Some people just don’t have anything much to do in their lives except to bug others. That’s what spammers do. They have come close to ruining everything on the Internet. But bloggers can choose to fight back.
Fighting against blog spam costs a lot of trial and error. With some patience and perseverance, you can stop spammers by following steps:
* Moderate comments. Delete spam as soon as you become aware of them. Do not respond to their comments.
* Use the Blacklist filter and update it regularly. Some words just don’t belong in blog comments.
* Turn on the nofollow option in your blog. Tell search engines do not give link credit to links appearing in trackbacks and comment. Smart spammers look for this and skip sites with nofollow since they won’t get any credit from their efforts.
* Install Akismet. It will help you filter out those nasty spammers.
* Let commenters type an authentication code. This may not stop spammers from leaving comments but it will certainly cause delay.
If all else fails, turn off comments. If you don’t have them, you won’t get spam. But then again, you also won’t get any good comments which is the joyful part of blogging.