Comments on: Akismet Kills 50,000 Comment Spams http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Thu, 20 Jun 2013 10:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Comment Spammers Never Stop, Even When Your Blog is Down « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-1005662 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 21:14:56 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-1005662 […] Akismet Kills 50000 Comment Spams […]

]]> By: WordPress Anniversary: WordPress and Evil « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-1002123 Tue, 11 Jun 2013 03:56:06 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-1002123 […] added an odometer to the WordPress Comments panel keeping score of the number of comment spam. Mine read 50,000 comment spam caught since October 2005. Once after two weeks of traveling, I came back to my site to find it had […]

]]> By: WordPress Anniversary: Comment Spam Lessons « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-989586 Sun, 12 May 2013 05:59:00 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-989586 […] Akismet Kills 50,000 Comment Spams […]

]]> By: foolswisdom http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-84362 Fri, 24 Nov 2006 22:59:13 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-84362 Looks like you hit 100,000 today!

]]> By: I’m Winning the Battle Against Comment Spam « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-68327 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 07:21:29 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-68327 [...] Akismet blows away thousands of comment spam weekly on this blog. Recently, Akismet’s total comment spams fought off since it was installed on this blog hit 50,000 caught comment spams, and a few days ago, I found it caught 1399 comment spams in one day! That’s impressive comment spam fighting stuff. [...]

]]> By: Greg Balanko-Dickson http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45980 Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:40:51 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45980 I moved away from WordPress (stupid move I know) for awhile to try Joomla and had to close comments altogether as no one had a decent comment spam system. So when I set up my blog again, I purchased a Pro Blogger Askimet annual subscription. In 14 days it caught more than 1,500 spam comments with no fallse positives on three of my blogs.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45735 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:04:58 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45735 Again, I’ll repeat myself. The number of comment spam you get is not related to your blog’s popularity. Some days my main site gets 1-2 comment spams if any. Other days, I will suddenly have 160 in two hours. There is no predicting and it has no relationship to an increase, decrease, or anything with my blog traffic.

Comment spam bots do follow incoming links from other blogs them have spammed, so the more incoming links you have, whether or not they bring traffic, can increase your comment spam numbers. The more intrasite links you have can also increase your comment spam numbers as comment spam bots move from post to post through your site leaving crap all over the place.

I’ve had no comment spam in two or three months on my main site except on two posts that got hammered repeatedly. I finally closed comments on those two posts and the comment spam stopped for a while.

How they choose, why they choose, and what goes on in their demented minds is something I haven’t yet understood.

By the way, I recently ran across a blog (not a WordPress driven blog) with over 50 comment spams on one post marketing all things sex, casino, and drugs. It read like my Akismet spam catching panel. I jumped off that blog immediately, even though I know they had information I wanted to read. I didn’t want to read a blog with an author who didn’t care about their readers enough to remove the comment spam.

]]> By: Scribbler http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45731 Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:06:12 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45731 I’ve only killed 2 spams since I installed Akismet last week. I guess my blog just isn’t very popular. Sob.

]]> By: Greg http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45153 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:54:04 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45153 I’m currently pushing 550,085 spams killed…

]]> By: Alistair http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45149 Fri, 29 Sep 2006 13:47:30 +0000 http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/akismet-kills-50000-comments-spams/#comment-45149 I clicked past 21,000 filtered spam messages the other day, such an amazing product.

Al.

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