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Blog Comment Spam Can Hurt Your Rankings

Comment spam on blogs has been a problem for over a decade. But not only do those spam comments make your posts look bad, they can also hurt your site’s ability to rank. Pages with spam comments will tend to rank lower, and just removing spam comments can create a rankings boost.

5 Free WordPress Plugins to Stop Comment Spam in 2011

Wordpress blogs are an excellent tool for making your website more attractive to search engines. Unfortunately dealing with automated comment spam goes hand-in-hand with having a blog. Here are 5 effective and free tools to deal with comment spam on your Wordpress blog. These plugins will handle spam for you and allow you to focus on blogging.