How do you stop SPAM messages on your WordPress website?

It is a common technique of bots and malicious for SEO or search engine ranking. Spamming your carefully crafted blog full of posts that don't make sense and do have a link in them to a website. They use this link to create backlinks to their website. This is a sneaky way to increase your results in search engines because it is seen as popularity of the spammer's website.

Having your entire blog filled with SPAM not only looks unprofessional but also dangerous. It can also be a way for dangerous malware or virus websites to be spread. This is something you must prevent at all times. You can also be blacklisted by Google and have your website taken offline with the familiar red page.

Enough reasons to arm yourself against this.

But how do you arm yourself against this on your WordPress hosting website? You can do so with a number of plugins that are especially designed for this purpose and that we will discuss in this blog post. These plugins recognize SPAM messages and stop them in an early stage.

Akismet

Akismet is the best known SPAM prevention plugin and is in most cases already available when you install WordPress at MijnHostingPartner.nl. This because it is already bundled in the WordPress installation. How Akismet works is as follows. A message is placed under your blog post. After this the message is filtered by the Akismet server which has a large database of known SPAM messages and formats. Only then is the message approved and posted. Known SPAM messages are listed and can also be approved by you if it was a false positive.

Activating this is a matter of logging into the Akismet website and providing your API key in the plugin.

Other plugins that protect against this are:

• WordPress Zero Spam
• AntiSPAM Bee

With AntiSPAM Bee you also have the ability to block different countries from posting and even filter by language. We recommend to take a moment to compare the three plugins and make the decision yourself which one suits you best. The three plugins mentioned are all free to use.

With the Managed WordPress hosting of MijnHostingPartner.nl we will work with you to protect your WordPress website from spammers and malicious users. Sign up now on the Facebook page if you want to be part of the first testers for this!