WordPress Akismet Top Spam Protection Free WordPress Plugin
As of today having business website is a need to have your business successfully rolling up the ladder. But there comes challenges when you start building your site with specific products and services offered and try to rank it on famous search engines.
What is Akismet and why your WordPress website or Blog should have this Freeware plugin To Avoid Spam ?
Keeping up with your competitors is one of those challenges by which a whole new market strategy evolved that is Search Engine Optimization(SEO).
What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) and how it is related o Akismet Anti Spam ?
SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a technique by which we can rank our business website,our services links, our products links, our Android or IOS apps to the top search page results on famous search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, Yahoo, Baidu etc
There are numerous strategies that are being followed around the world to achieve this (Ranking on top) goal by which these are the most sensitive and important.
1-Quality content related to business.
2-Having good and high authority back links converting traffic back to your website.
See article for an amazing Blogger Neil Patel here: How to Build High-Quality Backlinks when Nobody Knows Your Name
Acquiring quality back-links for your website is one tough job. Now there are always ways around every thing in this world and they are mostly not authentic and advised to follow.One of them is acquiring back links by using spamming some other site which is performing well on search engines like Google on certain keywords.To avoid these spammers to violate your website security and authority in-front of Google we use Anti Spam Plugins like Akismet.
How spammers acquire back links? Using comment forms inside your website Blog ?
Spammers paste links of their website or some one else’s website who is paying them to acquire fast results on some one else website blog section which was genuinely or organically performing well like you can see in the image attached below.
Adding spam in contact form section
Now Mr John Snow is adding a a Back link through Anchor tag. Web developers will know how this works or you can read an article over here.
Its kind of weird ?? Yes !
Previously WordPress didn’t have option to moderate comments that are pasted onto contact forms of comment section but with too much spam reported to wordpress and unwanted links related to your website WordPress has taken action and have added Comments moderation.
Still there are certain places where you greatly need Akismet to control and moderate these kind of comments.
How to install Akismet Anti Spam on wordpress website ?
Following are the steps to install and configure Akismet successfully on your WordPress website.
Step One: Searching Akismet on WordPress.
After installing wordpress go to plugins panel and select add new.
Adding new plugin in wordpress
Step Two: Adding & Installing Akismet plugin.
Search for Akismet in the search area and press the Install now button as shown in the picture attached below then Activate it.This is free of cost and Akismet charge no cash and money on basic accounts.
Here are the pricing plans for Akismet that you can view on their official website.
Step Three Last Step: Entering API Key Configuring with WordPress.
Go to Akismet plugin settings there you can see it requires an API key that you can get by creating a free account on their official website.
After signing up on their website you will select $0/year package as shown in the picture attached below.
Some one said FREE ??
After signing up you would be provided with an API key that you can enter in the plugin settings and activate your free subscription.
Here is the image for the API key.
