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One way to lessen the spam on your blog

Filed Under (How To, Site maintenance, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins) by Tricia on 21-05-2007

I’ve always had Akismet activated on our Wordpress blogs, and we do get a fair amount of comments. However, in February I also added Bad Behavior to our sites because the amount of spam Akismet was catching was getting out of hand. I was easily getting 400 spam comments on some sites!

That’s a lot of spam to go through to find a real comment or two!

I still find that anyone who leaves a link or two in their comment often ends up having their comment go to the spam folder. I hate that, you’d think that if I approved their comments once or twice in the past both Wordpress and Akismet would learn and not put the post in the spam folder. I even increased the amount of links allowed in a comment on one of my sites because I run several blogrolls out of that site and it still puts the comments with one or two links in it in spam.

As I was saying, in February, I downloaded Bad Behavior, and it actually hides the site from some bad bots so the amount of Spam hitting our sites dropped dramatically.

Yes we still get spam, but it’s down to at most 10 spam per day on the busiest sites, and often only one or none on some days. It’s great … 400 spam a day down to 1 to 10? I love it!

So if you are sick of dealing with spam download the Bad Behavior plugin, install it in your Wordpress plugin folder and then activate the plugin. That’s all you have to do. It works along side Akismet without any problems.

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Comments:

11 Responses to “One way to lessen the spam on your blog”

Jason A Clark (1 comments.) on 21 May 2007 at 4:51 pm #

I do not yet have that big of a problem with spam so Akismet has done a great job for me. Of course, I’m fairly new to all of this so I’m going to keep Bad Behavior in mind for the future. Thanks for the tip!
Ruby (1 comments.) on 23 May 2007 at 12:51 pm #

As a new blogger, I like finding useful blogging advice. I’ll keep Bad Behavior in mind, thanks for this post
Bucky (1 comments.) on 24 May 2007 at 1:01 pm #

Thanks for the tip!

I knew that there had to be a better way of sorting the good comments from the bad.

I get around 200 spam comments everyday, and it is a royal pain trying to sort them out.
Jack (4 comments.) on 25 May 2007 at 2:51 am #

hi this is my first visit to your site. nice, i love it

about spam comment, why don’t you use some CAPTCHA Plugin for Wordpress? it’s good enough i think

hope my comment won’t get into spam folder

Tricia Says - It did. Please don’t put links in your comments.
Ron (4 comments.) on 27 May 2007 at 5:01 pm #

If I get any traffic that will come in handy.
goldcoaster (1 comments.) on 29 May 2007 at 1:30 am #

I have never had much of a spam problem with akismet and wordpress. akismet catches everything it should.
I am now trying out blogger/blogspot and see how that goes.
BTW does akismet say that this is spam?
Neerav (1 comments.) on 30 May 2007 at 8:38 am #

I use a simple homemade CAPTCHA in conjunction with akismet for all my blogs so very little comment spam gets through (less than 5/month)
Steve (1 comments.) on 2 Jun 2007 at 12:30 pm #

Akismet seems to do a pretty reasonable job for me, but there’s no such thing as too much security, so I’ll give bad behavior a shot, I think.

Thanks for the tip!

Steve
andy (1 comments.) on 3 Jun 2007 at 3:13 pm #

Just like many have said already, akismet catches most of the spam. If it’s getting out of hand, you should definitely try to captcha method.
Steve L. (1 comments.) on 4 Jun 2007 at 2:18 pm #

Thanks for the great tip.
Guido (1 comments.) on 6 Nov 2007 at 12:54 pm #

Thanks for the tip, I am looking for something to complement akismet due to the amount of spam I am getting, but I did not find one to make the trick. I will try this one and let know how it goes.

Thanks…