How big a problem is spam for your site ? If you run a blog which doesn’t receive too much traffic, you would probably not have to worry too much. Reasonable traffic and pagerank, and the spam will flow in. Viagra, pharmacy, adult, video links….the list can go on and on, but to sum it up in a nutshell, sites which have absolutely nothing to do with the content of your site. All they want is a bit of traffic, and some PR to be leaked from your site. Some people do delete spam religiously, but there are the odd ones which creep in through the system. And considering that most of the work is done by bots and not humans, that success percentage is perfectly acceptable to spammers.

When you see spam in a blog, it simply kills off any enthusiasm that you might have had to read the blog. And your impression of the blog owner is - well, it doesn’t look like he cares for his readers. Wordpress has a couple of anti spam plugins that do their job very well. Akismet is inbuilt into your wordpress installation. You need an API key to activate it, which can be obtained by registering at wordpress.com. Spam Karma is another plugin which works well to kill spam. You can find a whole list of anti spam tools here

And speaking about spam, I was going through Aaron’s blog, when I found this extremely hilarious post.  Spammers are coming up with newer ideas every day…….