Stop Comment Spam On Your Blog

Posted in Tools | On 18th February 2010 | 10 Comments

As most bloggers know comment spam is highly annoying and can make your blog look really unprofessional and look somewhat unmaintained.

There are a few hosted online services that can rid you of your spam, and when used with a good solid Captcha can almost eradicate it all, leaving you with actual responses and replies.

Below are a few great services that are free to use and do an incredible job with limited work for yourself.

Akismet

Free but requires an API to use, can be used as a plugin or coded into your own site.

Defensio

Again is API based but it has plugins for you to use.

Mollom

Has free an paid options, the free package is quite generous.

TypePad AntiSpam

Only for Movable Type and Wordpress at present, but other platforms to be covered soon.

McBonio

McBonio is a full time web designer, blogger and general web lurker. He runs Tropica Web Design, which is a web agency based in Liverpool, UK. You can also catch McBonio at Twitter: @mcbonio

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10 Comments

  • Ileane
    February 18, 2010

    Hi McBonio,

    Akismet is really great. I haven’t tried the others, but I heard Defensio is good too. Do you know if Mollom can be used on Blogger?

  • McBonio
    February 18, 2010

    I’m not sure to be honest Ileane, it has plugins for Joomla, WP etc.. and some developers libraries., can see anything about blogger being supported.

    (I might be wrong! ;) )

  • Extreme John
    February 19, 2010

    There’s a few on the list I haven’t seen, I wish there were a better spam comment manager plugin to make going through spam comments much easier.

  • Cheap Web Designer
    March 28, 2010

    I like akismet.

  • Web Designer Nepal
    March 28, 2010

    I am using Akismet and I am satisfied with that.

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