My blog traffic is increasing every month! It’s exciting. It means more people read what I have to say.

But it also means that I’m only more interesting for spammers who want to spread their link ads all over the commentaries, trying to sell their drugs, or online casinos or penile erection drugs, such as Levitra and Viagra. Oh… and let’s not forget the porn links.

You know, these comments that are vague and over praising like: “Great website! Bookmarked! I am impressed at your work!”

I had installed Bad Behaviour a few months ago, and it was working pretty well, filtering at least 80% of the spam the site would receive.
I was satisfied with cleaning the occasional spam comment that slipped through every now and then by hand.

Until recently.

I was getting at least 100 spam comments every day. There must have been a robot scanning all my blog entries and posting to every one of them. Of course, if it is the same text, it’s easy to get rid of it, but that, plus the other spam I got was making me waste at least 5-10 minutes daily. The situation would only get worse, thus I had to act upon it.

While reading some interesting tidbits over at ProBlogger, I heard about Akismet.

Akismet is a plugin for Wordpress (the platform I use) also available for other blogging platforms who allows comments to be checked by using a common server collecting all spam from bloggers, thus, if another blogger declares a comment as spam, all other bloggers benifit from it.

Since I’ve installed it two days ago, I haven’t had any spam slip through. I’m in heaven. Over 200 spam comments blocked.

What’s even better, Akismet automatically cleans the spam after 2 weeks. Awesome!

I’m using both Akismet and Bad Behaviour. They seem to work well together.

Try it. You won’t be disapointed. It’s easy to set up. You only need to oddly get a wordpress.com account, but you don’t need to use it. You only need the account to get a wordpress API number.

brem, extatic.