3 Ways to stop your WordPress Spam

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As a blogger I get tons of spam comments in my website, I get over 50 a day and most of them are pretty similar, the reason why I get all this spam is because all those people want to get a backlink from my site seeing as my blog has the “Dofollow” attribute on all the links.
Here are some ways to stop the annoying Blog Spam.

1. Get the Akismet Plugin.
   Akismet is a WordPress plugin that will analyze all your comments and determine whether they are spam or not. Akismet is a very good plugin, one of the best I might add and it learns more about spammy comments each time you determine that a certain comment is spam. Akistmet is completely free and will stop ALL the spam that you are getting I usually get 50 spam comments a day and all those 50 comments are stopped by Akismet.
   Akismet also keeps the comments stored for you to moderate, so if it accidentally marks a real comment as spam you will have the option to moderate and put it in the safe comments section.
2. Block the commenter’s IP address.
   An IP address is a number that every computer has, it’s almost like a home address, no 2 people have the same home address.
   When somebody posts in your blog you can check their IP address as it will appear next to the username that they used to post the comment. When you see their IP address you should copy and paste it into a Notepad or any other text editor.
   Next open up you .httaccess file found on your Server’s “public_html” folder and insert the following code.
   
order allow,deny
deny from 123.456.789.910
deny from 123.456.789.*
deny from 123.456.*
allow from all


   What the code will do is it will block access to anyone using the IP “123.456.789.910” and anyone’s IP that starts with “123.456.789.*” and anyone’s IP that starts with “123.456.*” the “*” is the wild card symbol, it is not recommended to block all IPs that start with a certain number because you might end up blocking a lot of people that could be potential costumers.

3. Math Comment Spam Protection
   This plugin is great, although I don’t use it I still recommend it. This plugin will add a very simple math problem next to your comment form so that everytime a user wants to post a comment he will have to solve the math problem.
   This plugin will reduce greatly the amount of spam comments that you get because robots can’t figure out the math problem so their algorithm is stopped.