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January 11, 2007 by Lillie 

After bemoaning the many spam comments on blogs, I downloaded the Akismet plugin for WordPress … and I haven’t had a spam comment since! According to Akismet’s Web site, it is catching more than 600,000 spam comments a day, and 94% of all comments are spam. If your blog is being buried in spam, I recommend this solution.

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Comment by Evelyn
2007-01-11 19:27:59

My site has yet to be indexed, so no spam yet, but I’ll take your advice and install Akismet procatively to ward off the little buggers!

cool blog.

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Comment by Lillie
2007-01-11 22:16:01

Evelyn,

You’ll never know how many delightful comments you’ll miss: “I couldn’t have sead it better myself,” “keep it commming,” … not to mention porn, gambling, ‘replica’ purse and watches, and ‘pill’ ads!

Good luck with your new blog and with your goals for 2007!

Lillie

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Comment by Ronnie
2008-01-16 19:50:38

Lillie, I suggest you get the spellcheck plugin while you are at it!

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Comment by Brian from Photo Pillows
2009-03-12 14:19:51

Akismet has done it for me too – and KeywordLuv option is a nice way to keep a balance between motivating people and spam.

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Comment by Lillie
2009-03-12 17:07:46

Brian,

Not long after this post was written a couple of years ago, WordPress started including Akismet. I don’t know what I would do without it; the spam problem is even worse now, but Akismet does an excellent job.

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