We had a comment today on one of our blogs that got through that said something like, “you sure got a lot of comment spam on this post”. The thing is that Akismet had caught all the comment spam on that post, so their comment was the only one waiting in moderation. I promptly market it as spam. Pretty funny to have comment spam about comment spam.

Anyway, I like Akisment a lot as well.

Oh, and I think the reason that some people believe Yahoo ignores no-folloiw tag is because the links marked with the no-follow tag show up in the linkdomain command. I have assumed that Yahoo ignores it as well. Quite frankly all search engines should ignore it. It was a bad idea from the start. Just allows SEO savvy people to hog PR. Well, at least that’s my opinion.

However, I was not aware of the list of Spam Words that WordPress has listed on the WP site. A big thank-you to Brian Benzinger (#2 comment in this post) to the tip on that!

Darren, you’ll enjoy WP2!

Thanks

BUT… as Michael thankfully pointed out to us — the best solution is a combo of either Bad Behavior + Akismet, or Spam Karma2 + Akismet. Since Michael’s recommendation we’ve been using Spam Karma2 + Akismet on our blogs, and we’ve been recommending the combo to all our clients.

We’ve been thrilled with thousands of spam messages being filtered on a weekly basis. Our assistant has reduced her blog admin time (much of it dealing with comment spam) from a couple hours per week, to 10 minutes, and that’s just to quickly scan the SK2 comment spam logs to be sure no real comments got tagged. Every one of our coaching clients has been equally as thrilled.

Although neither partner and I, nor any of our clients are “full time bloggers” blogging for a living — we are all busy business owners. So the virtual elimination of all comment spam (and accuracy in allowing legit comments) allows us to focus on content creation instead of frustrating admin activities. Plus it drops a lot of admin time right to the bottom line. :)

BTW — Angusman, I think you’ll like you’ll personally appreciate the “helpful links” section of a new Wikipedia article on Blog Scraping.

Question then; how protected are blogspot blogs from spammer?

Kenny

The Akismet tool is phenomenal though. It saves you some effort on keystroking.

I’m so small-time that I have the luxury of eyeballing and manually approving comments, but someday (I hope!) I’ll have to trust Akismet to do the job for me.

Fight Wordpress Comment Spam

–Angsuman

Interestingly when i installed Akismet and upgraded to WP 2 I had a big loading problem with this blog today. It was taking minutes to load both at the front and back end.

When I disabled Bad Behavior it fixed it. Not sure what that was about – perhaps the rate at which I’m being spammed had something to do with it (since activating Akismet an hour ago it’s killed 800 spam comments already!)

Anyway, that’s a lot of comment spam, and while I wanted to have Bad Behaviour 2 out sometime this weekend, the slashdotting I took yesterday has led me to re-evaluate a few things in its design. So it’ll probably be delayed (again) at least a few more days.

Nothing but good things to say about Akismet – it runs at around 99% accuracy for me and is one the best aspects of upgrading to WP2. I wasn’t as pleased with the “import tool” for importing posts from Blogger to WP. Not sure why but WP is automatically rewriting the post slugs, which is ending in “Post Not Found” errors by the hundreds. Unless someone has a better idea, I am manually rewriting the altered “post slugs” to match the old Blogger URLs.

You will be knocked out by the accuracy of Akismet.

Just wondering how much it will cost for single blog .. anyone got any idea