After trying different ways to protect my WordPress powered websites from spam comments no other toll comes close to what Akismet can do for your site.
While protecting your site from spam, there is a danger of turning away visitors from your site if leaving comments at your website is somewhat complicated or requires your visitor to do all kinds math calculation and answering some silly questions just to prove that what they about to write is not spam or if the are truly a “human”. It has to be said that for a while I thought it was a good idea to ask my visitors to do just that, but fortunately I have discovered the power of Akismet!
Akismet is a “community driven” plugin that allows you to mark certain comments as spam. You can also use the plugin to “de-spam” massages that were wrongly marked as such. Every time you do that, Akismet collects your input and other online bloggers can benefit from it.
In only one week, the plugin has “cut” over 100 spam comments on three of my WordPress powered sites!
There is truly no better way to protect your website!