Stopping Spam In its Tracks
As returning visitors have figured out, I changed this past July 4th weekend to running BurningKnife on WordPress – it had started to become quite the spam magnet under Drupal – and I hasten to add that there’s nothing wrong with Drupal – it’s just easier to manage this site under WordPress. It seems that I really don’t need the extra power of Drupal.
But I wanted to sing the praises of Akismet – one of the first WordPress plugins I always install – and it’s really getting a workout here on Burningknife – in just two days, it has buried 96 pieces of spam… all without any intervention on my part. Perhaps this just goes to show how popular this site had become for spam purposes… I even caught one SEO firm in India trying to check up on some spam comments that they’d submitted (saw their request in the search referrer)
Well guess what folks? I’m still a dofollow blog, I’ve even added Keywordluv and the Top Commentators sidebar widget… and with a homepage rank of PR4 – this site can add quite a bit of value for your keyword linking stratagy – but I’m going to demand something valuable from you – your time. You have to take the time to make a comment personally – no robots will get past Akismet, and any that do still have to get past me.
But right now, as of the date I’m writing this – any comment at all that’s accepted will get a sitewide Top Commentator’s link! So if you’d like a PR4 link – by all means, jump in and comment on any of my posts… get the ball rolling. Just be aware that your comment has to get through two hoops – Akismet, and me.
Backlinks are the key to getting your websites noticed by Google – to get them on to page one. I’m happy to trade a good backlink to your site in return for some great comments… But I will no longer allow my site to collect garbage, since I’m also interested in providing a great website full of interesting information – and spam simply doesn’t fit the bill.
Comments anyone?
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WordPress should be commended for making Akismet a default plugin. Without Akismet, it’d be difficult to have a clean WordPress blog. On top of Akismet, I also usually install one or two more Spam prevention plugins. The math question and answer plugin is a favorite one. Just in case Akismet fails to catch a rogue spam, there is another spam slayer standing side by side Akismet.