So last time, I talked about what great content means and how having it convinces search engines to put your site right at the top of search results. Not a lot has changed since then and if you have been keeping yourself up to date with Google’s Panda, you know that now more than ever, you cannot afford to put out bad (as in mediocre, spun, or spam) content.
Tag: spam
Combating Comment Spam in WordPress without Plug-ins
Many people think that WordPress does not have inbuilt security or have less inbuilt security features. Their assumption about WordPress inbuilt security is quite wrong. It has strong inbuilt anti-spam functionality including options to block the comment spam. In fact, you do not need any plug-in even default Akismet to stop the comment spam. The plugins are only meant to provide you additional facilities to fight against spam such as WP-reCAPTCHA to show captcha. In this write up, we’ll introduce you with the inbuilt options of WordPress to block the comment spam on your Website without making use of any third-party features.
Beating Form Spam Redux
Yesterday I showed you how to beat form spam with just CSS. Today it’s a more advanced method using PHP to generate a special key to make spam submissions invalid.
How To Beat Form Spam With Just CSS
Spam is a problem for nearly every website, but with a small tweak to your forms you can easily detect and block spam submissions – and it all comes down to just a little bit of CSS!