This is a common problem you’ll face not just in Malaysia Corporate Blogging. If you have a popular blog or your company is popular, you might face a big problem- spammed comments
These comments could be full of links to sites which contains Adult related videos, medicine, insurance, credit card, etc. These comments are created by software that could automatically seek for blogs and comment on it. They are doing this to advertise their website and manipulate search engine results.
Most of the time, I’ll have more than 1000 spammed comments on my popular blogs.
Spammed comments will harm your blog in few ways:
1. Your blog will look ugly.
2. The credibility of your corporate blog will drop. Your corporate will be perceived as a corporate that is weak in managing data and information.
3. The communication channel with the market and customer will be broken. People might not be interested to read comments from you and others. They might not feel like commenting at all.
It’s important to learn how to handle this problem. So, here’re the steps:
Step 1: Register An Account With Wordpress.com
Go to wordpress.com and register and account. You need a set of numbers which is called the API Key.
Step 2: Activate the ‘Akismet’ Plugin
When you login your corporate blog admin area, click on “Plugin”. You will see a small list of plugin. Seek for “Akismet” and activate it. When you try to activate it, the blog will request you to enter your API Key. Enter it and the plugin will start working.
Step 3: Mark As Spam
When there’s comment spammers attack again, click on “comment” in your admin area. Seek for those comments you think they are spammed and click on “spam” (it’s just at the right hand side of each of the comments).
Next time they spam again, you won’t see them again. They are all captured by your Akismet Plugin in another category- Akismet Spam. It works like a junk box in your email account. You can just delete all of it or open it to see if there’s any comment that accidentally fall into it (not a common thing that will happen).
Hope this tip will save you a lot of time in moderating comments and help your corporate blog looks more professional. Have fun with Malaysia Corporate Blogging!