Comments on: Spam Filter Free Day: Turn Off Akismet for One Day

By: Internet Hosting

Internet Hosting — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:09:02 +0000

What happens if you remove your blog spam filters completely for one day? By turning off Akismet, can you manage the huge spam that flows in? Participate in the Spam Filter Free Day and recognize how anti-spam tools are indispensable for the modern blogger.

By: QuickOnlineTips

QuickOnlineTips — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:51:58 +0000

Akismet is the single most important plugin. It crashed one day, and we had 5000 comments to review. Fortunately you can turn it on and check the comment queue for spam again.

By: Darren

Darren — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:16:10 +0000

If you’re a popular blog Akismet is a MUST in my opinion. That guy’s blog is small but ask Mashable guys how a day would look like without Akismet.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:33:31 +0000

It seems you did not turn off your spam filter as promised if not you would have probably received so many comments here.

By: Tanie loty

Tanie loty — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:05:30 +0000

I had the same problem – contacted akismet and they said it must be an internal issue of the blog as my website is not on any blacklist. I tried a number of other websites and they all didnt go through so maybe its an IP issue..

By: Bilety

Bilety — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:11:19 +0000

I have a friend that has the same problem – i think they just autoban a certain domain – esp if it doesnt have the same ending (com, co.uk, ie) that the blog has.. just irriating they dont have some sort of proper feedback on this.

By: belldandy

belldandy — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:35:26 +0000

Unfortunately, not all of the “spam” comments that Akismet catches are actually spam and could actually be doing you a disservice if you want your blog to eventually rank for any keywords in search engines. They may be posting to your blog mostly to create a link back to their own site, BUT people like myself who actually make informed posts on blogs instead of one liners like “nice post, lol” or just a random set of keywords are actually doing bloggers a service. By making an informed post that is actually related to the blog and the topic posted, people like me are trading you content for your site (since comment text is searchable) in exchange for a link back to our site. We help you, you help us.

As long as the comment is relevant and a decent post, it isn’t spam and actually helps your blog rank in Google or Yahoo or any other search engine when someone searches for your blog’s topic. Most people don’t understand this and assume that just because a link goes back to a commercial website, that the comment is to be considered spam and that isn’t true. This is why I don’t go around posting random things on blogs that I find; it’s always related and it’s always a decent sized post, never keyword stuffing or anything related to that.

By: Innovations & interesting Ramblings

Innovations & interesting Ramblings — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:57:16 +0000

Have you turned it off? but I don’t see many comments…It will be a real good test…

By: Liviu

Liviu — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:35:30 +0000

He has a point, but do you think that the spammers care about that? I don’t think so. They won’t stop spamming arround.

By: QuickOnlineTips

QuickOnlineTips — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:28:41 +0000

Jesper – In the WordPress Admin panel, go to Comments > Awaiting Moderation and find the “Recheck Queue for Spam” link on the top right.

One click weeds out all missed spam comments in a jiffy. Very useful in when Akismet outages occur.