4 Surefire ways to get rid of Spammy blog comments In the past few years, the word "spamming" has created a buzz in the digital world. The most popular victim of this spammy process is the blog commenting system. A spammy comment spoils user experience on your blog. The main agenda behind these spam blog comments is to sell their particular products by pushing links of their websites. But these spam comments reduce the image of the blog and thereby is a troublesome issue. Here are four effective ways using which these spam comments can be prevented.
1. By putting comments into moderation :
One of the most popular method of preventing blog comments is by sending the comments for moderation before publishing it on the blog. When the comment is sent for moderation, a team of experts or moderators analyze whether the comment is relevant to their blog or is it just a spam. If they find the comment as spam, they reject it. Though the process is very efficient but requires some extra efforts and time. 2. By offering Captcha : Another approach of preventing spam blog comments is by offering Captcha . With Captcha users are asked to decode the distorted letters offered by Captcha. By offering Captcha, you can force direct human to website interaction before the comment is going live. Captcha codes are easily understood by humans but not by robots thus help in reducing spam comments to some extent. But with the invent of technology, hackers have developed several tricks for DeCaptcha using which bots can easily decode the Captchas. 3. By asking for user registration : By asking visitor to sign up to your website by submitting personal details, chances of posting spam comments can be highly reduced. Reason being after going through the complete trouble of submitting the details and signing up to your website, who is going to spam the community? Â Registration process solves the problem of spam blog comments to high extent but the process comes with its own cons. Long registration forms are quite a turn off for users. So what bloggers are supposed to do now? The answer is Social login. Read ahead to know how. 4. Offer social login : When you offer social login feature to your audience, you can filter out non serious users without asking them to go through lengthy registration process. With social login, users can sign in to your website with their social media accounts with just one click. Social Login also provides precious user profile data to businesses which help
them to filter out non serious user from their target audience. Social Login has proven to be a very efficient way of eliminating spam users from your website. Spam comments cause great damage to any blog. To get rid of this issue, start using the four tips mentioned above. The article was originally published at : http://blog.loginradius.com/2015/02/battlingblogcommentspam/