

Barbara Swafford — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:13:20 +0000

I too use WordPress and Akismet, and love how they work. I try to keep my spam folder empty so that I can more easily check for non spam comments that may be “misfiled”.

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:44:52 +0000

yeap. I’ve heard spam karma is a really good plugin. But I’m happy with my current plugin, Akismet. The only problem with Akismet is that it sometimes identifies some non-spam comments as spam. Id on’t know what triggered this, but your comment and Rachel’s comment were both in the spam folder
Off to see what shoe has. That definitely helped. Thanks a lot.

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:35:20 +0000

lol.. Nice to finally see someone who actually thought like I do.. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

By: Nadeesha Cabral

Nadeesha Cabral — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:32:39 +0000

Thanks for agreeing with me. You’re absolutely right! If you mention ‘insurance’ in a post, then you’ll probably get a load of spam since that seems to be the most popular spam keyword.

By: Trend Squad

Trend Squad — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:30:38 +0000

Here’re a few things that worked really well for me and I have 6 blogs to go through everyday. SpamKarma which is a really good plugin for wordpress and that takes care about 85% of the spam comments. There’s also a good plugin at one of Shoemoney’s Blog he has a plugin that kills any comments from being posted if the post is older then 14 days which is where alot of the spammers are targeting. Hope this helps!