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How to Prevent Spam Comment Bots Attack

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How to Prevent Spam Comment Bots Attack

Have any site? Of course you have, at least you have one Wordpress Blog, if you don’t have it, you will not read this post When we do blogging with wordpress or any else generator, our first enemy were SPAM COMMENT BOT. This is software or script that automatically submit comment in your site with fake email and lots of hyperlink to their (spammer) site. Frankly, this will not harm your website rank, but it will make you angry to deleting that spam comments one by one.

How to Prevent Spam Comment Bots Attack?

There are three way that i know (at least for this time).

1. Using Akismet

2. Using Captcha

3. Using Anti Spam Comments Bot

Let me describe it one by one.

—Akismet—

This plugins were great!, it have nice job to prevent spam comment to show inside our post. But this still make us angry, because those spam comments not deleted instantly!. It will moved into “SPAM Comments Area”, and will deleted after certain time (30 days). If bots that attacking you were only lays 10 Comments each day, in one month you will only get 30 spam. That’s were easy bro! This condition will no harm at all. But, i got another experience for this, and this is a bad experience!. I use LIMITED hosted service for my wordpress blog, and Spam Comments that i got for one month is more than 3000!. What is the effect? Those spam comments eats my storage!, and it force me to get SUSPENDED by my hosting service, because my disk space were FULL!. Shit! This condition force me to deleting all of those comments if i want my site to run again. In this case, those AKISMET were USELESS!. So, when you use limited hosting space, and got too many spam comments, DO NOT USE akismet!

—Captcha—

This plugin will instantly blocking spam bot to lay comments in your site!, because spam bots could not read the captcha characters. (Captcha plugin force your visitor to re-write the characters that shown as the “key” to put comments.

So, is this the best way to avoiding spammers attack?

Nope! )

I also had bad experienced about this captcha plugins (may be i choose the wrong captcha plugins). This is the story : Last day, i using Captcha Plugins to PROTECT this site from spammers attack. It works great, because i got no spam comments at all in one month! (actually, no comments at all). I assume that this plugin were works perfectly. Few days later, i got message from my friend (from email) that he cannot put comments in this site!. WTF!!! So, i check it, and i try to give comment to one of this site post. Shit!, It’s true!. I cannot put my own comments also. Then i try to de-activated this Captcha plugin. Then, my site works perfectly.

I am not judging that all captcha plugins were bad, maybe i choose the wrong ones!, but something that i believe, if i activating captcha plugins, maybe some of my visitor were disappointed, because they have do read and re-write those character. Especially when those characters that show up were too hard to recognized.

—Anti Spam Bot—

Today, Best Garage Door site and Repair Foundation Info site were protected by WP-Captcha Free Plugins. This plugins job were blocking spammer bot to commenting in our site without showing any character that force our reader to re-write it (if someone wanna commenting our post).

So, i think that this plugins were the best!, at least it suitable for my style. Two points that i bold in this plugins : one – It will not giving trouble to real human to commenting my post second – no spam bot will successfully lay their egg inside my post.

Interested to using this plugins?

get it on www.wordpressthemetutorial.com

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