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No this isn’t an announcement that I’m turning off comments.  I have gotten a few spam comments but not too many.

I’ve been perusing the Internet looking for other blogs to recommend.  Today I found several blogs that didn’t hold my interest so why would I recommend you waste your time and visit them.  I won’t…but I did notice something interesting.

Most of the blogs I visited today have turned off comments while I have not.  This blog is relatively new so I thought perhaps these blogs were getting a lot more traffic than me but upon further review that doesn’t appear to be the case based on Alexa ranking.  My Alexa ranking has climbed from about 1.6 million roughly 6 weeks ago to nearly 300,000.  That’s still not a very high Alexa ranking but a vast improvement over 1.6 million and climbing.

All the blogs I visited had Alexa rankings of 800,000 or more so it sure doesn’t seem like they’re getting more visitors than I am.  One of them even lamented that “despite using 2 spam filters” comments were being shut off.

I wonder what spam filters these bloggers are using.  I’m only using Askimet which I didn’t even know about.  It came with the default install and it seems to be working fine.  I did have to register for a WordPress API key.  I had to copy & paste that key into the plugin for it to work.  I wonder if others just have not made the effort to get a WordPress API key and for that reason are not using Askimet.

This should not be construed as an invitation for spam comments.  I figured at some point I would need to turn off comments but not yet.  So why do you figure others are getting so many spam comments and I’m not.  Any comments?

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    • This was written by Robert. Posted on Tuesday, April 17, 2007, at 12:39 pm. Filed under Blogs, Internet Business. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

    One Comment

    1. Jim wrote:

      I had comments off for a short while but turned them back on. The spam rolls in but I also started filtering certain keywords.

      Eventually I think the answer will be to modify the comment form to at least keep the automated bots at bay.

      -Jim

      Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at 9:53 pm | Permalink

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