Comments on: How to tell the difference between comment spam and real comments in your blog http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-comment-spam-and-real-comments-in-your-blog/ Seattle Small Business Web Design Tue, 15 May 2012 16:28:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tokiko Kinoashita http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-comment-spam-and-real-comments-in-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5983 Tokiko Kinoashita Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:12:52 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/?p=441#comment-5983 Thank you very much for your great tips. I am new to blogging. I was just attacked by 65 comments in this morning, and I finally suspected that most comments I had received were spams. They were like comments you described in the post. I have never used Akismet, but do you recommend it for a personal blog, too? I assume it is not a free service. Does it worth it? Thank you very much for your great tips.

I am new to blogging. I was just attacked by 65 comments in this morning, and I finally suspected that most comments I had received were spams. They were like comments you described in the post.

I have never used Akismet, but do you recommend it for a personal blog, too? I assume it is not a free service. Does it worth it?

]]> By: Jill Olkoski http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-comment-spam-and-real-comments-in-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5137 Jill Olkoski Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:01:53 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/?p=441#comment-5137 Hi Lea, Thanks for your feedback. Checking a commentor's website is another good way to see if it's legitimate. I also will look into my website traffic statistics and see what kind of keywords they used to find my blog article. I also check the author of the comment, and if it looks like a person, like "Lea", it's better than the name being "Red French Sofas" or some other bunch of keywords. Hi Lea,
Thanks for your feedback. Checking a commentor’s website is another good way to see if it’s legitimate. I also will look into my website traffic statistics and see what kind of keywords they used to find my blog article. I also check the author of the comment, and if it looks like a person, like “Lea”, it’s better than the name being “Red French Sofas” or some other bunch of keywords.

]]> By: Lea http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-comment-spam-and-real-comments-in-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-5135 Lea Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:23:54 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/?p=441#comment-5135 I found your method for determining what you called "grey" spam commentor's interesting. I didn't pay attention to personal or website email addresses in comments, but it makes sense. So I guess it's a good thing that I decided a few months ago that I didn't like leaving my personal email on comments and started using my websites email. My procedure has been to visit the commentor's website, especially if I wasn't familiar with them. For example, I recently got one that fell into the "grey" area except at the end of their comment, they said "thanks for commenting on my blog." After visiting their site, I accepted the comment as it was in my website's category. I found your method for determining what you called “grey” spam commentor’s interesting. I didn’t pay attention to personal or website email addresses in comments, but it makes sense. So I guess it’s a good thing that I decided a few months ago that I didn’t like leaving my personal email on comments and started using my websites email.

My procedure has been to visit the commentor’s website, especially if I wasn’t familiar with them. For example, I recently got one that fell into the “grey” area except at the end of their comment, they said “thanks for commenting on my blog.” After visiting their site, I accepted the comment as it was in my website’s category.

]]> By: Jill Olkoski http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-comment-spam-and-real-comments-in-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-4588 Jill Olkoski Fri, 06 Feb 2009 04:01:14 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/?p=441#comment-4588 Hi Katie, I only belong to StumbleUpon, and I haven't really used it in a while. When I did, I'd Stumble a single blog post, versus the home page of the blog. I would assume that depends on how the bookmarks work - I haven't bookmarked using anything other than my browser. If someone comes from that kind of bookmark, Web-Stat wouldn't show any keywords or referrer. The StumbleUpon traffic came straight from "stumbleupon.com". I don't know about MSN, Yahoo or Deli cious since I haven't used their bookmarking feature. You have traffic showing with your own blog URL as the referrer? Hi Katie,
I only belong to StumbleUpon, and I haven’t really used it in a while. When I did, I’d Stumble a single blog post, versus the home page of the blog. I would assume that depends on how the bookmarks work – I haven’t bookmarked using anything other than my browser. If someone comes from that kind of bookmark, Web-Stat wouldn’t show any keywords or referrer. The StumbleUpon traffic came straight from “stumbleupon.com”. I don’t know about MSN, Yahoo or Deli cious since I haven’t used their bookmarking feature. You have traffic showing with your own blog URL as the referrer?

]]> By: Katie Kay http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-comment-spam-and-real-comments-in-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-4586 Katie Kay Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:26:21 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/?p=441#comment-4586 Question...do you take the time to bookmark your blog onto all the sites that are available, ie...Stumbleupon, MSN, Yahoo, Del i cious, etc... If yes, has bookmarking sent traffic to your website and blog. How can you tell on webstat if a bookmark sent them to your site through a new blog post? I have traffic show up with my blog url as the source sometimes but no other info. about where they happened upon my blog. Thank you for the help Jill, ~ Katie Kay Question…do you take the time to bookmark your blog onto all the sites that are available, ie…Stumbleupon, MSN, Yahoo, Del i cious, etc… If yes, has bookmarking sent traffic to your website and blog. How can you tell on webstat if a bookmark sent them to your site through a new blog post? I have traffic show up with my blog url as the source sometimes but no other info. about where they happened upon my blog.
Thank you for the help Jill,
~ Katie Kay

]]> By: Jill Olkoski http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-comment-spam-and-real-comments-in-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-4504 Jill Olkoski Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:39:51 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/?p=441#comment-4504 Hi Quentin, I would strongly recommend Akismet on ALL WordPress blogs regardless of traffic - I activate it on every single blog I install for my clients. Forums get spam as well, you're right, and I believe that some forums (like SMF) do have plugins that are just like Akismet that helps weed out the spam. But I believe that forums might actually get more spam than blogs, but this opinion is based on one client who has both. The blog is much easier to manage from a spam perspective. No, I don't spend this much time typically - I did this just as an example to help other folks identify spammers who are pretty clever and look like "real" comments. Hi Quentin,
I would strongly recommend Akismet on ALL WordPress blogs regardless of traffic – I activate it on every single blog I install for my clients. Forums get spam as well, you’re right, and I believe that some forums (like SMF) do have plugins that are just like Akismet that helps weed out the spam. But I believe that forums might actually get more spam than blogs, but this opinion is based on one client who has both. The blog is much easier to manage from a spam perspective.

No, I don’t spend this much time typically – I did this just as an example to help other folks identify spammers who are pretty clever and look like “real” comments.

]]> By: Quentin Christensen http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/how-to-tell-the-difference-between-comment-spam-and-real-comments-in-your-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-4503 Quentin Christensen Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:35:26 +0000 http://aldebaranwebdesign.com/blog/?p=441#comment-4503 Thanks for writing such nice tips. I have a blog section up on my site, but luckily I don't get enough traffic to have to worry about spam but maybe in the future I will so I will check out your recommendaiton on Akisment. I used to moderate a forum for a student organization that had tons of spam and it was overwhelming just to deny all of the user registrations coming into my email. We never could find a good enough solution to solve the problem so we axed the forum. I hope you don't normally spend this much time investigating whether you should allow a post or not. Thanks for writing such nice tips.

I have a blog section up on my site, but luckily I don’t get enough traffic to have to worry about spam but maybe in the future I will so I will check out your recommendaiton on Akisment. I used to moderate a forum for a student organization that had tons of spam and it was overwhelming just to deny all of the user registrations coming into my email. We never could find a good enough solution to solve the problem so we axed the forum. I hope you don’t normally spend this much time investigating whether you should allow a post or not.

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