Note: This post was written previously and has been updated with new information. You may (or may not) know that you can automatically send comments left on your website to the spam list if they contain certain words. I have been maintaining a list of words that I have gathered over the years and been […]
Is It Real, Or Is It SPAM?
I have written a few posts about illegitimate comments left on your website (Fake Blog Comments, as an example), the importance of removing them, why they are left, and how to identify them. Those posts get a lot of hits from people coming to read about them. Invariably, I get asked questions about those ‘fake’ […]
Stop WordPress Spam comments with G.A.S.P
I was doing an interview for Jenny Munn (http://jennymunn.com/) today regarding “do follow”, comments, SEO, and some other things. One of the questions was, “Do you have to monitor spam more closely or is Akismet still catching most of it?” I am sure that you are aware that Akismet is the plugin that comes installed […]
Fake Blog Comments
In continuing with the SPAM theme from the post SPAM and Your Blog, I want to discuss how the spammers leave comments on blogs, specifically, your blog! I have seen many blogs that have comments that ‘look’ like comments, but in actuality are spam comments. Take a look at these actual comments left for on […]
Epsilon Email Address Breach
If you are like me, you probably received an email or two (or more) talking about the Epsilon Email Address Breach. Not sure if this is true or not? Unfortunately it is. I wanted to share a write-up that a co-worker wrote that explains what this all means. I asked for permission to share this […]
