Comments on: Is Akismet Wrongly Blocking Your Not-Spam Blog Comments?

By: Pol12

Pol12 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:29:39 +0000

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By: Blacklisted by Akismet – How to fix being banned and escape from Comment Hell

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:42:26 +0000

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By: Rickin

Rickin — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:02:24 +0000

I wish there was a way to view the blacklist. It seems to hit me quite a bit and I really don’t blog comment all that often.

By: David

David — Sun, 24 May 2009 02:09:09 +0000

If your running this program you are doomed. Akismet is blocking everything. Yes it does get some spam, but it gets alot of legit comments that have links to legit sites. I no longer run it because it ran several of my blogs search engine rankings into the ground. There are alot better spam blocking software out there. Just remember Akismet claims that linking to any site where spam is coming from is bad. This is not true. If your site is a blog and even if the comment is a one liner like nice blog, if it has a backlink to a relevant site with page rank it helps your SEO. Not to mention the traffic helps your alexa rankings. Google understands blogs and gives more credit for who you link to than comment content. Akismet denies this, but trust me unless you have a .edu, .gov or .mil this software will drive your traffic and SEO into the ground. Just do a search on Google and see how many people are going away from it.

By: Kai Lo

Kai Lo — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:49:11 +0000

I can’t comment on any WordPress blogs at all. Hopefully Akismet staff would get back to me soon.

By: drivelocity

drivelocity — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:35:03 +0000

Akismet has saved me from some massive headaches, BUT, I frequently have to sift through the spam queue to approve non-spam comments. It’s annoying, but has become as standard practice.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:48:31 +0000

oh dear, I have the same problem with akismet. Thank you for your information, it will help a lot

By: comp

comp — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:29:41 +0000

thanks, I’ll need to contact them as well…ugh

By: David Malka

David Malka — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:38:34 +0000

Hi
I have the same issue when leaving comments on blog and just did as you suggested. I contacted them and hopefully they will remove us from their blacklisted list as we are a genuine business commenting on post.

I’ll wait to hear from them.

Thanks for the great info.

By: SEOsean

SEOsean — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:11:40 +0000

Thanks for this post, I’ve been looking around and reading up on why my comments are not getting posted. I’ve had the issue before and went through the whole contact Akisment cycle. They where pretty nice and helped as much as they can.

Hopefully this comments goes through!! :)