If you have a website that allows user comments, reviews or similar features, you will no doubt have been subjected to spammers at some point in time.

More so if your website is mature and well indexed in the search engines.

Im talking about these people who constantly add spam comments to blogs, spam product reviews and even spam emails through your contact form.

I’ve seen an increase in this kind of activity recently and was wondering if anyone else has the same problem?

What can you do to help stop it?

Well, if you run your website/blog using wordpress, simply use the Akismet plugin and they will stop most if not all of your comment spam.

But what can you do if you run bespoke applications such as e-commerce software or some other bespoke system? Well, unless your application has some functionality like Akismet, or you can build Akismet support into it, all you can really do is delete them when they come in.

Tagged : fighting spam

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