Summary: What is WordPress comment spam, how do they do it and how can you stop it?I remember when I got my very first comment on a blog.It was flattering; I was beyond chuffed.I was over the moon to think that someone found my site so fantastic that they stopped what they were doing just to write me a nice little note in the comments."Hi, great post and I love your blog. Can you tell me what theme you are using? I wish mine looked as good."Only when I looked at the links to a viagra site did I realise that this was spam. Nice spam, yes. But spam nonetheless.Quick NavigationWhat is WordPress comment spam?Why does comment spam exist?How do they do comment spam?How can I stop spam on my WordPress site?Stop comment spam with built-in WordPresstoolsAkismetComment settings to help limit spamLimit links in a commentStop WP comment spam with your own Comment BlacklistStop WP comment spam with comment spam pluginsStop WP comment spam with moderationIn more detail - getting technicalConclusionSourcesWhat is WordPress comment spam?Spam, in general, is an unsolicited digital message. It can be commercial, malicious or used to try and gain traffic for another site (see below). You'll recognise it as unsolicited advertisements ( something you didn't ask for trying to sell you something)links to malicious websites orgeneral abusive information.WordPress comment spam is a comment on your WordPress blog containing such a message.Why does comment spam exist?A lot of people have asked me why spam exists and I understand it can be tricky to see why people do it. What possible gain can there be? Well, as usual with abusive behaviour online the main driver is to make money. How on earth can anyone make money from WordPress comment spam?Well, for one thing, they will (hopefully) get a click back to their website.They certainly won’t get one from me but with millions of posted comments they’ll definitely get some. That means more traffic to their site.But the main goal is totrick Google!Links from other websites back to your website are an important ranking factor to Google. If you have lots of these “backlinks”, doneproperly, Google thinks your site is more popular. Thus, Google might rank you higher. A higher rank means your site will come up in search results more often. That means more visitors to your website. If you get more visitors to your website you will make more money. Presto.Google are continuouslyfiguring out ways to detect these fake links. Of course, the spammers are, too.How do they do comment spam?Actually, it’sreallyeasy to send spam. There are tools available that will do it for you, tools like Scrapebox or GScraper. (No links to them.) They'll find the websites and... You are listening to the topic about "How to deal with WordPress Comment Spam", if you want to read the full article, please visit https://geniuswp.com or the link in the description.
