WordPress Captcha Comments Plugin

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 at 4:02 am

wordpress captcha comments plugin

WordPress spam comments

If you own a WordPress blog, you may already have come through the comment spam. Comment spam can become a big headache if you run multiple blogs. However, there are solutions to address this problem. WordPress comes with some built-in mechanisms to avoid spam and then there are some external plugins that can completely prevent your blog from receiving spam comments.

Comment spam is very similar to spam e-mail on the grounds. While email spam is to get publicity and exposure, unwanted comments about creating backlinks. As you know, most major search engines focus on backlinks, while ranking web pages. And this is what the spammers are after.

To address the problem of unwanted comments, WordPress adds the label does not follow the links added through the box comment. This means that search engines do not value links. However, this has not been completely eradicated the problem. Spammers still spam blogs, you can be, with the intention of getting direct visits.

Here are some techniques to prevent spam in the comments:

Akismet: WordPress comes installed with a plugin called Akismet, which recognizes and separates spam comments of others. To use Akismet, you have to activate and enter your API key. You need to register your email to get your WordPress API key. Akismet is very accurate in recognizing spam in the comments.

Spamkarma: Spamkarma is a plugin to prevent comment spam. It is designed to prevent all forms of automated comments. To see more about spamkarma

Bad Behavior: Bad behavior is a set of PHP scripts which prevents that comments from spam. It acts as a guardian, and spam bots to block access to the pages of your blog. For more information about Bad behavior see http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/

In In addition to using these supplements, we also recommend the use of an image, along with the comments box. This will ensure that only humans can post comments. However, there are some robots that can read characters from the catch. If you use any of the plugins I mentioned earlier, an image code not necessary.

There is a plugin called reCAPTCHA that does a good job. Check it out @ http://recaptcha.net/plugins/wordpress/ Use it and I'm sure it will remain free of spam:)

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