2 Great Plug-ins to Help Prevent Blog Spamming

September 5, 2009 · Filed Under Blogging 

Happy Labor Day weekend to all my US readers.  It’s the end of the summer and time to get geared up again and get down to the business at hand.

stop blog spamBlog spamming us annoying. You now what I mean — the ridiculously spammy comments that people leave on your blog, some of which can be downright crude.

Another problem many bloggers face is spammy user registrations.  Most bloggers  grant their readers permission to register freely on their blog and are then plagued by fake users automatically created by spammers.   These fake user registrants often have a “.ru” email suffix.

Unfortunately, it’s something that all bloggers have to deal with.

It can take a lot of time to manually go through and delete spammy comments or fake user registrations.  I have found 2 great Wordpress Plugins that have halted these spammers in their tracks.

  • Akismet – A plugin which identifies and blocks comment and trackback spam on blogs.  It is available for use with Wordpress, Yahoo, and other blogging platforms.

  • Sabre – Sabre is an acronym for Simple Anti Bot Registration Engine. It’s a set of counter measures against spam registration on your blog.  In its simplest form, Sabre allows you to include  a “captcha” in the user registration form.  There are other, more complex conditions you can place on user registrants, but usually the simple captcha solution works fine.

You can install both of these Plugins on your Wordpress blog simply by going to the Plugin interface and searching for each of these plugins by name.  You will then be able to install each plugin directly from your blogging site.

Here’s to keeping the World SPAM FREE!

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