Comments on: WordPress Comments and rel=nofollow

By: david

david — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:27:38 +0000

You should add SpamTask to the list. I think it works best of all the anti-spam plugins.

By: Eddy

Eddy — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:09:39 +0000

How can 92% of comments be spam? If this is the case, why do we even keep comments on our blogs? And i know the no follow is to fix things, but I believe it’s still used by google. Let’s try :-)

Moderator: This was picked up as SPAM, removed the link and let it through :))

By: Prosperity Writer

Prosperity Writer — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:56:43 +0000

i would love to use akismet but i still need to register to WP.com to get the api key

By: Aarondude

Aarondude — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:51:30 +0000

I like Wordpress,it’s my kind of thing.I have my own blog on it.

By: lebanon

lebanon — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 01:04:42 +0000

thanx for this post,since my Akismet stopped,i’m getting much spam!

By: SEO Dave

SEO Dave — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:49:51 +0000

It’s working now http://www.bad-behavior.ioerror.us/download/

David

By: Jason Litka

Jason Litka — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:27:22 +0000

Nice post. I’m running Akismet on my site but lately I’ve been having 1 or 2 spam comments slip through per day and marking them as spam is messing up the RSS feed for my readers (it ends up showing everything in the feed as new) so I’ve been looking for something to augment it.

The “Bad Behavior” plugin you mentioned sounds like exactly what I want but the link is dead. Do you happen to have a copy you could post?

By: Recensioni Libri

Recensioni Libri — Wed, 16 May 2007 10:46:39 +0000

Hy Dave, thanks a lot: at the end I found this dofollow plugin http://www.semiologic.com/software/dofollow/ and I have installed it!

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 13 May 2007 19:57:00 +0000

Thanks for the post, I believe in moderation and filtering andnot penalizing good commentors because of a few bad apples.

Just a note: If you’re using Wordpress 2.1.2, removing nofollow is a little different.

Find the file…

/wp-includes/comment-template.php

and around line #48 make the same changes you have posted above.

Cheers !!!

By: Recensioni Libri

Recensioni Libri — Fri, 11 May 2007 07:46:52 +0000

I’m going to install the “dofollow” plugin: do you think it would be nice to start a “dofollow campaign” for all the blogs of the world? I wasn’t aware of this trick before, thanks.

By: Mostly Technical

Mostly Technical — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:30:53 +0000

Akismet does do a great job of filtering spam. I find that it works very well on my WordPress sites.

I’ve given up on Akismet for Drupal sites however. It really slows down the commenting process for visitors. I assume this is due to how it is implemented in Drupal.

I’ll try Bad Behaviour on your advice. I get so much spam caught by Akismet that I’ve given up going through it all looking for false spam.

I’m just looking into removing rel=nofollow from my blog. Part of blogsphere is supporting other blogs, and I think that rel=nofollow throws the baby out with the bathwater, and does nothing to reduce spam.

By: Steve Riehler

Steve Riehler — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:45:06 +0000

Hi David,

thanks for this very precise explanation for the various possibilities to effectively fight spam. We have had our share of spam and I have therefore just installed the updated version of spam karma which i found to be the perfect companion to akismet. Hopfully this will reduce the amount of spam we have experienced on our blog drastically, as it is very timeconsuming to clean out the comments-section by hand.

Thanks again,

Steve Riehler