Prevent Comment Spam from Damaging Your WordPress Website
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Comment spam is the bane of bloggers. It hurts the user experience, takes up space you need for other things, and can even adversely affect your ranking in the search engines. If you run a WordPress blog and feel like you're at the end of your rope due to comment spam issues, take heart. This article will show you how to make it a thing of the past.
Comment spam can now be found anywhere on the Internet. The most rampant is "blog comment spam," which mostly affects WordPress-based sites since this is the most popular blog publishing software used by small to corporate-level bloggers.
Sadly, even though Google introduced the rel="nofollow" attribute for hyperlinks in 2005, which prevents passing of link juice to those spammy inbound links, blog comment spam has not stopped. Indeed, you may noticed that it might be getting worse, depending on how secure your blog is against these types of issues.
This tutorial will do its best to educate WordPress users on how to prevent comment spam from infesting their own blog using the available tools and resources.
Effects of Uncontrolled Blog Comment Spam
The following are the effects of uncontrolled blog comment spam:
1. Decreases the quality of your website. Your great content is tainted with the stain of blog comment spam.
2. Reduces the quality of the user experience. Once you have lots of low quality comments left by spammers abusing your website's comment fields, normal visitors will get annoyed and distracted. Thus, they will most likely label your site as spammy, shorten the length of their stay, and much worse, will stay away from it for their own safety -- as those links may contain malware.
3. Breaks down your site in the long run. These spammers are using automated bots to make automated comments. Thus, if you notice it, they will start to eat the lion's share of your MySQL database. In the long run, if you continually ignore this, you might notice that your site is down, or you won't be able to post because your MySQL disk space has exceed its quota.
4. Can affect search engine rankings. One of the devastating effects of comment spam is its effect on search engine rankings and trust in major search engines like Google. If your site is infested with lots of spammy blog comments, it will lower the website's trust and authority in the search engines. Then it will start affecting your ranking until you will not be able to get a higher amount of organic traffic due to poor website quality (lots of spam comments that could affect the user experience).
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