How to protect your WordPress blog from Spam

Posted by Abdul Rehman in Blogging, Wordpress On February 14, 2013

WordPress is the best platform for blogging ever. Everyone can be a blogger in WordPress. Because its gives a multi type features for all of us. Its free for use. A lots of bloggers from all over the world is currently and mostly uses WordPress. WordPress panel is very easy for use and have good features like you can install, Plugins, You can change its theme you can change its inside panel color and much more. In the blogging career you need to worry about spam. Because the search engines not like spam in any where. But for the backlinks people using the spammy methods to create their backlinks. They thinks it can be better for their blog or websites. But its not right because as my own commitment is that, Search engines hates Spam. Mostly peoples uses comments area to build there backlinks and spam in our blog. But WordPress have some easy methods which can protects you from the high Quality Spam. In my this blog i am receiving daily hundred’s of Spam comments. But not published that, that’s comments not have any sense. I just confused why peoples doing spam on my blog like this below,,,

In this comment you can see the long paragraph but it have no sense about my post which you can see on the right side of the Image, You can’t believe on it i am receiving daily minimum 100+ comments like this from all over the world…

Also Read : Some Important tips when you start your WordPress Blog

How to Avoid from Spam ?

Moderate Users and Guest Comments !

You should need to Moderate users and your visitor’s comments which can help you to protect from their personal attacks. Comment moderation is the best way to avoid from spammy comments, When visitor leaves a comment on your blog post, it will not publish instantly, 1st it comes for your review then after your permission it will approved and Published.

In the right side MENU bar you can see the setting TAB then go to >> Discussions and you’ll see screen like this below,

With this settings you can set your blog’s comments moderation setting for your blog safely run.

Akismet :

Akismet is the one of the best Plugin of WordPress which can help you to protect from spam. Its detects automatically spam and also bite that. Its a best plugin for every WordPress plugin. You can download this Plugin from here.

All Done !!