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Anti-Spam

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The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.
Akismet checks your comments and contact form submissions against our global database of spam to prevent your site from publishing malicious content. You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s “Comments” admin screen.
Major features in Akismet include:
<ul>
<li>Automatically checks all comments and filters out the ones that look like spam.</li>
<li>Each comment has a status history, so you can easily see which comments were caught or cleared by Akismet and which were spammed or unspammed by a moderator.</li>
<li>URLs are shown in the comment body to reveal hidden or misleading links.</li>
<li>Moderators can see the number of approved comments for each user.</li>
<li>A discard feature that outright blocks the worst spam, saving you disk space and speeding up your site.</li>
</ul>
PS: You’ll be prompted to get an Akismet.com API key to use it, once activated. Keys are free for personal blogs; paid subscriptions are available for businesses and commercial sites.

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

Nice

Great Plugin

Does the job

It's really good


There are many better ways to handle spam than this garbage. Indeed i with the false positive rate this plugin has it is worse than nothing


Worst antispam plugin


Akismet has been with me since I've been on WordPress and really doesn't miss when compared to other solutions. Keep up the great work!


Doesn't miss a shot


Works very well for basic users so they do not have to buy a paid one just to protect a small site.


Works very well for basic users

The best anti-spam protection to block spam comments and spam in a contact form. The most trusted antispam solution for WordPress and WooCommerce.

Umbrovskis.com

List of spammers in <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-referrer-spam-blacklist/faq/" rel="ugc">FAQ</a>.
No need for configuration! Plugin in background redirects referral spammer to blank page ( about:blank ). Redirect link can be altered via filter <code>wp_referralblock_redirect_uri</code>.
NO auto update, as we see that as possible as security hole. We do not wan’t Your site to get hacked.
Plugin is for sites that can’t edit their <code>.htaccess</code> or configure NGINX or Apache servers.
Via <a href="http://go.mediabox.lv/1LbSuKq" rel="nofollow ugc">my LinkedIN post</a>: Few months ago I started to collect referral spam pages in private file un bitbucket.org. Problem was that I did not know all spammers. Then, few weeks ago, I found that Matomo (Open source analytics) started their own “project”, and they did the same thing I did – collected referral spam sites to block them from Your website.
On my own server I do that at server level, but some of my clients have hosting, where You can not edit server settings. This week I came up with another solution – WordPress plugin “WP referrer spam blacklist”. I will update list every week from <a href="https://github.com/matomo-org/referrer-spam-blacklist" rel="nofollow ugc">Matomo’s community-contributed list of spammers</a>.
If You have WordPress site and no knowledge about or access to server settings, I made that for You!
From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer_spam" rel="nofollow ugc">Wikipedia</a>:
<pre><code>Referrer spam (also known as log spam or referrer 
bombing) is a kind of spamdexing (spamming aimed 
at search engines). The technique involves making 
repeated web site requests using a fake referer URL 
to the site the spammer wishes to advertise. Sites that 
publish their access logs, including referer statistics, 
will then inadvertently link back to the spammer's site. 
These links will be indexed by search engines 
as they crawl the access logs. 

This benefits the spammer because the free link improves 
the spammer site's search engine ranking owing 
to link-counting algorithms that search engines use.
</code></pre>
Other plugins by author: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/itempropwp/" rel="ugc">itemprop WP for SERP/SEO Rich snippets</a> – Add schema.org itemprop code to the (custom) post content for search engines and bots for better SERP results

WP referrer spam blacklist (fight 2040+ Referrer Spammers in (Google/Matomo) Analytics)

WordPress plugin to fight with 2040+ referrer spammers (like semalt, buttons-for-website and many more).

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection vs WP referrer spam blacklist (fight 2040+ Referrer Spammers in (Google/Matomo) Analytics)