Spammers always seem to find ways to achieve their goals :-)
You know the problem, you login to the control panel of your blog and you are met with dozens or hundreds of Spam posts. I hate that.
For example, this blog is “dofollow” … meaning, the links that are posted count in Google’s algorithm. So, if someone makes a good comment, they get rewarded. It is a win-win. But that also attracts the Spammers who see this as an “opportunity” to spread their crappy offers and sites.
For the most part, the Spammers use “bots” to automate the process and can do thousands of posts an hour. For you, to personal monitor those posts and clean them out could take a big part of your day, and that isn’t productive. What are your options? You don’t want to shut down comments, as that would limit the conversation. What makes blogs great is the conversation back and forth.
There is a solution. CAPTCHA.
CAPTCHA determines whether the visitor is a human or machine and the acronym stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.” Seriously, that’s what it means. Almost as good as TWAIN (Technology Without An Interesting Name). The “word” is presented in a format that is slightly distorted so a human can read it but a machine can’t.
But there are a lot of different CAPTCHA programs out there…which one is the best?
According to Adam O’Donnell, director of emerging technologies at anti-spam firm Cloudmark, says,
“Google already has the best computer-vision techniques. The way ReCAPTCHA works, this means that Google will only be presenting CAPTCHA words that are very difficult for a bot to defeat,” O’Donnell explained.
“By pushing up that boundary, it will make CAPTCHA technology much better.”
What does reCAPTCHA look like? Check it out:
The best part is not only does Google own the technology, but Google offers it free! I highly recommend you can take advantage of it. Unlike other CAPTCHAs, it can’t be broken by third-party apps to allow the Spammers to automate their garbage posts.
How it works:
• Sign-up for a reCAPTCHA key to get the code implemented on your website on the reCAPTCHA Administration Portal.
• Remember your reCAPTCHA key is valid only for the domain you sign-up with. If you need to have this option on your multiple domains then you need to generate different keys for each. Or you can sign-up with a Global Option.
Want to see it in action? Just go to the Comments section and you will see it. In order to post a Comment on this Blog, you have to go through reCAPTCHA. Now, will that block all Spam? No. But it will block the automated bots, which is 98% of the Spam posts out there.
Install reCAPTCHA on your site today. It’s free of cost and secure. You can also customize the look of reCAPTCHA on your website.
Blog items says
Can you explain the first part in a little more detail please?
Jerry West says
What part are you confused about or did you just manually spam my blog?
naruto shippuuden says
The video doesnt work for me.
Jerry West says
It’s a screen shot, not a video.
Tim Rosenbach says
Really sweet site you got there. Some of your posts really impressed me. I will definitely visit your blog again!
affiliate stores says
Promote something of ?value? and you can even turn a promotion into ?content? :) I have heard the 90/10 rule works best, but the point is, whether its 80/20 or 90/10 or 75/25 doesn?t matter as much as how VALUABLE is the CONTENT you are delivering :-) If you follow 99/1 and your 99% content is irrelavant, untimely, and just plain valueless to your readership, you really don?t have a 99/1 ratio ;-)
Jerry West says
@affiliate stores … did you eat paint chips as a kid?
Steve Smith says
Excellent read, I just passed this onto a colleague who was doing a little research on that. And he actually bought me lunch because I found it for him smile So let me rephrase that: Thanks for lunch!
Kathi Jimison says
97% of people attempting to break into the Internet Marketing world end up buying product after product and then eventually give up due to “failure”. The other half join companies that never really allow them to generate the results that they can get from self-branding. Running a business online can be really daunting at times and even I felt at some stage that it wasn’t worth the wait.
Jovan Haas says
Great , I will give this a go for my adult dating sites
, it’s good of you
Colin Lidster says
Yep, pretty nice idea, thank you! I found your site via Bing
Tomasa Offley says
Fantastic work. You have gained a new reader. I hope you keep up the good work and I eagerly await more of the same absorbing posts and pictures.
www.mymiamicomputerrepair.com says
This is a really interesting. I’m actually gethering up a list of posts on this and making a reference blog. This is going to be at the top of the list. Thanks.
Atlanta asphalt paving says
Definitely. I too agree that recaptcha is helpful to your website. Many people have used various of software to comment thousands of urls in just a minute and this is why captcha words are totally a huge help to protect the site from spammers.
Ceasuri Barbatesti says
Many people have used various of software to comment thousands of urls in just a minute and this is why captcha words are totally a huge help.
sandeep verma says
what does re in reCAPTCHA means is it a company brand or just to refresh and get the other words
Jerry West says
sandeep verma » It is the company brand.