After a weblog has been online for a while, it will start to be bombarded (literally) by robots attempting to insert links to shady sites into the comments system. On today’s internet, comment spam is as much a fact of life as traditional email spam.

Fortunately, many tools, techniques and plugins exist to combat weblog comment spam. Over the years, we’ve tried dozens of them, but we’ve never found anything as successful or as effective as WP-SpamFree. Install it, turn it on, and forget about it – no configuration required, and nearly 100% accurate.

Let us know if we can help install WP-SpamFree or enable other spam fighting techniques on your blog or WordPress-based publication site.

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