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

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

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• 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

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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.
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How Spam Comments can Hurt your Website Ranking
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Best Ways to Prevent Spam Comments
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 doesnt use either of
these elements, the plugin can identify them
easily.
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• 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.

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