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How Do I Stop Spam Comments Going on My WordPress Website?

Spam comments can damage your website quality and credibility if not handled properly. From identifying and preventing spam comments to blocking them, you can do a lot to safeguard your website and brand.

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How Do I Stop Spam Comments Going on My WordPress Website?

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  1. How Do I Stop Spam Comments Going on My WordPress Website?

  2. One of the most common SEO-damaging factors for your website are spam comments. Ignored, or left unchecked, spam comments can damage your content strategy, affect your search engine rankings, and damage your brand credibility.

  3. A professional website design Widnes agency can help you prevent and manage spam comments by enabling appropriate WordPress in-built features and installing reliable plugins

  4. What are Spam Comments? A spam comment is software-generated content posted on blogs, websites or other online platforms. Spam comments are generated automatically and contain promotional content, or links to websites that are irrelevant to the platform on which such comments are displayed.

  5. How Spam Comments can Hurt your Website Ranking

  6. What Spam Lowers Content Quality Comments on your website or blog are seen by search engines as part of content. Quality content is what search engines swear by, while ranking websites. When they find spam comments with purely advertising content, the trust factor of your website gets reduced instantly.

  7. Spam Damages Website Credibility with Inappropriate Keywords Spam messages are more likely to contain inappropriate keywords such as adult terms, or terms related to gambling or drugs. Presence of such keywords makes your website or blog look suspicious to search engines.

  8. What Spam Links Reduce Link Quality and Website Rank he kind of websites you are linking to is important to convey credibility to search engines and your readers. With spam comments, you could be unknowingly linking to websites with adult or other malicious content, which damages your website credibility and lowers search engine ranking.

  9. Best Ways to Prevent Spam Comments

  10. Screen your comments to prevent automated posts using a CAPTCHA test Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) tests require users to enter a CAPTCHA code, which usually consists of distorted characters, which humans can type but automated comment-generating software cannot. You can set a hierarchy for CAPTCHA settings by specifying who all will need to pass the test - for example, you may want the test for only anonymous commenters and not people on your subscriber list. A professional website design Widnes agency can install a CAPTCHA plugin from reliable sources so that your website security is not compromised.

  11. Block anonymous comments An anonymous comment is one that does not display author name. If you have been getting many spam comments, the best solution is to block such users. A professional website design Widnes agency can guide you block comments by integrating Honeypot technology, a proven method for blocking spam comments. This technology uses hidden forms to make spam bots reveal themselves.

  12. Use reliable WordPress plugins to identify spam comments There are plugins such as Akismet, which help you keep spam comments at bay. Akismet is pre-built in WordPress, but you have to to enable the plugin for it to work. There are several anti-spam WordPress plugins that you can use. Install plugins from reliable sources to ensure optimal plugin performance. Unreliable plugins with faulty codes can make your website hacking-vulnerable. A WordPress-specialised website design Widnes agency can help identify and install reliable plugins.

  13. Use cookies specialised for spams These plugins work by sending an image or stylesheet to users who access the comment section. Spam software or bots do not usually use an image or stylesheet as they are programmed to post spams on a maximum number of sites in a short time. If a browser downloads the image or stylesheet sent by the plugin, then the user is considered valid. As a bot doesn’t use either of these elements, the plugin can identify them easily.

  14. Spam comments are inevitable, but, they are not impossible to prevent. With a professional WordPress web design company to maintain your website, you can prevent costly spam consequences.

  15. Contact Us Blue Whale Media LTD 631 Birchwood Boulevard, Warrington, WA3 7QU. Tel : 01925 552 050 Website: http://bluewhalemedia.co.uk/widnes/web-design-widnes

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