Previously, I did not know how to activate Akismet. Initially when I started this site, spam comments weren’t much of a problem. My site is not a popular site and I only started getting very little spam comments.
Then, I was away to Thailand for a month, and managed to prepare enough posts to be published on schedule. I was getting probably about 200 spam comments in a week the last I check once when I was in Thailand (normally I do not have easy internet access there).
But when I came back to Malaysia and open my mailbox, I got a shock- there were about 4000 comments per blog. And I have 2 blogs. If a blog like mine get spammed like that, I can’t imagine those of a famous blogger.
I knew I had to figure out how Akismet work: initially I could not get it to work because I do not know what is the API key and as such, could not key in the key to activate Akismet. In desperation, I search the net again and find the answer through this reference: http://akismet.com/personal/.
How to activate Akismet:
Go to WordPress.com, create a free WordPress blog. Upon creation of the blog, you will receive a welcome email from WordPress. The email contains the API key. Key in the key to activate Akismet.
After that, I only have to identify the spam sites and mark them as spam. Akismet will then search comments which also came from those spam sites and automatically remove the comments.
great post, wish i would have found this about 3 months ago when i was pulling my hair out to get this to work. Thanks agian.
Mark,
Thanks for dropping by. I know what you mean about pulling your hair out- glad you got Akismet installed. It is really very useful