Have you ever experience being flooded with anonymous comments? If yes, then chances are you have been a victim of comment spam. As with everything on the Internet, spam had also evolved. They are no longer limited to email. Today they can infiltrate and cause havoc in your blogs and Web sites, on which you allow user to leave comments. Comment spam is becoming a serious problem nowadays, which needed to be resolved immediate.
Just what are the reasons behind comment spam? Well, it is to increase their, or in the case of those so-called professional spammer their clients’, ranking in search engines. You see today, in ranking pages most search engines consider how many other Websites have linked to it. Thus, by leaving comments on your site the spammers’ sites can achieve a slightly higher search engine ranking.
So what do you do? Well, first things first do not take it personally. There are two approaches that you can use in order to stop comment spam. The first one is to learn how to tell the difference between spammers and regular users.
Now this would involve require your posters to identify themselves. This would be an extra step included...