Comments are always welcomed and appreciated. However, comments are also one of the biggest causes of spam on websites. If you do not have a proper comment moderation and protection system, your site will be flooded with links to spam, phishing and other unwanted sites.
Akismet as always does a pretty good job at tracking most of the comments. However, recently I have started seeing a new way of comment spam which uses a different tactic. With this new form of spam, spam commentators have started to use short URLs such as bit.ly and is.gd among others as their website URLs, as well as within the comments itself.
The problem with such URLs is that, it is usually a bit hard to tell where it is linking to without actually clicking on the link, and this in turn leads many users to skip checking it, specially on highly commented blogs. If that […]
Original post by Keith Dsouza
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