As my site has drawn more readership lately, it has also drawn a great deal more SPAM comments. These comments are mostly crap, some are funny, but it is annoying too (since I have to at least look at the SPAM list to see if AKISMET has set some genuine comment as a SPAM).

The graphic from AKISMET shows just how the volume has increased markedly over the past few months. In June I had only a few a day, but now I am getting Hundreds a day, and the volume does not seem to be dropping.

I think I’ll need to look closer into a more automated SPAM removal system, or I may look to introduce some kind of Comment validation technique to at least slow the spammers down a little.

SPAM Comment Levels Growing A Lot

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That is the error that the Google Bot now gives for Canadian Financial Opinions when it ran through it on March 11th. This is interesting, because I found an online freeware bot emulator from sourceforge(that of course, I cannot find any more) that gave me the exact same error, so now I am wondering what exactly might be causing that, so now I am scouring the web to find a FREE tool to test this out and see if the problem is in MY side of things (not surprising if that is the case).

Canadian Financial Opinions is much like my basement back room in that it is full of crap that I have put there for SOME reason but I forgot exactly why. This is why I think this weekend, I may do some spring cleaning on the web site. The new format for the family web site, seems to be quite clean, and I am now feeling a little more confident that I can use the new Blogger interface to build my site again, but we’ll hold off for a little while for now.

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