Blog spam has gotten smarter. It looks just like real comments and it is often undetectable by anti-spam plugins. So how can you beat it?

The Akismet anti-spam system is one of the most handy tools for automatically detecting spammy comments. However, we have found that it doesn’t work as well as it should. In fact, you might find yourself victim of an Akismet attack and have all of your comments regarded as SPAM. It happened to us!

If you thought Akismet couldn’t get any better, it just did! In its most recent release, it introduced detailed comment and spam statistics.

Spam is everywhere. Within the last few years, for example, it has expanded from simple email spam to search engine spam, instant message spam, comment spam in blogs, forum spam, guestbook spam, and even text-message spam. And while it may annoying to get these pesky messages, it is even more annoying to think of what it may be costing us in terms of time, productivity, and ISP charges. In this article, we discuss automated methods to prevent and eliminate spam.