If you are a webmaster you usually know what spam is. Blog owners experience spam usually in the form of comments, trackbacks or pings that spammer use to place links to their content on websites. These spammers can be classified as three different types. First the manual spammer who researches blogs in the niche and [...]
Free Anti Spam Plugin Antispam Bee For Wordpress
Up until recently we have been using the Wordpress plugin Akismet for anti spam protection. Akismet is supplied with every Wordpress installation and needs to be enabled with an api key that is freely available after registering an account at the Wordpress website. There have been a few problems with Akismet’s anti-spam scanner in recent [...]
reCaptcha: stop spam while helping to digitize books
Spam is a pain and we all got used to the necessity of fighting it every single day spending our valuable time on deleting junk mails and undergoing additional security measures like captchas and many others. Is there any way to transform daily wasted time and effort spent on these measures for good purposes instead of regarding them as a necessary evil? You bet there is.
Comment Spam without URLs
I have seen the topic make the Digg frontpage and I was wondering why it exactly did make it. A little bit of common sense which every webmaster should have is all that is needed to know what this new spam preparation comments are all about.
If you do run a website you might have come upon comments that are posted that contain one sentence saying something unrelated but positive about the website or webmaster. Those comments can be clearly identified as spam because they do not add to the discussion or article in any way.
