Why are spam comments appearing against a single post?

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  philipparees · Member · Jun 4, 2014 at 2:57 pm

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  I have consistently been getting spam comments offered against a single post on my blog (Careless Talk) Obviously this post has linked into some ugly spammers. Clearly they do not read the blog or other posts so how can I eliminate this link? Only by deleting and then re-entering the post as a new? Then it will be out of sequencing with others? Please advise.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 4, 2014 at 5:39 pm

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  You cannot control who links to your blog or posts at this end of things. You have to u7se your Google webmasters account to request link removal and we cannot help you with that here.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/

  I have consistently been getting spam comments offered against a single post on my blog (Careless Talk)

  This can mean that you approved a spam comment on the post and now the spammers are hammering at it.

  The vast and overwhelming majority of all so-called information on the internet is spam. Over 80% of all so-called comments submitted to .wordpress.com blogs every day are spam. Spam comes in waves. There are human beings who get paid to post spam. There are robotic programs that post spam.

  There is no such thing as eliminating all spam but Akismet works very well. For more information please take the time to read “5 things every blogger should know about spam” on this page Akismet: How it works http://akismet.com/how/

  Aksimet is a learning engine. If you get spam that slips by Akismet then mark it as spam (do not delete it) and over time Akismet will learn it’s spam. On the spam that Akismet catches on it takes only seconds to click “empty spam” and you don’t even have to click “empty spam” if you don’t want to. Akismet will maintain comments it has caught for 30 days from the time they were received, and then it will delete the comment automatically.

  Akismet is very accurate so trust Akismet. Set up comment moderation, if you have not already done so, because allowing anonymous commenting on your blog is like putting out the welcome mat for spammers.

  This page > Settings > Discussion is where you set up defaults for comments. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  I reduce spam by using this setting:

  3. Automatically close comments on articles older than __ days – This setting can be used to have comments closed on articles that are X days old. As an example, if you only want articles to accept comments for 30 days you would check the box and type 30 into the text field. http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#other-comment-settings

  And I moderate comments too. Comment moderation http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-moderation

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