Erin The Great

For all you Bloggers out there… I don’t know if you are aware of Akismet Spam collector, but if you aren’t and you don’t have it, prepare to make your life a whole lot easier!

I would get so excited to see a ‘moderate comment’ notice in my e-mail. ‘I’m loved’ I would cry out. I would quickly go to my admin page, and lo and behold there would be 4-5 comments for me to moderate. I was so excited at the anticipation… until I clicked on the ‘moderate comment’ and noticed that it was all Spam. ‘I’m not loved’ I would say as I sighed to myself. This vicious cycle continued on for over 6 months until my friend Nate came over and told me about this wonderful Spam collector. ‘You’ll never go back’ he said with a smile on his face… of course he also said that about the Mac Book, but at least he was right about the Spam collector. Most of my problems were solved in less than 5 minutes.

If you have a wordpress blog, go to your plug-ins and look for ‘Akismet Spam’ and hit activate. This will only activate if you have an account with wordpress (which takes 3 seconds to set up and costs $0). After that, you will be able to moderate actual comments without feeling the displeasure of being led on by false notifications. You’ll never go back and it’s one less thing you have to worry about!