Dealing With Wordpress Spam

Hey – my girlfriend just taught me how to use this, so it will do some spam catching for you. If you want, you can do the same. I decided to blog this because I think it will help you a little with the spam problem that is proliferating blogs.

First, you need to understand why people want to have blogs spammed. Firstly, when blogs have comments, it usually gets people to your site if they are curious about what you wrote. Unfortunately, nowadays, spam is not even intelligble. It contains a host of different kinds of links and usually lots of sexual enhancement pills and the like (yawn).

Second, it is an attempt to get traffic, but it doesn’t really work unless you have genuine blog comments and form a part of the community. Anyhow… here it goes.

Step 1: activate your Akismet plugin in your “plugins” tab:

Step 2: go get your Wordpress.com API. You need to register and click your verification in your email. Once you log into Wordpress.com, you will have to retrieve your API here:

Once this is done, you’re done with catching spam.

I’ll let you know how well this fares, but to deal with the spam issue, let’s all ensure we ourselves don’t do silly things like this to create more problems.