Why Wordpress.com is Virtually Spam Free
Plagerismtoday.com has an excellent post
on why they think
wordpress free blog hosting is virtually
splog (spam blog) free. It's speculative but the author thinks it all comes down to two factors; blocking ads on free blogs (
splogs major revenue source) and the wordpress spam comment filter Akismet.
Splog's have a distinct pattern... namely large amounts of links from comments.
Akismet, an optional
wordpress plugin that centrally tracks and filters spam on comments to
wordpress blogs easily detects
splogs on the
wordpress system by the large amount of comment links to them and can then kill the
splog.
That said... I use
google's blogger.com as my primary blog, and while I see
evidence there are a tremendous amount of
splogs on
blogger I've had FAR more success with
blogger's spam filters then
wordpress. Even though
wordpress has filtered out
splogs comment spam on
wordpress seems particularly
virulent.
I guess what I'm saying is different services excel in different areas.
From:
PlagiarismToday - Why Wordpress.com is Virtually Spam FreeA recent study by WebmasterWorld found that an estimated 77% of all blogs on Google?s Blogspot service were spam. Similarly, AOL Hometown, had well over 80% of its results turn out to be spam. Even MSN Spaces, which as not mentioned in the report, is claimed to host an estimated ten percent of spammer Web site.
It seems as if nearly every major free blog hosting service has been either overrun or nearly overrun with spam. However, one services stands alone, a relative oasis of spam cleanliness, Automattic?s Wordpress.com.
Labels: akismet, blogger.com, comment spam, security, spam, splogs, wordpress
