Why do I have so many spam comments lately?

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  canarygal · Member · Mar 5, 2014 at 10:26 pm

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  I have up to 100 spam comments per day now. Why would this be occurring? Will spam ‘visits’ be included in my statistics? Why can’t I access spam directly from the stats page anymore? What can I do to reduce the volume of spam? Many thanks for your help!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 9:11 pm

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  Hi there,

  Currently, I don’t see any comments in your Spam inbox here:

  https://gwenithwhitford.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php

  Have you already deleted them? If a lot of the spam comments have a common string of text, I suggest adding that string to your blacklist:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/#comment-blacklist

  You can use the comment author’s name, IP address, web site, as well as the comment itself. Please make sure the word is not something contained in non-spam comments. For example, if you enter “press” as a blacklisted word, “WordPress” will match.

  Also, please mark those comments as spam instead of just deleting. Our Akismet anti-spam engine tries to learn from a pattern of the comments that are marked as spam.

  For more information about dealing with unwanted comments, visit:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/unwanted-comments/

  With regards to the statistics, spam visits do record a “hit” to your blog on the stats page. However, you can remove unwanted referrers from your stats page following the instructions here:

  Jetpack Stats

  Finally, you can see the spam comments towards the bottom of your stats page as shown here:

  http://d.pr/i/MSrh

  Let me know if you have any additional questions!

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  canarygal · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 9:50 pm

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  Thanks Jeremey. I do clear my spam comments regularly and they are marked as spam. I will start to blacklist some names and see if that helps. Cheers!

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Mar 7, 2014 at 10:08 pm

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  Please let me know if you have any problems with comments getting through the blacklist filter! Also, let me know if you have any additional questions.