Protecting my blog from SPAM messages

Do you have akismet enabled in your wordpress blog account?

No...How Akismet can help?

Akismet blocks all the spam comments. It's free and you just have to install it.

I get some 2000 spam comments every month. Akismet automatically filters all the spam comments. I don't even have to do read them. For the matter of fact I don't have to do anything.

Ditto... Akismet is awesome for spam whacking.

Get it here: http://akismet.com.  You need to get a WordPress key and then activate the key while in your wp-admin dashboard of your blog.

Also, do not have the word "admin" as your user ID. It is highly prone to hacking. 

true that, and there are other ways to stop hacking. Try the Wordfence plugin for Wordpress. 

As others already suggested Akismet, here is another option.

You can also use Captcha which shows distorted image of random words, letters or numbers which the user has to input to be able to comment on the page. This disables automated scripts (majority of spam) to be able to add a comment on blogs. Some Captchas are relatively simpler like using simple Maths (2 + _ = 5) and easier for users, but still difficult for scripts to ascertain. 

However this could in a very very small way reduce user experience. Majority of them do not mind, as Captcha has become more of a norm. 

To avoid the irritating captchas , you can go with interactive captachas : http://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/interactive-captcha 

that is a good one :)

Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin is far better than Askimet. In 3 days of using GASP I went from 1500 SPAM comments to 7!Here is the direct link: http://wordpress.org/plugins/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/It should stop 99% of all automated spam bots.Let me know if you have any more questions regarding comment spam.

Regards,

Amrik Virdi

Hi All,

Thanks for all your replies. Really there are so many things to learn...

Partha