Do Not Delete SPAM!
Do not delete SPAM…yet.
What I’m talking about?
This may sound stupid but you’ve got to submit the spam to the web before hitting the “delete” or “delete all” button on your WordPress Comment Page dashboard.
Well, this post of mine applies only to all who are using Akismet on their site, either a blog or a corporate site.
I believe Akismet is the most useful plug-in/API ever developed for a blog. This is also the reason why it’s a default plug-in of WordPress, aside from the well known fact that the man behind Akismet is also the main developer of WordPress.
If you are a big fan of WordPress, you are using your Askimet, are you? If not, then you are missing the most important tool for your blogging battle.
What is Akismet?
In a very straight and simple definition – Akismet was developed to kill Spam.
That’s it. No more no less.
Some people call it ” The Silence of the Spams“. It kills spam in the background automatically without intruding your blog life.
So why did I tell you not to delete Spam? Because you have to inform Akismet that you’ve got a spam on your Comment Pending Page. Akismet cannot kill it unless you or other Akismet users had already submitted the ‘specimen’ of the spam.
This is how Akismet works. When a new comment comes to your site it is submitted to the Akismet web service which will test the comment if its a friendly comment or just a plain spam. This includes trackback, or pingback too.
Look at BlogDeManila Comment Page. Some comments look genuine but if you check the sites of those submitted URL, you will know that they are just purely Stupid-Pathetic-Annoying-Message or SPAM.
BlogDeManila Comment Page
If you see this really annoying comments or pingbacks, just mark them as “SPAM” to inform Akismet web service. Do not click on trash …yet.
Once you marked them as negative comment, they will be transferred to your Comment Spam Page. From here you can delete them permanently or let Akismet do it automatically. Make sure that you’ve chosen the option to automatically discard (or delete) spam comments on posts older than a month.
Akismet Option to Delete Spam Automatically
Akismet becomes more effective and intelligent the more you use it. So use it freely!
Is Akismet FREE?
Yes and No. Akismet is free for personal use and non-profit organization and educational institution. BUT, yes there’s a big but here, according to Automaticc ( the maker of Akismet), if your blog is earning more than $500 a month, then are you are encouraged to get a $5/mo pro-blogger Akismet API key.
If you are running a commercial venture in your blog or corporate site, then you must get an enterprise subscription for your company starting at $50/mo. The last thing that you want to see in your corporate blog are good old-fashioned pill, porn and Viagra ad comments, right?
You have a lot of better things to do than fight dozen and dozens of ever-changing, high-tech spam aliens.
Don’t forget your best, automatic laser gun is already in your arsenal. All you have to do is is activate, configure and use it. Forget that spam was ever a problem again. Hasta la vista, spam baby!
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We’ve used akismet and its very useful application for both personal and commercial application in stopping SPAMs and suchs.
you are correct, Kris. I hope that corporate bloggers and other commercial users of Akismet will support it financially.
by the way, I’m a member of PMTB.
Spam! I get a lot of these everyday! Good thing I have Akismet installed. By the way, thanks for checking my blog. It’s running fine now. I was able to get in and remove the encrypted code from my HTML. Hopefully the hacker won’t bother me ever again.
good thing i have akismet too. i get a lot of spam too, at least 5 a day. sometimes it reaches 30.
I have been running a couple of blogs on wordpress since 10 months but since three months, I am getting a lot of spam and truly speaking, I was not able to deal with that spammers. Now, I will apply Akismet on my wordpress blogs and my whole hopes for anti-spam of my blog are with Akismet.