Comment on WordPress SEO Nofollow by SEO Dave.

WordPress Comment SPAM Plugins Hey Megan,

Difficult to say as this blog had the highest SPAM rate of all sites I own put together and then the others don’t come close (have quite a few WordPress Blogs as well). When I made this post Akismet had caught almost 4,000 SPAM comments, now it’s at 6,067 so 2,000 SPAM comments in 3 months!!

Relatively speaking that’s an increase, but it could be because the site is more popular since adding free WordPress themes with AdSense and SEO optimisation included. So the increase could be due to popularity.

I have noticed one spammer to my blogs, presumably owns gameburn.org (that’s the SPAMMED link) and daily I’m finding thought out SPAM that at first got through. Turned out he/she has been copying content from other sources (forums) and posting it as comments for backlinks.

Looks like all the posts are getting filtered now, so Akismet has learned this poster is a spammer.

Had the posts just been to this blog I might have believed it was targeted since I removed the nofollow, but it’s on other blogs with the nofollow still part of comments. So though SPAM might have increased I’ve not noticed SPAM that’s not automated which was my only concern at trying this. Still early days though.

David Law