No, don’t worry I’m not becoming crazy, I just reached another goal!

My blog is growing, it has just surpassed the first 1,000 spam comments. Let me explain you why I’m so happy.

Of course spam is a major headache, as you need to keep your blog spam free, but it’s also a great sign, because spam level is a great way to measure your blog’s popularity and to keep track of your progress.

It’s just as negative comments. The more negative – aggressive – offensive comments you get, the better you’ll be doing. Some guys just can’t stand with other’s success.

Anyway, talking about spam, here goes two quick tips to avoid spam:

How to avoid spam

1)      Using Akismet plugin: “Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not.”

I’d add to check for the comments taken as Spam by this plugins, as I’ve seen some legitimate plugins on it, but it works great.

2)      Setting a filter: If you want even more spam protection, you just need to set up a filter and add the words you want.

To do it you just need to go to Settings -> Discussions -> Comments Blacklist and start adding the typical spam words.

Be careful, as words matches. As an example, writing press will match with WordPress.

So, if you have a decent spam comment’s amount, tell the world about it, it’s another way to get popularity!

Waiting now to reach 2,000 comments.

Thank you all spammers for giving me another reason to keep blogging.

Thanks for reading.

PS. Should I post how to get spam comments?

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