Akismet – Love It Or Hate It
Remember back in the day when bloggers had trouble optimizing to accept there comments because your inbox was filled with over 1,000 spam comments. Those were the days, and we all remember them so easily. Sometimes it would take over a whole week to delete all of those unwanted comments. Spammers would leave a ton of links on a page to increase there search engine rankings. It’s so funny because in those early years we didn’t know exactly what they were so of course we would delete them all to keep our websites, also known as blogs from looking like trash or subsequently penalized for inheriting links on our blogs, therefore renaming us as link farms. Actually, this really helped a lot of blogs bring in tons of traffic form different sources. Then came Wordpress bringing the solution to many problems we have with comments not to mention a hindering problem let me explain what I mean.
To Hate Akismet (The Hindering Problem)
We all know linking out to many websites, and blogs are one of the best ways for us to rank high on the search engines. Individuals who work at home have the grand opportunity to build real business ranging in different markets of there expertise. Building blogs, and selling products of these blogs are some of the best benefits you can hold in the field of online business ventures. One of the greatest ways in history of online marketing is SEO (Search Engine Optimization) which is not the only way to gain traffic on a blog, but a free way to take advantage of what’s hot on the market in helping people find what they need at the same time target that particular market with keywords. Backlinks are a big part of the factor of making it to the top of the search engines for your keyword through anchored text links.
Commenting on blogs is a supreme strategy for gaining backlinks. In a way, this is an unethical way of gaining backlinks because many know the idea or reason for some comments you post on there blogs, especially if you are using a keyword. Commenting on hosted wordpress blogs are cool, but if you use your keywords for a link back to your blog a little bit too much you will get caught by Wordpress Akismet only if it is enabled by the administrator of the blog, and mark you as spam. This will cause your comment to get blocked for any kind of Wordpress hosted blog that is Akismet enabled for a number of weeks sometimes for good.
The thing is…..not all comments are just the benefit for search engine increments for your keyword, but some really do use real comments at the same time gain a real benefit from volunteering in a conversation. Although this is a good way to build links for a blog it will be wise to look into different techniques in link building not just because your comment will fall into the Akismet spam filter eventually, but to expand your ideas on how to look for quality links.
To Love Akismet
Akismet is a wonderful tool to have enabled on your blog for a administrator point of view. With Akismet enabled individuals would now have the ability to block unwelcome comments by spammers that only leave links in the post. There have been wonderful reports that the software has blocked hundreds of thousands of spam comments from different blogs. The great feature about Akismet is everything is done automatically without your preservation which saves you a ton of time of to do other important things than worry about deleting spam. The software does it for you by detecting possible comments that may be spam. The comments that pass the parameters of Akismet can pass through either to moderate status or instant approval depending on the administrator. Akismet has it’s good and bad points, overall Wordpress has provided us with a solution to stop spam.
Til Then My Friends,
Jermaine Pleas
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i think it’s best strategy to enable akismet plugin for spammers and than dofollow the links in comments to encourage comments.
Akismit is no doubt the best plugin available for bloggers to help them in dealing spam comments on their blogs. It is specially very important for those bloggers who maintain multiple blogs but wants to encourage comments with a dofollow link or a top commentators plugin – it obviously saves their precious time by automatically keeping out spam. Being a software it does have its own drawbacks but it is the best available. Thanks for the informative post – it cleared some of my doubts about Akismit.
well i think everything has their own advantages and disadvantages so it’s depend on us that how we use that.
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You’ve made some good arguments, but I’m sure there are people who will disagree with some points.
Ive read something about Akismet and I would like to share this:
“What we really want to know is how good is Akismet at figuring out what is spam and what isn’t it. It can fail to two ways. The first way to to let items that should have been marked as spam through, we’ll call that a miss. The other way it can fail is to identify a valid comment/trackback/pingback as spam, lets call that a false hit. So here is the break down for the last 31 days with 1600 plus pieces of spam processed via Akismet:
1. Misses: 23 (~ 1.4375 percent)
2. False Hits: 3 (~ 0.1875 percent)
I hate it
People have been asking why their comments were falsely identified by the system as spam. Since Akismet is not open-source and owned by Automattic, the algo and codes have not been seen by the public. We know the general idea but specific triggers are unknown.
Fab post, thoroughly enjoyed reading it. I definitely agree that Akismet is a great advantage and disadvantage for blog comments.
Thanks for sharing!