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It is very exciting to have your blog appearing in search results. Commonly the traffic received, includes a good number of visitors which promote spam. They commonly add comments on posts to get back links and may be visitors.

Percentage of spam comments can be very high. For example comments posted on this blog include 95% spam. Blogs hosted on WordPress.com get some protection by default, but blogs hosted else where using WordPress software are open for such spam by default.

It is really a headache to filter and remove such comments. Luckly following two WordPress plugins can make your life a lot easier.

1. Akismet
2. reCAPTCHA

1. Akismet:

   In latest versions of WordPress this is installed by default. The plugin protects the blog against spam comments and deletes the obvious spam ones based on spam keywords and content. It significantly reduces the number of comments moderator have to filter. The plugin requires API key which can be attained simply by creating an account on WordPress.com. The API key is shown on edit profile page in admin area.

2. reCAPTCHA:

   Spam comment posting is mostly done by automated software called “Bots” or “Robots”. They find specific fields on pages and fill them with predefined data. reCAPTCHA wordpress plugin provides protection against these bots this reducing  the number of spam comments. The plugin requires two keys called Public and Private key. These can be obtained by creating free account at recaptcha.net.