2 major ways of detecting and dealing with spam comments on blogs

I don’t need to talk much on what spams are, as you might have known by now. Today, many blogs have gone down as results of spams related issues, so the issues pertaining spams on any section of your blog shouldn’t be taking in any way with kid’s glove, as the big web movers like Google and the rest do; they have always been strong fisted on blogs/websites that are found wanting on spam related issues.

Starting from today, if you have always been care free regarding the issues of spams on any portion of your blog, this is a wakeup call for you to have a rethink and set up things right so you can easily escape from the sledge hammer of these web movers.

Though, there are different cases of spamming in the blogosphere, but today we will be concentrating on spam comments and the 2 major ways of detecting and dealing with them.

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The comment sections of every blog are very important parts of blog where lots of things happen, therefore internet movers for example; Google always put their monitoring radar on that portion of blogs, in that it is even a parameter for blog ranking.

This section of blog can either lift a blog or bring the blog down within a twinkle of an eye. 

Often located at the bottom of blog pages, the comment section is the environment where blog owners and visitors interact and share thoughts together, give credits and discredits, engage in arguments and learn together thereby adding more values to already written article.

In fact it is the community section of every blog, located close to the bottom of a page yet is an eye catchy area of most blogs.

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Every bloggers love comments on their blogs, because it sometimes tends to show how interesting and engaging a blog is. But a situation where as a blogger and out of your love for comments you then embrace and allow genuine comments to thrive together with spammy comments, then I tell you that you are in for a long thing.

Therefore, easily detecting and dealing with these spam comments can save you a great deal from that long thing.

Though, sometimes it is not easy detecting these spam comments, if you follow today’s piece very well, you will end up detecting and dealing with spam comments on your blog easier.

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Now we will be highlighting the two main steps or ways of detecting and dealing with spam comments. Without wasting time, there we go;

= => For those on blogger, blogger has included a spam filter option on the comment section of your blogger dashboard. I know that lots of folks usually tend to pay less attention to this section of their blogger and some don’t even know a thing like that exists even as conspicuous as it is.

When you visit the comment section of your blogger dashboard located at the left hand side, clicking on the comment option will bring other options with Spam option inclusive. Now, clicking on the spam option, you should see lists of spam filtered comments that have even been published by you without knowing they are spam comments.

You can select them now and delete them from your blog, and when you do that, any reply(s) that are associated with the comments will also be deleted from your blog and it is highly recommended you do that to keep the comment sections of your blog spam free.

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= => The second method of detecting those spam comments, even before publishing i.e. for those that set up comments moderation or even if you didn't set it up, when you see spam comments, you should be able to detect that they are spams… See how to know;

There are always special characteristics of spam comments. You can even decide to use this opportunity now to check out the comments sections of your blog to ascertain what I am about telling you.

Spam comments mostly start by eulogizing and making the original author of the article happy and end up referring you to another page mostly the advertiser page. Again, just try relating spam comments to topics of discussion you will notice that they are always off points without anything relating to the topic being discussed.

Now, whenever you see off topic comments like that, know they are spam comments and it will pay you to delete them as quickly as possible. Most of them are bots that have been programmed by companies to help them in advertising their products whenever similar topics on their products are being discussed.

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With the above methods of detecting spams, I believe you can now detect spam comments on your blog and deal with them appropriately. Don’t ever wait for Google sledge hammer to hit you first before curing spams on your blog comment sections.  “To be fore warned is to be fore armed”.

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