MBL Community: How To Create Fake Comment Forms To Trick Spam Bots

February 16th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

Today’s tip is a good one for all WordPress users who want to stop spam bots leaving spam on their blogs. OneTipADay has come up with a way of quickly adding fake comment forms in front of the real comment form that are only visible to spam bots. Because these spam bots usually only post spam to the first forms that they see, no spam will be actually left on the real WordPress comment forms. I’ve tried this out on this site and I fired off a few test comments and it definitely works.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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  1. #1

    Comment by Robert on 19 February 2007:

    What happened to Akismet?

  2. #2

    Comment by Everton on 19 February 2007:

    Their servers died - one of the risks of relying on an external spam service

  3. #3

    Comment by Robert on 19 February 2007:

    Contacted Akismet and relayed your message to them. Am sure they want to know as well as many Wordpress Akismet users. Will certainly relay there answer if they don’t personally respond to you. There blog is live, course I have no way of knowing wether the servers used for Akismet are, though it seems helpful that users would be notifed if they where down.

  4. #4

    Pingback by How To Reduce WordPress Trackback Spam | Connected Internet on 26 February 2007:

    [...] year I’ve made various changes to my blog to reduce comment spam (read more here and here) but finding an effective way to reduce Trackback Spam had eluded me. Adding SK2 meant [...]

  5. #5

    Comment by Drug on 6 November 2007:

    I have a real trouble with these spam boots on my drug site. They get there without any shame and fill the comment section up to the end. They are tricky for they adapt to my anti spam programs. Is there a very powerful one that can stop them?

  6. #6

    Comment by Everton on 6 November 2007:

    spam karma 2 is all I use now and it seems to do the trick

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