WebHugger

Google’s Panda update has been implemented worldwide a few weeks ago. The whole objective of the Google Panda update was to eliminate low quality content. However many website owners who were affected feel they have been victims and do not fall in the low quality content category.

I posted an article last week on how to build links with free blog posts. I was surprised to see comments flowing in for that post. However, while reading those comments one by one I noticed that most of them were not relevant to my post.  Also, there were repetitive comments on the same post from the same person. So, I doubted and went to my Google analytics account for that blog and verified that most of these were not search visitors and they were merely WordPress comments spam. More than 90% of these spams looked like they are automatic. Now that I had a job cut out to stop these automatic spams to save my time moderating them, I browsed through some literature. There are many ways to prevent WordPress comments spam, but I am listing some of the simple items that can be done easily and that could save a lot of time for moderators.