Akismet Doing the Job  

Akismet Doing the Job

As part of my recent DoFollow sojourn, I discovered an excellent spam fighting tool already contained in WordPress: Akismet.  This was an excellent discovery, since my spam cleanup activities were loosing the battle – badly.

Akismet Key

Akismet Key is Key

As a simple plug-in, it installed easily and only took a step to activate.

 WordPress.com provides users with an API key that allows the Akismet activation.  Since this is your control device for fighting spam, treat it as you would any other closely-guarded password.

As you can see, in the three days since I installed mine, Akismet has caught 75 (33/13/29) spam attempts successfully!  To put this into perspective, I was previously deleting individual spam comments  as a part of my moderation process.  Big time saver.  As important to catching the spam, Akismet did this with 100% accuracy.  This means that each catch was accurate.  In my review, I did not find any caught erroneously, nor were any missed.  Wow!

If you find Akismet misses one, or if it wrongfully flags an entry, not to worry.  Mark it as spam on the Dashboard or approve it, and Akismet learns from the process!

Between DoFollow and Akismet, I feel I have tremendously improved the Ultimate Blogging Toolkit – all in the last few days!

Dave