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Spammers will try to post their spam anywhere they can and in recent years, many of them have taken to posting to blog comments, providing no useful comment. This can be extremely frustrating to the blog owner who must then wade through these worthless postings to remove them. In most cases, these spammers are using special scripts that search the web for the posting page of a blog and then automatically post the spam to as many blogs as possible without ever having seen the main page of the blog itself.

Luckily, blogging software improves all the time and it is now much easier to block unwanted posting to a blog. Some blogging software make use of simple forms that require the commenter to enter a series a letters of numbers that are displayed before the comment will be posted - since the vast majority of the auto-commenting scripts cannot fill in these fields properly, this method works well to blog the spam. Other methods may use a simple question that must be answered before the comment will appear, and, again, the spamming programs cannot handle this so the spam does not get posted. One of the most popular blogging software programs is WordPress, which includes special programming that attempts to identify spam by the number of links contained within the post. There is also a plug-in available for WordPress that automates this detection process and make sit very easy to get rid of these unwanted comments very quickly. Legitimate comments will still be able to be posted though, so this can be a real time-saver for the busy blog-owner.

Though setting your blog to require moderation on all comments may cut down the number of people making legitimate comments on your blog, it will certainly give you the control to avoid the spam completely. It is more time-consuming though, so the use of the automated tools such as described above can save you a lot of time and frustration.

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