SEO Specialist Philippines | Mitchell Espina

Is it really possible to stop spam comments in your wordpress blog?

By the way, what are spam comments? A spam comment is one posted by an auto-comment-software or by an individual (doing blog commenting task to get backlinks) which automatically submits unrelated comments. And these type of comments may include links to other websites. {see image below: example of spam comments}

Here’s what I did to fight against these types of comments:

1) I have activated an option under settings – discussions: users must be registered and logged in to comment
2) I have activated the Akismet plugin.

I have already tried using reCAPTCHA in one of my personal blogs, but still spam comments can get through, maybe because the auto-comment-software they’re using can solve captcha.

I will update this blog post in a month time to see if the methods above are effective to fight against unwanted comments.

Oh! in addition, I have installed a “SEO Facebook Comment” so you can leave your comments using your facebook account. I just hope that this will not be abused. Should I think in advance on how to prevent “spam comments on Facebook”?