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UPDATE: the new GASP Anti-Spam WordPress plugin has been released and is available in the WordPress Plugin Repository.

THIS is the ALTERNATIVE TO AKISMET that provides the SOLUTION to being Flagged as a Spammer! Spread it throughout the blogosphere and your comments will work again.

How to Block Spam Without Akismet
Possible Way to Block Spam Without Using Akismet

Because of the challenges of commenting in blogs that have Akismet installed we no longer use Akismet in our blogs and we have been asked to compile a list of blogs that are Akismet free.

If your blog does not use Akismet, you welcome new comments, and you would like to be listed, please leave a comment with all of the informati0n listed below and we will periodically move your links up into the body of this post:

  1. Blog platform (WordPress, Blogger, Typepad, etc.)
  2. URL (Address where your site is, i.e., http://www.yourdomain.com/)
  3. Desired Anchor Text
  4. Dofollow or Nofollow?
  5. CommentLuv installed?
  6. KeywordLuv installed?
  7. Keyword/Business Friendly

Option number seven requires some explanation. Some bloggers install KeywordLuv but do not welcome commentators who have businesses or use business related keywords.

If you do not want to receive comments by business owners or their representatives please do not request to be listed here.

In our blogs we have disabled Aksimet and made sure that the option to only allow comments to be immediately visible after one approved comment from that commentator. That has effectively kept objectionable comments from going live. It does not take any more time to review the comments in pending that we had been reviewing in spam.

If you are not using Akismet we would also love to hear from you about how you are dealing with spam. We have considered using captchas but know that there are captcha inaccessibility issues for the visually impaired have difficulty with them.

There is a very good post that explains Why Attacking Spam Methods is Useless.

A growing number of blogs and businesses will realize that blocking real people from commenting is a very bad idea. If that is you we would love to hear from you.

LIST of Business Friendly DoFollow Blogs with CommentLuv and KeywordLuv installed that do NOT use Akismet :

  • GrowMap (this blog)
  • AffiliateXFiles Affiliate Marketing Advice
  • Good Millwork Florida Millwork
  • ExecGiftsBlog Engraved Gifts and Gift Ideas
  • NoBogies golf store and blog
  • Tech Link blog and cell phone reviews
  • Master Gardener Stephanie Suesan Smith’s gardening tips blog

Other Akismet Free Blogs:

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Small Business Marketing Strategist at GrowMap
Gail Gardner is the founder of GrowMap.com. She is a Small Business Marketing Strategist who mentors small businesses, bloggers, and freelancers. After 23 years in the field with IBM and 5.5 years managing AdWords accounts, her focus shifted to small business marketing strategy. GrowMap.com is listed by Cision as a Top 100 Site for Marketers and has received three Small Business Influencer Awards from Small Business Trends. Named by D&B a Top 50 SMB Influencer on Twitter, you can follow Gail @GrowMap and on LinkedIn.
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  2. I am not sure the things that I might have gone through without the type of hints revealed by you . Thanks for nice one

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  3. All I want is to have a good educational website and Job website so that I deliver valuable content to my visitors. And also become a good blogger with rich contents.

    So i post do follow comments in websites but if that does not approved by respective websites owners then i gladly accept it.

    By the way i don’t use Akismet. I invite for do follow comments and kindly accept my do follow comment.

    Thank you for your awesome post, Best wishes from jobs
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  4. superb dofollow list thanks for sharing this list will very useful to newbies who starting blogging soon and also who are comment lagain thanks…………

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  5. yes but with plugin like CommentLuv and KeywordLuv . you can reduce the number of spam in your blog.

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  8. Akismet has lost its importance due to the CommentLuv as it provides you the safa services as far as spamming comments is concerned. but still i could not understand how it observes that which one is duplicate because very few times i have seen that when i comment on a blog who has installed the CommentLuv says that you probably already said that. I think there are some problems with this Plugin.

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  9. There are some issues with this plugin like sometime when you give the name with the keyword then this plugin make text link to both name and also keyword. Although many times i have read under comments where this plugin installed, that give the name with the keyword but this will not linked to both. so there are errors in it also.

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  10. Comment Luv is better version but i dont how to track the spamming comment because i have also commented from other place sitting at the PC BUT it did not accept the comment. I also got the emails that sometimes it accepts the comment or sometime it does not.

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  11. Thank you for sharing your thoughts about askimet. We have been also using this since we created our first blog but after reading you post, I guess I would find another one.

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  12. While I am not a fan of akismet when it comes to posting on other peoples blog. I do have to admit I have been forced to use it on my own blog as removing spam comments became a daily practice. I just don’t understand why people think comments like “great post” “great read” will ever be approved?

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  13. I have akismet but I dont use it. I still do manual checking for comments. this way i can really check myself the real people commenting.

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  15. to prevent spam we use a number of hidden fields in the contact forms with names like ’email’. When the form is submitted correctly these are populated by portions of the session variable. If the form is filled in by a robot they put email addresses in these fields so the form does not submit. Something we’ve thought of too is to check for actual mouse button down on the submit button, this rules out people submitting the form via the return button though.
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  16. Some truly great information about DoFollow Blog List, Glad I noticed this. “They are able because they think they are able.”

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  17. Thank you for posting Akismet free websites. Akismet really does not work very well. Sometimes I read the whole article, leave comment and it never get posted or sometimes the whole message get erased. I appreciate you using Akismet free blog.

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  19. Thanks for sharing this “Akismet-free” blog list with and I hope it will be helpful for us building links and gaining good ranking.

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  22. It is good option to close the comments after few days but it will limit the options for all those commentators who want to be part of part of real discussion.

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  23. Having an anti-spam system for blogs is important. However, having an anti-spam system that can’t be easily gamed or that gives credibility where credibility isn’t due is also important. Akismet needs to step up and correct these serious and growing problems in their system.
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  24. My blog currently attracts 100% spam comments. I am planning a move to do follow for my blog soon. I hope this will attract new and quality comments. I will come back and report the results.

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  25. Wonderful list! I know a lot of websites that have installed one or two of the plugins you featured but not do follow. I think the best solution to keep spam away is to close the comments after 1-2 weeks on each post.

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  26. Agreed to a large extent that span will be a problem. Also since all of them now default to ‘nofollow’ , not sure how much value these spammers get out of the sites.
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  27. I’m not exactly sure how to tell if a site has Askimet or not. Is there a way to tell? or does it just say it on the site?

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    • Hi Mitchell,

      There is not any obvious way to tell unless they display that image Akismet provides indicating they use it. Most commentators realize a blog uses it when they get a blank white page after commenting indicating that Akismet deleted their comment before the blogger ever gets to see it!

      Our solution is to spread our Akismet alternative and have commentators and bloggers suggest it to the blogs where they comment. If you see a check box asking you to indicate you’re human or not a bot or something similar that blog is using our plugin.

      Love the title of the post you shared. It is bound to get more clicks than something dry about real estate.
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      • That totally makes sense! I hate it when it goes to a blank white screen, but I wasn’t sure what that meant, thank you for the help.

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  28. I am a little bit confused with Akismet because friend bloggers are saying that it is useful and others would say that it helps a lot on blogging. Reading more about it might educate me more.

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    • Hi Tina,

      If you ONLY consider that it blocks spam it is useful because it saves time BUT as soon as you figure out how many of your best comments it either deletes outright or throws into the spam folder along with 100s or even 1000s of spambot comments then you have a decision to make.

      Are you going to just let all those comments get deleted and silence all those commentators forever OR are you going to spend hours digging them out of spam.

      We got sick of spending hours fishing out a dozen real comments from among 1000+ PER DAY spambot comments and came up with a REAL solution: our Akismet alternative.
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  29. Honestly, I don’t have any idea about askimet. Some says it’s nice others don’t. Thankful I found this it enlighten me up in such things.

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  30. I agree wih the above comment. Spam will always been a problem.
    I’m not sure if Akismet gives any solution, but lots of time I read a blog, leave a voluble comment, but it is still not posted. At the same time comments that Have No Common Sence at all, are posted, very confusing!!!

    howtogetyourexbackmym3

    [Note from GrowMap – above link altered because it goes to a sales page that collects email addresses that is highly likely to be considered a bad neighborhood.]

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    • Hi Chris and Marina,

      I approved your comment so that I could explain to you why even bloggers like me are likely to delete your comments or at least remove your links. There are several issues with your comment.

      1) Any comment that has a URL at the end of it is highly likely to get deleted. All you have to do is put Chris and Marina @ How to Get Your Ex Back in the name field and this blog will link only How to Get Your Ex Back. This blog clearly indicates that it offers KeywordLuv and has a link to the plugin that explains what it is. That page belongs to the plugin creator and it isn’t as clear as it could be but it does say:

      “This site uses KeywordLuv. Enter YourName@YourKeywords in the Name field to take advantage.”

      There is no reason for a blogger to want to give you two links to the same URL.

      2) You’re linking to a sales page instead of a blog or at least a regular site. There is nothing there to let people know whether they want to trust you with their email address or not and no way for a blogger to know if that is a legitimate site or not. Many will suspect it could be considered a bad neighborhood by Google and delete your link.

      You need to understand that to many bloggers the comment above IS spam. You will definitely be flagged by many bloggers and blacklisted by Akismet. On top of that your comment has two misspelled words in it.

      If you want to get bloggers to keep your comments you would be much better off by making these changes:

      1) Linking to a blog instead of a sales page.
      2) Using KeywordLuv properly.
      3) Registering for CommentLuv and letting it create your links for you.

      I noticed that while you shared a Twitter link you’re not actually doing anything on Twitter yet. Check out the getting started videos, how-to posts and my Twitter Best Practices for everything you need to really understand how to use Twitter.

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  31. Hmm. Really. You are absolutely right. I have Dofollow blog and i will used this post for that blog. Thanks.

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    • Hello,

      I approved your comment to explain to you why the way you are commenting is a bad idea. When a blog offers both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv you’re already getting two links. Many bloggers will consider you adding another two links into your comment greedy or selfish and delete the entire comment or even report you to Akismet as a spammer which will automatically delete or blacklist your future comments.

      There are several things you can do to encourage bloggers to approve your comments and not flag you as a spammer:

      1) Write a blog post for each of those keyword phrases with the phrase as the title and use CommentLuv to select one of them.

      2) In KeywordLuv blogs like this one use a name before the phrase you want like this:

      Bob @glenwaverley suspended ceilings

      Only the keyword phrase will be linked. If you are commenting for a business I recommend you consistently use a specific pen name for each different business – not your name, not their name and not the same name for many businesses.

      3) Write better comments. This one doesn’t really say much of anything and it is unclear what you really mean. If I didn’t want to explain all this to you I would have deleted it – and most bloggers are far less lenient at approving comments than I am.
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  33. Hi Gail…

    I’m with you on all these and would love to appear in your list. My info:

    1. WordPress Blog
    2. http://jymtarrant.com
    3. Anchor Text: Beginner’s Blogging Tips
    4. DoFollow active
    5. ComLuv fully operational for all commentators
    6. KeywordLuv enabled
    7. Business/Keyword welcome (though I prefer ‘name @ keyword’ or ‘name | keyword’ so I know who I’m talking to!)

    Oh – and I’ve ditched Akismet (once and for all). I’ve developed a nose for the few spam comments that slip through the GASP net (and am ruthless with them!).

    Basically, all I ask of my commentators is that they actually read my post before commenting, and don’t link out to bad neighborhoods…

    Thanks very much for putting this resource together.
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  34. If Akismet is illegal in Europe.. That’s nothing compared to China.. Lol
    I admire those people who does not use Akismet because it only show their dedication to their readers and scan spams manually just to let other everyone say their thoughts about a post.
    But using Akismet is not a problem at all for me. No one can blame an admin because of all those spammers around.

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  35. I’m glad to have found this post. Yeah, Akismet is becoming a pain now. I’m trying to comment on blog’s that I frequently do and it’s not showing up my comments and marking them as spam. I have no idea why this was happening so I just sent them a message through their contact form. Problem is, most blogs on the internet still follow Akismet so you can’t really say a big no to it. =[
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  37. I have recently become extremely disillusioned with Akismet, and I’m delighted to have discovered this site. I have long encouraged real, business-friendly comments with KeywordLuv and CommentLuv in the blog section of my professional site. Now I’ve also disabled Akismet and I feel a lot better. Please add to your list:

    Blog platform – WordPress
    URL – http://stevediamondconsulting.com/
    Desired Anchor Text – Executive Computer Consultant
    Dofollow or Nofollow? – Dofollow
    CommentLuv installed? – Yes
    KeywordLuv installed? – Yes
    Keyword/Business Friendly? – Yes

    Thanks very much!
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  39. Spam will always be a problem. But i also think that Akismet is not the best solution. If you have a blog you have to put the efforts in it to read the comments.

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  40. In commenting a doFollow blog, why is it that some comments approved were treated as a noFollow? How do blogs classify comments as doFollow or noFollow?
    I find hard time researching doFollow blogs to comment just to find out that my comment will be treated s a noFollow. It’s a waste of time in the linkbuilding process.

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    • Hi Armil,

      The most likely reason is that they are using one of the plugins that allows them to nofollow the first x comments and then after you have a set number approved then all your comments change to dofollow.

      There are several plugins like that and most allow them to choose how many comments (usually between 3 and 10). I don’t like them because they do little to discourage spammers who know how they work and only confuse other commentators.

      You can often find a post or comment p0licy that says how many comments before yours go dofollow. Search for Lucia’s Linky Love or Luv. I don’t remember the names of the others right now.

      The latest version of CommentLuv is going to make it easier for bloggers to nofollow comments so you may be seeing more nofollow dofollow issues in the future.

      Remember that there is really no such thing as nofollow. Search and you’ll see that the comments are indexed so they must have been followed, right? So those comments are not a waste of a time – they just aren’t as valuable for improving search position.

      I keep the current info about CommentLuv on the post I’ll put in this reply.
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  41. Fantastic resource for link builders, I’ve just printed this out! Thanks a lot for sharing, it’s a pleasure to hear a reasonable view on commenting and the bonuses it can bring a site not to block people 😀

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    • Thank you vgv8,

      We were not aware of that. Here is a machine translation of the page shared:

      On the Blogs of the Pat_innen became – as reports here – the comment function system internally switched off – which naturally also a possibility of the avoidance of Spam actual however none, which appears very up-to-date to me in the Web2.0-Zeitalter. To it a reference was past Thursday now parallel on the fact on the German-language Word press Blog that the use of Akismet was legally doubtful in Germany.

      Kind of tie-clip: BieneDa I read itself also by the various comments, decided I, instead of trying out an adjustment for the comment function and further testing/recommendation of Akismet times the there quite frequently mentioned anti-Spam Bee: German-language one (!) Alternative one to Akismet: http://antispambee.de/. After the installation I looked at myself and decided the attitudes to want caution for the sake of only times no direct deletion. From me inexplicable reasons this information was not correctly stored unfortunately. : (

      Now I – the attitudes again stored – have obviously more successfully. This mark also with a notification, if new (SPAM) comments are received. Still there I announced myself afterwards off and again and the attitudes was. 🙂 . I get now no notifications, but nevertheless the reference on that the Dashboard, like many Spam Mails was still deleted and/or. itself in the Spam file befinden*. Now it remains hoping that in the past week no “more genuinly” (seriously more meant) comment was gepiekst by the Bienchen and found for “false”.

      Kind of tie-clip: Magnifying glass which is your/your experiences/opinions about Spam and its avoidance? Would it be interesting for you/you, if I took (also) times https://www.keycaptcha.com/ here nevertheless under the magnifying glass? Or did someone from you/you already times under the magnifying glass take this ADD on? It is agg. also with German-language Captchas to be equipped can – possibly also with a German-language guidance? Pertinent comments – hopefully not false to be found;) – are as always welcome.

      * Edit: The Spam comments arrived nevertheless as Mails – only stop in the Spam file;) – functions thus now also correctly! 🙂
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      • Might be auto-translation of
        http://blog.wordpress-deutschland.org/2011/03/01/verwendung-von-akismet-in-deutschland-rechtlich-fragwuerdig-konsequenzen.html
        is more fortunate in English:
        Title:Verwendung von Akismet in Deutschland rechtlich
        fragwürdig – Konsequenzen?
        Article:
        Akismet is included by default in WordPress, and even in our U.S. edition, as a plugin to fight spam. It does this quite successfully through activation , but it looks like the use of Akismet in Germany (and possibly other European countries) is legally very difficult – especially if you have no privacy statement, in which one clearly states the term of use and effects of Akismet use.

        Akismet collects a lot of data (IP, Comment Name, email address comment, comment, browser and many more) and sends it to servers in the US. Tools like Google Analytics do the same and are therefore under strong fire from privacy advocates because it infringes the privacy laws.

        Legally probably not clear, but as we spread the word in the German press, we also bear responsibility. And it raises the question of how WordPress Germany would respond. Would it explain the Terms of Service in less ambiguous terms before someone enables Akismet? Would we exclude the Akismet from usage, and if so, then what will be the possible replacement as alternative?
        We want your feedback!
        —–
        There are hundreds of comments to this article and hundreds of other articles in German Press and media.

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  45. Im having trouble with akismet at the moment, I noticed my comments were not showing then realised my email had been blocked, I contacted akismet who said it was for using keywords in the name field. I replied by saying I had only used keywords in the mane field when the blog had enabled keywordluv, so I was only doing as instruted. When I get a reply i will check back here and let you guys know what they said.
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      • Hi Growmap(Sorry I don’t know your name)
        So far no reply but I was surprised anyway when they replied the first time, I basically told them what I already posted on your blog, how can I be flagged for doing as instructed by blog owners anway I will give it another day and see. I am interested in this Akismet replacement could you give me a link for more info please.

        Here is there first reply
        Hi James,

        Most people regard your comments as spam. Stuffing the name field with keywords annoys people.

        Kind regards,
        Alex.

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        • Hi James,

          Thank you for taking the time to come back and tell us what they said. The official WordPress, Akismet and Google policy is they do not like links in comments and they should all be nofollow with no keywords in them.

          Google favors big brands and they do not want small businesses and bloggers to be able to build links by commenting.

          There is a tab at the top of this blog for our GrowMap anti-spambot plugin or you can use that link to get the details. You can also find it by searching for GrowMap in the official WordPress repository.
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  46. thanks for this information, i know that Askimet required for API key, must i buy API key? how i can get it free?

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  47. Spam is always been an issue that needs to be given a serious solution. I, myself is an anti-spammer too. I am looking for more ways to have and to join in a do follow blogs. Do you any recommendations? Is it really safe to disable Akismet? Thanks for sharing this article.

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  48. I also have installed kismet on my wordpress platform. I don’t have many visitors as i want daily but the number it’s increasing. Yesterday i got 3 comments from same website different ip’s, email add, and different names. Non relevant content to my post….They are spam?

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  49. Wow, finally someone stood up against Akismet. I seriously think that Akismet has gained too much power over the internet. They can just block of anyone from commenting on blogs. And they are definitely not perfect in determining who is a spammer and who is not. I have had blogs blacklisted by Akismet that don’t even have a single backlink , let alone spammed. It’s great that you are standing up against them. Do you think there is a search string (a foot print) that I can use to find the blogs that are using your Anti-spambot plugin instead of Akismet. Again, thanks a lot for doing this. You guys are great. I will try to spread the word in forums as much as I can. Thanks!!
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    • Hi Kevin,

      I agree. Akismet and WordPress along with Google, Microsoft, Bing, Yahoo…and the list goes on and on. If we want to maintain our freedom we must find independent solutions to support. Eventually we may have to move our blogs off WordPress or even create an alternative Internet.

      Because it is easy in the GrowMap anti-spambot plugin to change the text from the default there is no single search string that will find blogs that use that plugin. You can try searching for the name of the plugin as many bloggers write about it when they switch or try variations of the default text.
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  50. Very informative blog…I don’t know why this spam problem occurs and whats the solution of it…Will deffinitely share this blog with my friends.

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  52. Spam is always been an issue that needs to be given a serious solution. I, myself is an anti-spammer too. I am looking for more ways to have and to join in a do follow blogs. Do you any recommendations? Is it really safe to disable Akismet? Thanks for sharing this article.
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    • The new anti-spambot plugin does a much better job of handling spam than Akismet ever did. I have not only disabled it but actually deleted it from all of my blogs and as of today it has been downloaded 2,582 times and is being used by many major bloggers.

      You can easily tell who uses it by the checkbox in the comment section. Nothing has increased my productivity as much as this plugin!
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  53. I appreciate the list of dofollow blogs. There are so many nofollow blogs out there that it often takes hours just to get a couple links. If I get around to learning to create blogs instead of static web pages, I’ll make sure they’re dofollow so I can have them added to this list….

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  55. I know most bloggers want their blogs be “do follow” blogs. But is it safe to disable akismet? I want to try that in my blog as well but I don’t know how to do it. Maybe I will visit your site more often for some updates. Thank you for this.

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  56. I use Akismet on all my WordPress sites and it works excellently for me. Thank you for your informative article.
    Best,
    Dan

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  57. Growmap,

    While I am one of those who also don’t like Akismet’s current way of handling spam which also hurts real commenters but I think in order to avoid spam after removing Akismet, you need to take a lot of measures. Like using some other Spam Protection plugin which thinks about real people and CAPTCHAs or Spam Questions….along with this spammer check box. Because it is real easy for any programmer to program his bots to make sure to check ‘you are NOT a spammer’ box.

    I know captcha is difficult for some people but you can always put spam questions related to your blog and providing hint for any new user to find out the answer. Because no akismet + just one-time moderation is heaven for spammers. You’ll get it why I said that after seeing comments above me.

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    • Hi Karen,

      While our new anti-spam plugin seems simple it has other ways of keeping spammers out and so far none have managed to defeat it yet.

      There have been 412 downloads of the latest version and at least several hundred of the one before that and no reported problems to date.

      The comments above yours that you mentioned were no doubt manually created as our plugin only blocks bots – but it is the bots that leave huge volumes of spam.

      When a commentator leaves a spammy comment you can then delete all comments (so they have none approved) and blacklist them in the discussions section to keep them from leaving any new ones.

      IMHO, bloggers are over-anxious about spam comments and err far too much towards keeping them out and are not generous enough about letting people comment.
      growmap would love you to read ..GrowMap Anti-Spambot Plugin Now Available at WordPress Plugin RepositoryMy Profile

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  59. also, keyword luv is a bit of a gimmick, just stick your keywords in there and if you must, have your name in the body of the post… but frankly does it matter if one is george and not john?
    The more plugins the slower your blog, is it worth it?

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  60. @ Klaus, it only takes me to hit you as a spammer on the akismet button and you are immediately converted to our cause.
    Many people will declare you a spammer simply out of spite, and then you are banned forever… is that fair?

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  61. Hi there, a couple of akismet free blogs both do follow.

    http://lawyer.solutionsarticles.com/
    http://123automotive-insurance.solutionsarticles.com

    they use double captcha, but at least you wont’ have to fight the evil akismet

    I am compiling a list of akismet free blogs and will have a page made at those sites so feel free to send us more such sites.

    I do have keyword luv but don’t need it anyway as I don’t really care about your name so long as your comment is a person typing and not a bot giving us duplicated content. So enter your keywords as you please, just MAKE sense when you speak to us.

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  62. I would like to see Akismet create a quicker and more streamlined process for letting people who have been added to their spam list who should not be there. For example, real people leaving real comments but the blog owner just didn’t like the comment and/or was a jerk. I just want to help women get rid of their Post Pregnancy Tummy, but some people don’t think that their blog should help them do that. I could understand if my comments were lame “good post” comments, but I actually read the articles (like this) and try to contribute valid information!

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    • There will always be bloggers who consider any comment that includes a link or goes to a site that offers anything for sale to be spam. Even if you could get unflagged you will just end up flagged again.

      You might want to look into using CommentLuv instead of links in the body of comments. They are more acceptable to many bloggers and there are now 30,000+ registered users of CommentLuv.
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  63. Hi , thanks for following me on twitter. I will be following you …

    I visited Stephanie’s gardening blog.. Got some good tips from there..

    Will be checking out here often for something new and interesting.

    Sunu Mariam

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    • Welcome Sunu,

      I am so glad you reached out and asked about your missing comment. Hearing from our readers and allowing businesses and bloggers to build links to increase their visitors is so important to us that we removed Akismet from all our blogs and are testing a custom plugin that only exists because we refused to let this problem go without a better solution.

      I am glad to have you as a reader and commentator and look forward to learning more about you through the anchor text and CommentLuv posts you choose to share,
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  64. I made a comment here last week but it didn’t got approved. Was it because there was a link in the comment content? But it was relevant to the topic..

    May be what you say and do are different…No hard feelings!

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    • Hello Plants,

      If I saw your comment I would have approved it. You may notice there has been a lot of talk about problems with spam and Akismet and the spammers using bots were flooding this blog with about 1,000 spam comments a day. I did manually review all of those comments but it is possible I missed yours.

      We are testing a brand new custom anti-spam plugin now. There is one bug we’re working on with it so do make sure and check the box that says “I am not a spammer” because until we get that fixed you might lose your comment if you have to back up because you forgot to check that box.

      It is always a good idea to copy your comment BEFORE you click submit wherever you comment – just in case you have to paste it back in. You are welcome to comment in any posts and you may want to visit Stephanie’s gardening blog too.

      If you like you can put a name and keyword phrase in the name field here and only your keywords will be linked. The post I’ll feature in CommentLuv in this reply has more details on that.

      If you or anyone you know would be interested in discussing paid work please let me know using the contact form or in a comment. The exchange rate between your country and here makes hiring people there very desirable for businesses with limited resources or suffering due to the economy here.
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  67. I agree. It is harder and harder each day to get the dofollow website. Thanks for the post. It is very helpful

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  68. Yes, Most bloggers are annoyed by spam, and hence some do many things to protect their blog, but this happens a negative thing that readers or commentators don’t have a voice although they may not spam. I think that using Akismet is not convenient instead of using Recaptcha or Commentluv.
    .-= Paris Accommodation´s featured blog ..Lovely Decorated Studio near Louvre Museum in Paris =-.

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    • Part of the problem is that many commentators are leaving comments that are rather spammy including some that comment using the URL associated with your comment.

      You need to train them better because few bloggers are as willing to work to increase understanding as I am. Some comments that have been left for Paris Accommodation have been deleted even here because they would be considered spam by any blogger – even me.

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  69. I’ve been using Akismet Spam plugin for years and it’s been very effective.
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    • The problem with Akismet is that it is “very effective” by treating many of your regular readers and commentators rudely. We can not only judge a plugin by whether it blocks spam – which by the way Akismet doesn’t always do all that well because we must also consider false positives.

      The longer someone has been commenting in blogs the more likely they are to be flagged as a spammer even if they are not. This will never change because many bloggers have an incorrect idea about what spam is.
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  70. Yeah I heard people who complains on the lack of security they get from Akismet. So I still go for manual approval of comments than trusting automated spam blocker.

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  71. It is hard to get dofollow sites lately. Some of dofollow websites in my list turn to no follow now. 🙁
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    • Hi Stephanie,

      Your blog is now in the list too. Thank you for your recent guest posts; they have been very popular and they are benefiting small businesses who generously sponsored the FamousBloggers CommentLuv $3550 CASH Blogging Contest.

      I’ve featured one of your guest posts in CommentLuv in this reply.
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  73. I don’t agree completely with this “raid” against Akismet, but I respect your decision and your initiative to make this “Akismet free dofollow blog list” – so I wish you best of luck with it 🙂
    .-= Klaus @ TechPatio´s featured blog ..iPhone 4 Not Recommended by Consumer Reports -amp Apple Removing Forum Threads =-.

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    • Hi Klaus,

      Thank you for taking the time to comment. I am not opposed to Akismet so much as wanting to ensure that all my readers and commentators have a voice here.

      Akismet could make improvements that would make it harder for legitimate commentators to end up flagged as spammers and make it easier for them to get unbanned.

      Spam is as serious a problem for me as for anyone else; I am just unwilling to allow my readers to be blocked from commenting.
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  74. I have also disabled Akismet on my Blog and am using Recaptcha and Commentluv and Do Follow! Please add me to your list!!

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