Spam is not restricted to emails anymore. Spammers have left their mark on virtually every area on the internet. Spammers now use blogs to pursue their end goals. Blogging is a great way to share your thoughts with the world. It is rapidly gaining in popularity as more and more businesses take advantage of it to market themselves. Unfortunately, there are scrupulous people who want to spread spam through blogs.
Comment spam is something most bloggers are familiar with. Most spammers leave comments on blogs in an effort to accumulate backlinks for their sites. Others, however, have more malicious intentions – such as infecting your computer with dangerous applications. Once you click on the links contained within the later category of blog spam, your computer becomes susceptible to spyware and adware. The spammers can gain access to your personal information that is stored in your computer and can also use your system to carry on their nefarious activities without your knowledge. Spammers make use of automated bots to find blogs that will permit comments.
To counter the menace of spam, Wordpress, a popular blogging platform, makes available a plugin known as Askimet. This is automatically provided in Wordpress installs and is highly effective in combating spam. This plug-in comes with a 'learning ability'. If spam gets through the filter all you have to do is to simply mark it as spam so that the program becomes more efficient in recognizing it. Also, if a legitimate comment has been wrongly marked as spam you can despam it. This will train the software and it will get better at detecting spam mails. These preventive measures enable bloggers to worry more about contributing quality content as opposed to fighting spammers.
It is important that you’re carefully selective in choosing who can and can’t comment on your blog. You can change settings to allow only registered users to comment on your posts. This will significantly bring down the spam that is spread by spam bots. These precautions will help save you a lot of time which would be otherwise spent deleting spammy comments. You will also be able to market your goods and services without any hassle. Spam comments are one of the most disturbing phenomena that are found online. These comments not only deface blogs, but they also make the future of the world wide web appear more bleak.
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