2 months back I started getting a lot of spam comments on my blog. I installed Akismet & Conditional Captcha plugin, the spam comments reduced a lot but still spam comments were coming on most of my articles. I copied one of the spam comment and searched it on Google and the same comment was published on hundreds of WordPress blogs. Then I checked those blogs and there was one thing that common on all those blogs. Read below what I discovered.
What I discovered
While viewing all the blogs I discovered that all those blogs was having a text in the footer and that was “Powered by WordPress”.
Conclusion
I concluded that spammers uses some type of search technique to find WordPress blogs and spam their blog via commenting. Below are 3 search techniques that spammers use to find and spam your blog.
Google search techniques
“allintext”:powered by WordPress :Spammers use this method, to find all blogs that have text written “powered by WordPress” on whole page.
“allinanchor”:powered by WordPress : This will show those blogs that have powered by WordPress anchor text hyperlinked.
intext:powered by WordPress : It will show results of pages that contains the word powered by WordPress.
Suggestion
I suggest it is good to remove “Powered by WordPress” text in the footer, so as to remain secure a bit from Spammers. I hope this little trick can save your site 1-2 percent from spammers.
