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4:47 pm
November 15, 2011
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ultimatesmartmoney
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Starting this week, I have been getting a lot of spam comments from yahoo.com, google.com, bing.com, and facebook.com and leaving short one sentence comment. Does anyone know why? Do you know if these visitors are actually visiting my website and leaving this strange comments? Right now, I go into spam folder and just delete them one by one but is there a better way to deal with this issue? Thanks for your help!
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6:55 pm
November 15, 2011
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OneCentAtatime
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I think you got recent PR upgrade. Its nothing but "SEO Experts" checking out if your comment filter is turned off. If you let one in then you'll receive a barrage of genuine backlink creating spams. Till you had no PR no one wanted to create a link on your blog, now since you are PR1, backlinks from your blog has value.
I think most of us who got PR upgrade are seeing an increase spam numbers. It's natural in the SEO world, we have to live with it. If its too much to check in spam folders then apply captcha.
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8:15 pm
November 15, 2011
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Sustainable PF
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install GASP plugin. problem solved.
i've been advocating this alternative to askiment for a long time. It works, its easy – check out my site for the lil' check box that confirms you're not a spammer.
I get VERY little spam – maybe 10 a month?
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8:18 pm
November 15, 2011
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The College Investor
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GASP has been great at reducing spam!
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8:56 pm
November 15, 2011
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Eric – PersonalProfitability.com
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I use Akismet + Conditional CAPTCHA. It works like a charm for me.
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9:27 pm
November 15, 2011
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Dominique Brown
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3:48 am
November 16, 2011
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Tony Chou @ Investorz' Blog
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Sustainable PF said:
install GASP plugin. problem solved.
i've been advocating this alternative to askiment for a long time. It works, its easy – check out my site for the lil' check box that confirms you're not a spammer.
I get VERY little spam – maybe 10 a month?
Completely agree. Most of this spam is from robots, and GASP blocks out all the robots, so the spammers will have to do things by hand.
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4:55 am
November 16, 2011
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MoneyBeagle
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I've seen GASP all over the place so I figure it has to work. I usually miss the box at least 33% of the time just by not looking completely :)
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5:33 am
November 16, 2011
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MoneyIsTheRoot
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I use GASP as well…and I used to get that exact same type of spam leaving those generic URLs…it will solve your problems.
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7:19 am
November 16, 2011
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OneCentAtatime
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GASP is good, no doubt. Don't you think GASP is very easy to crack? It only takes a couple of lines of extra code in the blaster script to tick a checkbox.
People would do that if GASP is used at large. Or am I missing something?
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8:16 am
November 16, 2011
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Miss T @ Prairie Eco-Thrifter
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I use GASP and Akismet and it works really well. No issues with Spam.
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9:42 am
November 16, 2011
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TightFistedMiser
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I tried GASP and still got lots of spam. Right now I'm using a combination of Askimet, GASP, and Conditional Captcha and that seems to keep the spam down to about 10 a day. I'd like to use less plugins but before using all three of these I was getting pages of spam comments every day.
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2:26 pm
November 16, 2011
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Jeff @ Sustainable Life Blog
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I had this problem a while back – people suggest to install GASP and I did, unfortunately that didnt stop mine.
I now have GASP installed, as well as "conditional capcha", and those two in tandem have basically gotten rid of the issue
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4:38 pm
November 16, 2011
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ultimatesmartmoney
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Thanks everyone for your help. I will install GASP immediately. I saw this on many blogs but did not know what it was called.
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9:03 am
November 19, 2011
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maria@moneyprinciple
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I use Bad behavior – works; I used to get spammed by loads of porn selling sites but no more.
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9:41 am
November 22, 2011
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Jeffrey Trull
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I've never used Akismet really.
I use the WP-Spam Free plugin and it works great! Probably along the same lines as what everyone else is talking about, but I never even have to moderate comments with it.
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9:35 pm
December 4, 2011
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Larry @ The Skilled Investor
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Akismet works fine. It does not matter why you are getting comment spammed or whether the spamming process is manual or automated. All it is garbage, and the objective should be to spend as little time on it as possible. I used to scan Askimet's spam file for legitimate comments, but found that its screening was pretty faultless. Now, when I see a couple hundred spam messages a day, I just empty it without looking.
By the way, most of this comment spamming is probably automated. Your site is just another entry in a spammer's database. These spammers never seem to check whether their spam comments actually get posted. That would be real work and take their time. Instead they just set it up and press the button and the garbage flows in endlessly.
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11:48 pm
December 17, 2011
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Super Frugalette
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Askimet sends all of my spam into a spam folder. I just check and delete. I think one or two of the 100 of spam were real comments.
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12:34 pm
February 23, 2012
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moneysmarts
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Just seeing this thread now, but thought i would share this post I wrote about how I fixed my mega spam problems:
http://www.moneywithablog.com/…..ress-site/
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2:10 pm
February 23, 2012
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MainstreamMom
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I had the same problem… I installed this plugin and stopped it at once:
Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin
Very simple plugin that adds a checkbox to the comment form requesting that the user clicks it to prove they are not a spammer. Bots wont see it so their spam comment will be discarded.
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