With Akismet, Spam is Toast
September 14, 2007 | Category: TECHNO-NERD
If you’ve ever scrolled down to the bottom of my sidebars, you’ll notice a little blue box with a number. I was quite surprised when this number jumped from 13 to 54 not too long ago. Someone’s been busy, I see. As of this post, Akismet, my spam zapping widget, has prevented 56 spam comments from posting on my blog, saving me much time and aggravation.
I was rather curious to see what these spam comments actually looked like as most of them were just automatically erased. The other day, to my glee, 5 landed in the Comments section of my dashboard, waiting for approval or deletion.
Here’s an edited sample of a couple:
“Midnight Bed” wrote:
You’ll notice that Nancy Reagan never drinks water when Ronnie speaks — Robin Williams
“Master Foreigner” writes:
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas I’ve only ever had one — Albert Einstein
Not what I expected. A bazillion links pointing to the usual organ enhancing, miracle drugs for less, or whatever else they’re selling websites. The funny thing is, these two posts both came from the same IP address, and the website they listed weren’t actually websites but other types of files. I suspect this is the reason they were marked as “possible spam”.
If you have a blog and don’t allow comments for fear of spam, give Akismet a try. It’s easy to install and a breeze to use. Personally, I like it when I’m able to post comments on websites or blogs I visit. Comments allows your voice to be heard, allows interaction between the reader and writer, and encourages repeat visits.
ON ANOTHER NOTE, I’m trying something new that CHESSNOID told me about. It’s a viral link. No worry -there’s nothing to be afraid of. It’s not a virus or anything malicious like that. It works on the same concept as you telling two friends, and they tell two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on. It’s supposed to increase your Technorati Authority rating. If that’s something you’re interested in boosting, and you run a blog or multiple blogs, just copy and paste the tag below and add yourself to the end.
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YC
on September 15th, 2007Thanks for the link love, alilsumptinsumptin!
Nice blog you’ve got here I like the colour 
alilsumptinsumptin
on September 15th, 2007Glad to share the linky love, YC! Thanks for your comment and for stoppin’ by.
CHESSNOID
on September 15th, 2007Thanks for including me. Hope it works good for you.
alilsumptinsumptin
on September 16th, 2007Thanks Chessnoid, it’s already worked. I jumped from 6 (lol
) to 11 in just a day or so. By the way, I like all your puppies. 
mahdi yusuf
on September 16th, 2007thanks for the link back i hope you guys visit us again! the monkeys are alive with joy! subscribe we did!
alilsumptinsumptin
on September 16th, 2007Thanks for visiting and subscribing! We’ll do it again soon. Glad the monkeys are happy.
WOOF! 
david
on September 21st, 2007Thanks for the link back!
david’s last blog post..Threatening Marketing
alilsumptinsumptin
on September 21st, 2007