HostGator Top Webhosting with Free Blog
HostGator Click Here

 

How to Get rid of wordpress spam comments with bing.com, google.com, facebook.com or yahoo.com urls embedded

If you are running a wordpress blog with just a little traffic you probably get blog spam comments. Strange comments out of context and with bing.com, google.com, facebook.com or yahoo.com urls embedded. You may think what is going on here, right?

.. and you think how to get rid of these spam comments in the future and are looking for wordpress anti spam and how to stop wordpress spam.
Maybe you got here on this site because you were looking for a kind of wordpress spam block or a wordpress spam filter.

 

What are these special comments spam and why do they embed these urls?
These spam comments come from spammers testing your site if it is suited for future spam from them. These spammers never visit your site but use an automatic software to post thousands of spam posts just to test if the post is actually posted on your blog.

Once their post is approved by You and is posted on your blog, your blog will get spammed in the future with real spam links.
 
These automatic spam comments to wordpress blogs have two characteristics:
1.  bing.com, google.com, facebook.com or yahoo.com urls embedded
2.  a line of tekst of general and positive content. One word is intentionally misspelled.  

2 examples of spam lines with one misspelling

1. Okay I’m convinced. Let’s put it to actoin.
2. Well I guess I don’t have to spend the weekend fiugrnig this one out! 

 
My guess is that the misspelling makes it easy for the spammer to find the blogs they succeeded in publishing a post. 
Just try to do an exact search on google for one of these lines. Exact search is when you put the sentence in “quotes”

like this: “Okay I’m convinced. Let’s put it to actoin.”  copy this in a google search and you will get thousands of results, sites with that exact test spam line all posted by these automatic spammers.  

 
Is it possible to stop these automatic spam comments?

Yes, it’s very easy to stop this kind of spam. Just put a captcha on your comment form, that’s all.
There is a nice little free wordpress plugin you can install and it will stop the spam immediately.   

The plugin is called: WP-reCAPTCHA you know this from many sites and once installed on your blog it looks like this:

 

How WP-reCAPTCHA  works

When people want to submit a comment on your blog they must input the 2 captcha words manually.
People approved for a post before and you (admin) will not get this captcha.
Automatic comments cannot get through this captcha, it will need a human input. 

Of course this plugin cannot avoid spam from people visiting your site and manually input the captcha.
To prevent manually spam you could use Akismet plugin which will take most.  

 
So what should you do?

1. First of all, you should set all comment postings to get approved by admin, which means all comments are on hold until you approve them.  

in blog settings / Discussion.  In “Before a comment appears”

Check mark these two like this:

 

 

2. Install the reCAPTCHA plugin
 
In your wordpress admin Click on “plugins” click add new. Input the name WP-reCAPTCHA in search plugin. The plugin is on top and choose “Install Now” and activate.

Now in order for the plugin to function you need to get two keys: Public Key and Private Key  (just follow the instruction, it’s easy)

you will get this message:
“You enabled reCAPTCHA, but some of the reCAPTCHA API Keys seem to be missing. Fix this”
These keys are required before you are able to do anything else. You can get the keys here (you get a link)

Get the keys and input the two keys in the two fields and you are done. To see the captcha on the comment form you will need to log out, because it is disabled for admin when you are loged in.

Hope you enjoy your blog free from automatic spam comments. I got about 25 daily of these automatic spam comments to my blog and zero after installing this plugin!! 

regards Admin

.