Comment Spam: Google Cares, and You Should Too

Posted on January 2, 2020 by Angela Ford

Community engagement is key to success for a blogger or online publisher, and that means comments. Allowing comments on blog posts encourages readers to express their opinions. It also provides an opportunity to increase your authority through conversations with inquiring minds and appreciative fans. Social media makes it easy to share articles, but there’s nothing quite like building a community on your own website or blog.

But with a growing audience comes comment spam. These aren’t words of encouragement from loyal followers or legitimate questions from interested readers. These are the comments that are a little too formal, don’t quite make sense, or are pushing payday loans and cheap prescriptions on your post about baking bread.

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Posted in Search Engine Optimization | Tagged Akismet, Comments, Jetpack Anti-spam, spam comments, spam protection | 1 Comment

11 Ways to Give Your WordPress Site a Spring Cleaning

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Brenda Barron

Spring is in the air, and it’s time for a thorough cleaning. Many of us will spend a few days cleaning our homes and offices, or decluttering our computers and other electronic devices.

But why stop there? Along with freshening up your house, you should also take some time to give your WordPress site some TLC and get rid of any digital dust bunnies.

Read on for 11 WordPress maintenance tips that can help you spring clean your site and get it in perfect shape for the next few months.

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Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged Analytics, automatic plugin updates, Backups, maintenance, mobile themes, plugins, SEO, spam protection, Updates, website maintenance | 2 Comments

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What is Spam and Where Do Those Strange Comments Come From?

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Brenda Barron

Does your blog receive a lot of comments? Spending hours moderating comments and determining what is or isn’t spam can be extremely frustrating. However, allowing spam comments to sit unattended could leave a negative taste in your readers’ mouths, and they could even cause your site to rank lower in search engine results, according to Google.

While deactivating the comments section of your site is a surefire way to get rid of spam, doing so will prevent you from having conversations and building relationships with your readers. Removing comments might solve one problem… but it could also create new ones.

So, how do you accept comments without inviting spammers in to leave irrelevant ones? Read on for a deeper look at what spam is, where it comes from, and how you can prevent it from getting into your site in the first place.

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Posted in Security | Tagged Spam, spam comments, spam protection | 5 Comments

5 Minutes to Better WordPress SEO with Jetpack

Posted on July 19, 2017 by Nicole Kohler

Bringing traffic to your website isn’t as easy as waiting around for the right people to show up. To get them to come to you, you need to make sure your site shows up in the places they’re looking — like search engines.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a technical term for tactics that you can use to attract more readers, clients, or customers from search engines. SEO is usually thought of as a complicated, time-consuming series of tasks, but with the right tools it’s well within your reach.

With Jetpack, you can optimize your WordPress site for search engines… and do it in less time than it takes to brew a cup of coffee. Here’s how.

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Posted in Search Engine Optimization | Tagged CDN, meta description, SEO, Sitemaps, spam protection | 5 Comments

The Jetpack Personal plan: affordable site security, backups, and spam protection

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Richard

As a site owner, you rely on your website to attract customers and earn money — regardless of whether you run a high-traffic, e-commerce site or a “brochure” site for your restaurant, consultancy, or small business. The new Jetpack Personal plan is an affordable way to safeguard your site’s content, data, and code from hackers and spammers, so that your site is always up and running when your customers arrive.

Introducing the Jetpack Personal plan

Our new plan protects your site at a much lower price — providing the security essentials you need to keep your site safe from hackers and spammers.

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Posted in Features | Tagged brute force protection, haker protection, Jetpack, service, spam protection, support | 2 Comments