Thank you Kathy I will certainly give it a try

Erm, I thought the money thing was just a donation request :/

I created my two sites here as per the instructions in the lessons One to which I selected the slider to $0 as per instructions.

I still don't use and the other is the one I use to promote WA like most other people.

This I blog I did towards the beginning when I started.

Re Akismet plugin

Me too
ken

How do you install Anti-spam bee?

I just tried it and they want money now

Once you have activated the plugin you can ignore the banner. The plugin will still work

They want money for the API key

Go to this link
http://akismet.com/plans/
And you will see this (view attached image) and choose the personal plan. Sign up and there should be a sliding bar where you can choose your own price. Slide it to zero and you should be all set. Or try this also
https://wordpress.org/plugins/si-captcha-for-wordpress/screenshots/
another free plug-in from wordpress

Hi Kenny. Like you, I have multiple sites and the API key is the same for all of them. Maybe you can copy and paste your API from one of your sites onto the next. All my accounts are free. I hope that helps.

it all free

me too - also used the same key on multiple sites without applying - hope this still works and we don't get pursued like some comments seem to suggest.