Posts not related to my blog

  • wtfinsurance

    (@wtfinsurance)


    11 years, 11 months ago

    I’ve been getting comments on my blog, which are totally none-sense and obviously not related to my blog info.

    I have a feeling that someone has been linking my blog to their spam account, such as selling medication or something.
    So I keep getting lots of spam message or asking me how to make more money.

    Anyone can identify what’s my blog’s problem and how to solve this issue?

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  • Nate Reist

    (@natereist)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    It usually isn’t someone linking your blog to their spam account, more often than not it is the evil bots perusing the web looking for forms to spam, keeps them from getting blacklisted as spam but still gets the spam out.

    That being said, the important thing is stopping it. If you are using the standard comments template from wordpress you may want to look into getting a Captcha on it, there are several plugins that do this. A good one is WP reCaptcha.

    Alternatively there is a good plugin that will also help stop spam called Akismet. It comes standard with Jetpack I believe but it usually does the trick.

    Let me know if that helps.

    Thread Starter wtfinsurance

    (@wtfinsurance)

    11 years, 11 months ago

    Thanks for the tips.
    I did install WP reCaptcha.
    It seems the spam stops for couples of days, it now comes back again. And my email account got listed as blacklisted everywhere. My hosting company was able to fix that though.

    However, people still leave me message which is not related to my blog and request something I don’t provide from my blog.

    Any way I can ensure people read my blog at the right place with the right contents?

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