How to Stop Spammers On Your WordPress Site

Posted by erikemanuelli under Global
From http://www.webhostingsecretrevealed.net 2647 days ago

Spam can become a really big problem when you are running a WordPress website or blog. Even under normal circumstances, without even attempting to make your blog popular, your website is likely to receive traffic from automated bots, scrapers and crawlers.

Almost 61.5% of all web traffic is non human as of 2013. This non human traffic component, as a percentage of total web traffic, is only increasing.

So non human traffic growth is outstripping the organic traffic growth from real humans browsing the web. Web bots are far easier to build than ever before and as a result spam seems to increase as a function of time.

Without effective automated counter measures, dealing with spam is time consuming, annoying and painfully slow.