Comment Spammer bots are getting smarter nowadays and it can break through Akismet checking. The content of the comment is really look like a real human comment but the fact is spammer bot is always a spammer bot. Humans are always smarter and clever than a bot no matter how smart the bot is although human does make mistake sometimes. It is simply mean spam bots can be catch 100% with our experience in blogging and a powerful tool we can use like Akismet plugin. A few simple steps on how to identify a spam comment bots are as below :
Installed a spam blocking plugin like Akismet
Akismet can block most of the spam comments up to 95% and the smart comment can break through Akismet’s tracking. We will need to manually identify it and mark it as spam comment.
Spam comment usually irrelevant to the topic
If your topic post is about making money online but the spam comment about good traffic tips you have provided. The difference of topic and comment post can be seen by our eyes clearly.
Spam comment that uses our human psychology
Some smart comment didn’t want to mention something about your topic post in order to make sure the comment does look real. Example like “Great post. I have read your other posts and subscribe in my Google Feed Reader. Looking forward to reading more from you in the future”. We can do a search in google and similar comment contents are exists everywhere in other blogs.
Spam bots website content don’t have a good quality posts
Most of the time, their website content don’t have much posts and just a few post. Usually the topics are mention about how much money they make online with good testimonials and asking people to join or trying to promote their products online.
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this information helped me a lot – nice outframe of things.
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omg! I am new here but I love it. My buddy told me about it.I will definitely keep coming back.please keep up the great posts
)Whenever I can contribute something worthwhile I definitely will. Nice to meet everyone.I needed this info. I will apply the techniques to stop spammers on m blog…THX!!!!
I think I need to install Akismet again. I am still trying to understand the effect of such comments on SEO ranking for my blog. Thanks for the nice to the point explanation.