Protect Your Website From Spamming
Spamming is one of the biggest headaches for a webmaster and online marketer . Everyone knows that spamming is done in different ways such as email spamming, web traffic spamming, forum spamming, spamming by blog commenting, and many other ways as well too do so. Spamming can be conducted through automated software or could be an individual human hand.
Spanners can obtain addresses through various online methods. More sophisticated spamming is known as phishing which involves unsolicited emails that appear to be from real and trusted companies, such as banks, shopping sites, payment services, and many more. For protecting your website or a WordPress hosting blog from issues, it’s very necessary to protect your website before it’s too late.
Some solutions can be done to protect you from spamming.
A. Make sure your content management system script is always updated to the latest stable version.
B. A good option available online is the ReCaptcha plugin for WordPress. Install a captcha plugin to get protected from spam.
C. WordPress has a program preinstalled against spam – Akismet.
Before you install Akismet on your blog, you need the WordPress API key with you. If you are registered on the official page of WordPress. You will get an API key in your WordPress dashboard. If you do not see the key, you must register on the official blog of WordPress . Once you get registered with the website, you will receive a welcome email as well as your API key within your e-mail. Then the below-mentioned procedure is how you can proceed further.
How to activate Akismet for your blog:
1) Go to your WordPress Plugins admin -> installed.
2) Select the Enable option to get started with the Akismet plugin.
3) Click on Enter your WordPress.com API key (you can also click on the Akismet Configuration Plugins section)
4) Enter your WordPress API key.
5) Options Click Update.
6) If you type the correct API key, it will be confirmed.
After activating the plugin Akismet will keep your blog from spam. You can find the blog comment spam. You will also get the flag spam blog comments section within the admin area.
D. You can use the WordPress plugin known as “Project Honey Pot” to get protected or to stop online comments from the doubtful IPs.