Comment Spam We’ve all seen that comment spam is becoming a serious problem. Particularly on Movable Type weblogs, where the generated pages are all very similar in structure and semantics, spammers are abusing comment systems to increase their rank on Google. Even more frustrating than the spamming problem is the fact that there isn’t a simple solution that will work for everyone and that all options have their own sets of pros and cons. During the past couple of months, we’ve been throwing around ideas at Six Apart about the best ways to combat spammers. Readers of your weblog must register before posting to your weblog. Before someone can post a comment to your weblog, they must register with your site. For many webloggers, this solution is not ideal. Informal

Anti-Comment Spam Tactics What can you do to stop blog spamming? Below I have posted some methods that I have collected in the www. The layout is the following: first the description and second the links to the installation and documentation (always at the author´s website ? no copyright problems right?). I have tried to organize them starting from the easiest, GOOD LUCK! 1.Comment Spam Quick Fix from Burningbird’s. Easy method to start stoping spam in your blog. You add a hidden field to all of your comment forms and then MT look for that information when it processes the comment form. This simple process will eliminate most of bots spam comments (the most dangerous). You only need to modify the following MT templates: Individual data entry Comment Listing Template Comment