Spam Bots and Anonymous comments - Some Friendly Advice

Here's some helpful information for any of you using 'Blogger.' I found out about this feature on Blogger Buzz.

I've already forwarded this to a couple of fellow bloggers and I have now decided to share it with you all. Use it if you can.

You can activate the, 'word verification' feature under the comments section of your template to cut down on the spam bots. These spammers have a program that looks up key words and then link to your site automatically.

If you use the ‘word verification’ option, the spam bots cannot 'read' and therefore cannot ‘type’ in the code word and that keeps them from posting on your thread.

This feature keeps anonymous spam bot programmers from cluttering up your site with inappropriate or off-topic posts aimed at advertising their sites on your blog. This way you don’t have to continually delete posts from the spammers. Personally I find them annoying. At any rate this is just a suggestion for you to consider.

I hope you find this suggestion useful.

Note: the picture I have posted of Bart Simpson really has nothing to do with this post but, it is just my way of providing some entertainment for those of you reading this post - On second thought it is kind of apropos in that those inane anonymous solicitors never have anything to do with the posts either! What a save... It's always nice to take a jab at the neo-cons.