Comments on: How I Reduced Spam by 99.99% on my WordPress Blog? http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/ Tips,tricks,News,Reviews,Tutorials on-Firefox,Web 2.0,Online TV,Online tools,Gadgets and more Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:39:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: pbx http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-46230 pbx Mon, 27 Dec 2010 08:53:48 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-46230 Thanks for sharing, Definitely will give a try. Thanks for sharing, Definitely will give a try.

]]> By: Arif http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5685 Arif Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:32:04 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-5685 Raju, I'm not using WordPress or any other CMS on my website. A spammer is using our name to spam WordPress blogs writing silly things and when someone clicks on the link he goes to our website so this gives the impression that we spam others. I honestly don't need more traffic as I have more jobs than I can handle, I almost went to the point that I thought of posting a note that I won't be taking new jobs for a while. 100% of it is word of mouth. I actually didn't know about this blog until I checked my stats. Is the spammer targeting other webmasters? Maybe a maniac web marketer discovered that webmasters always check their incoming traffic and are curious to find out where it comes from so he packaged it in an ebook and started selling the info for $27.95 along with some stale bonuses. It seems that WordPress is set by default to auto accept comment so he uses this feature to say what garbage he wants to say. This action makes other webmasters think that we spammed their blogs. Anyway I already posted the note on my website to alert other webmasters. There's nothing else that I can do against identity theft. Regards, Arif Raju,

I’m not using WordPress or any other CMS on my website. A spammer is using our name to spam WordPress blogs writing silly things and when someone clicks on the link he goes to our website so this gives the impression that we spam others.

I honestly don’t need more traffic as I have more jobs than I can handle, I almost went to the point that I thought of posting a note that I won’t be taking new jobs for a while. 100% of it is word of mouth. I actually didn’t know about this blog until I checked my stats. Is the spammer targeting other webmasters?

Maybe a maniac web marketer discovered that webmasters always check their incoming traffic and are curious to find out where it comes from so he packaged it in an ebook and started selling the info for $27.95 along with some stale bonuses.

It seems that WordPress is set by default to auto accept comment so he uses this feature to say what garbage he wants to say. This action makes other webmasters think that we spammed their blogs.

Anyway I already posted the note on my website to alert other webmasters. There’s nothing else that I can do against identity theft.

Regards,
Arif

]]> By: Raju http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5675 Raju Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:09:18 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-5675 @Arif, With the spam control system currently in place in this blog (as described in the article), even this comment was pushed to spam queue. I guess you must contact Akismet and get yourself removed from the spammers list. @Arif,
With the spam control system currently in place in this blog (as described in the article), even this comment was pushed to spam queue. I guess you must contact Akismet and get yourself removed from the spammers list.

]]> By: Arif http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5674 Arif Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:54:26 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-5674 Hi Guys, Spam is for some reason driving traffic to my website. The wrong traffic all from mad webmasters. It seems that someone has gone crazy spamming wordpress in particular using our name. Is this a WordPress problem? Anyway, I'll just link back to this blog from my website for other wordpress webmasters to take note. Thanks, Arif Hi Guys,

Spam is for some reason driving traffic to my website. The wrong traffic all from mad webmasters. It seems that someone has gone crazy spamming wordpress in particular using our name.

Is this a WordPress problem? Anyway, I’ll just link back to this blog from my website for other wordpress webmasters to take note.

Thanks,
Arif

]]> By: Raju http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5672 Raju Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:43:56 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-5672 @Suneel, captcha is what they call "a-pain-in-the-a$$". It hurts the genuine commentators and spammers alike. @Suneel,
captcha is what they call “a-pain-in-the-a$$”. It hurts the genuine commentators and spammers alike.

]]> By: Suneel http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5667 Suneel Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:15:06 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-5667 Sounds too lucrative. Leaving all these aside, I believe that using a CAPTCHA would reduce the spam by 99%. I tried it and found 100% result from that. I would suggest everyone who is suffering from spam to block the bots by just using a simple captcha plugin on your blogs. Sounds too lucrative.

Leaving all these aside, I believe that using a CAPTCHA would reduce the spam by 99%.

I tried it and found 100% result from that. I would suggest everyone who is suffering from spam to block the bots by just using a simple captcha plugin on your blogs.

]]> By: techniqueal t. http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2657 techniqueal t. Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:49:14 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-2657 sounds an interesting try. will check it once i get my WP blog up and running. <abbr><em><abbr><em>techniqueal t.s last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/technicaldotcom/~3/471474530/recent-comments-widget-for-blogger.html" rel="nofollow">Recent Comments Widget for Blogger CommentLuv Users</a></em></abbr></abbr></em> sounds an interesting try. will check it once i get my WP blog up and running.

techniqueal t.s last blog post..Recent Comments Widget for Blogger CommentLuv Users

]]> By: Raju http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2508 Raju Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:44:03 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-2508 @Jason, As I have explained in the article, it changes the id, name fields internally to keep away bots. The side effect of this mechanism is what you have mentioned about. Some other comment related plugins will cease to work. @Jason,
As I have explained in the article, it changes the id, name fields internally to keep away bots. The side effect of this mechanism is what you have mentioned about. Some other comment related plugins will cease to work.

]]> By: Jason http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2507 Jason Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:50:42 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-2507 It's not all good -- Antispam Bee seems to prevent the functioning of plugins that need to find the comment field, eg. ajax preview plugins. It’s not all good — Antispam Bee seems to prevent the functioning of plugins that need to find the comment field, eg. ajax preview plugins.

]]> By: Raju http://techpp.com/2009/02/08/how-i-reduced-spam-by-9999-on-my-wordpress-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-2341 Raju Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:35:00 +0000 http://techpp.com/?p=5016#comment-2341 @stratos Come on man, don't trouble us with those tough math captchas :( @stratos
Come on man, don’t trouble us with those tough math captchas :(

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