{"id":43692,"date":"2020-05-23T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T06:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/?p=43692"},"modified":"2021-01-30T11:40:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T11:40:38","slug":"using-akismet-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-from-comment-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glassmountains.co.uk\/campfire\/using-akismet-to-protect-your-wordpress-site-from-comment-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Akismet to protect your WordPress site from comment spam"},"content":{"rendered":"
If your website is experiencing lots of comment spam, then there is an easy solution. But first, let’s understand the problem a little more.<\/p>\n
In general, you are looking for people to comment on your blog post articles, giving you feedback and ideas etc. However, some comments submitted on your website will not be from people who’ve actually read your blog. In fact, they won’t be from people at all!<\/p>\n
Many spam comments originate from blind, automated computer programs which are simply trying to push comments out onto websites.<\/p>\n
Rightly or wrongly the spammers see this as some sort of SEO or quick win method for generating traffic to their website, or for harvesting backlinks (comments typically allow for the person to link back to their website; an important win in the world of SEO).<\/p>\n
You can usually spot spam comments a mile off as, well, they just look a bit weird! E.g.<\/p>\n