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    How to Get Free Akismet API Key for WordPress Blog

    January 22, 2013
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    Akismet is one of those WordPress anti-spam plugins, which is not only essential but also highly recommended. Spam comments are nothing new, and as soon as your WordPress blog goes live, you will start seeing lots of spam comments which looks genuine. Akismet is one of the free solution to combat WordPress spam. It’s an official free plugin by WordPress parent company Automattic. Though, in past few months, they have made major changes in a way ...

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    A Huge List Of Spam Comments which Looks Genuine

    November 14, 2012
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    Spam blog comments is nothing new and many people uses mass commenting softwares which will help them to do a comment blast. At times, I get kind of comments which look so genuine that I find it difficult to unapprove it. Today, I got one such comments and seems like spammer forget to filter the comments and send out the complete list of spam comments. Here I’ sharing a list of such comments which look ...

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    How to Create Multi-Author WordPress blog for Guest Posting

    August 6, 2012
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    After 2012 SEO changes, guest blogging has become one  of the best way to generate genuine links. In this race, many Bloggers have enabled guest posting on their blog via Email, but when you are using WordPress, you can automate the process in the best ways. To make most out of guest posting opportunities,  you should enable guest post submission by WordPress dashboard. Here at ShoutMeLoud, I’m running a multi-author WordPress blog for more than 3 ...

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    WangGuard Plugin : Stop WordPress User Registration Spam

    February 21, 2012
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    WordPress user registration spam is one of those problems which I believe most of registration enabled WordPress blogs are facing. If you have a WordPress blog or BuddyPress and your registration is enabled by default, you might notice lots of spam users signing up every day. And if default permission for user level is contributor, you might get lots of posts for review and needless to say most of them will be spam posts.  Today, ...

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    Stop WordPress Spam Registration with Sabre WordPress Plugin

    July 31, 2011
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    These days almost every 1 out of 5 professional blog is offering guest posting and to automate the process most of them allow registration for everyone and one can submit post for review. Though this also created a problem for such blogs as spammers are using automated way to register and submit posts for review. In fact 2 weeks back I had almost 300+ registration in 48 hrs. at ShoutMeloud and almost 70 spam posts ...

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    Recaptcha Plugin- Fighting Spam comments & Spam Bot Registration

    September 16, 2010
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    This is a guest post by Vincent who blogs at TechAttitide. If you would like to write for Shoutmeloud, do read: Guest posting guidelines. Spams are the biggest bugs of any blog. Bloggers generally are compelled to deal with spam comments and even if the comment moderation is on, spammers find a way out of nowhere to insert trashy links to your blog’s comments. And many a times, it has happened to me that even ...

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    AVH First Defense Against Spam WordPress plugin

    September 10, 2010
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    Is your blog getting high traffic. Are you getting thousands of spammers on your wordpress blog ? You might be wondering after so many blogs on Akismet &  other antispam  plugins why I am writing this blog  ? Reason is to make  webmasters aware that these spammers not only throng your blog for spamming, but also eat up your server’s bandwidth & increase your CPU cycles. Moreover if  you keep track of how many visitors ...

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