Though wordpress is one of the best platform for blogging, spam comment is a painful thing for wordpress. If you create your site in wordpress, you can see a lot of comments comes everyday on your site. 99% of those comments are spam.
Where these spam comments comes from?
Some webmaster do spam commenting to increase their website’s link popularity in bad way. Most of the spam comments comes from auto commenting software. They are not real visitor. By auto commenting software, Robots come your your site and create duplicate and spam comments and post their website’s link.
Are the spam comments harmful for wordpress SEO ?
Real and related comments are SEO friendly. but spam and unrelated comments are very much harmful for a site. Spam comments harms your site in many ways. Here are some example :
Firstly : Blog readers read comment because a post doesn’t contain all things related to that posts topic. Readers sometime create question related to that topic to understand that topic. When your site have a lot of spam comment, blog readers will leave your blog immediately which is harmful for your site.
Secondly : Search engine will find such duplicate comments in many site and mark your site as spam. Your site will marked as link farm and the pagerank of your site will go down.
Thirdly : It also harm your web hosting. You may think how? . OK . Spam comments comes from robots which are not real visitor. You will not get get any benefit from those visitor, but you will lose some valuable brand with. A lot of spam comments comes everyday. They will also fill up hosting space.
How can I protect my wordpress site from spam comments? :
We have learned that, spam comments are really harmful. Now we learn how we will protect our site from spam commenting. We can easily stop spam commenting by follow any of the following tips.
Using Captcha:
Robots cannot read captcha. So you can use captcha under the comments section to protect spamming.
Downoad the following captcha plugin
Then upload captcha folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Then Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Using Facebook commenting system :
If you use comment system using facebook comment plugin, spam comments will stop coming on your site.
To add facebook commenting system, install the following facebook comment plungin on your site.
Download facebook comment plugin
Block comments by adding code in .htaccess file :
You should do this process if you have experience in cpannel, and knowledge about editing and adding HTML codes. Otherwise, your site may corrupt.
Go to your root directory of your site using Cpannel of ftp. In the root directory, you can see .htacess file.
(before doing the following process, backup the .htaccess file. )
Edit the .htaccess file and add the following codes in the file.
# Protect from spam comments
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} POST
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} .wp-comments-post.php*
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !.*xyz.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ^$
RewriteRule (.*) ^http://%{REMOTE_ADDR}/$ [R=301,L]
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