{"id":1008,"date":"2011-09-13T11:20:38","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T09:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:08:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T10:08:03","slug":"spam-comments-on-my-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2011\/09\/spam-comments-on-my-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Spam Comments on my Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I get about 15-20 spam comments on my blog every day. \u00a0 Most are the “Thanks for that Awesome posting, it saved MUCH time” variety. \u00a0 They usually have a link in them to anything from Viagra ads, penis enlargement, cheap homeloans, to how to get student aid. \u00a0 I am currently doing an experiment to see many of the “thanks for that Awesome posting spam I get as a percentage of all the spam I get. \u00a0 My gut tells me that the “awesome posting” spam is about 50% of all the spam I get. \u00a0 I have recieved 31 spam comments in the past two days and 18 of them were the “awesome posting” comment.<\/p>\n

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I use the Akismet <\/a>plugin to stop spam. \u00a0 It is an excellent program and for personal blogs you get a free activation key. \u00a0 It stops almost all my spam and because of the way I have discussion set I have to approve every comment the first time and then a person can comment without me having to approve it. \u00a0 It is the only way\u00c2\u00a0I have found in the four months I have been blogging to avoid being overwhelmed with spam.<\/p>\n

I will probably do an update on this in a week or so. \u00a0 What is amazing to me is that this blog is not extremely high traffic, I only get between 20-30 visitors a day, and I still get so much spam. \u00a0 I would love it if I got as many legitimate comments as I do spam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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