Keep your blog safe from comment spammers

It’s obviously try that your create articles for your readers and they happy with your content. Now you need smile in your face. You created post for readers but if they don’t comment on your blog, it will really hard to know people like your post or not. In my previous articles I shared some way to increase comments in your blog posts, you can see it if you want. Now a day’s too many people doing spam comments for getting backlinks for their blog. But it’s too risky if you have spam comments in your blog posts. Google may see your blog like spammers and decrease your blog SERP (Search Engine Result Page). So we must need to avoid comment spammers and remove spam comments from your blog posts. Today I’m going to share some greatest way, how you keep your blog safe from comment spammers. Why you are waiting for, start reading and get knowledge about how to protect. 

Keep your blog safe from comment spammers:

Moderation:

It’s not fact what blogging platform you are using like Blogger, WordPress or anything. You can easily moderate your blog comments. It’s the great way to stop spammers to comment in your blog post. If you are getting too many comments in your blog, it might be hard for moderate all comments. But this is one of the greatest ways to stop spammers by you. Then your blog will be safe for sure and Google may see your blog friendly. J

Policy of comments:

It’s also an effective way to stop spam comments. If you have not much knowledge about comment policy, you can see copyblogger page. What you need to do? Just create a page of your blog about comment policy and type all rules how to comment, when will your comment disapprove and etc. You can simply get more knowledge how most popular blogger’s create comment policy page. Hope this will help you a lot to keep your blog safe from comment spammers.  

Spam filter:

As I shared above two strategies to stop spammers, you can use that in every blog platform. But now if you are using Blogger platform, you can’t use this steps. Spam filter is a plugin for WordPress platform. They are giving the plugin by default. It’s too easiest way to see all spam comment. Because this plugin will catch spam comments and move to spam folders. You can easily delete all spam comment by one click. This plugin will save your time and keep your blog safe from comment spammers.     

Captcha:

I've seen some people are using BOT, software, tools for commenting in blog posts automatically for increasing backlinks. It’s all black hat methods and you must need to avoid it. You are using captcha option in your blog for avoiding spam comment. Most of tools can’t break captcha and comment in your blog. So it’s a plus point to keep your blog safe from comment spammers.  

Don’t avoid rude language:

If you get negative feedback or comment in blog comment, don’t disapprove the comment or don’t delete it. You must need to approve the comment and make discussion. You can see more people will come to the comment and discussion with all people. It really helpful for engage your blog community. So don’t be afraid if you get negative blog comments in your blog posts. Some readers will need to know more about your topic or something you publish wrong. They will comment and try to tell you to fix the post. So it will effective for your blog.

Reply your reader’s question:

As I already told if someone give you negative comments in your blog posts. Just reply to them and fix the problem via conversation. Also don’t forget to reply their comments who ask some question to you. How fast your reply to their comment, you will get good and faster benefits from readers. If your readers don’t ask any question, you can also wish thanks or reply them for comments. It will increase your blog comments count.  

Guest authors:

If you are using WordPress CMS platform and you have guest authors in your blog or publish some post in your blog. You can easily add your author’s email address in your platform. When you get comments in guest post, a link will automatically go to your guest author’s email or inbox. If you see your guest author don’t reply to your readers comment for some reason. Then don’t worry, you can support your guest author and reply to them. It will more effective way to avoid comment spammers and make a big discussion. Make sure you always support your guest author, because they are your “guest”. J     

That’s all. I hope you can follow all those strategy if you are getting too many spam comments in your blog post. If you have any question about this topic or post, don’t hesitate to ask. Cheers.