There are quite a few pieces of software out there on the market that are designed to spam WordPress websites. The software applications are designed to blast as many WordPress sites as possible with spam comments in order to get backlinks or to promote a service. These automated systems are also used heavily to promote online scams.

Thankfully, the majority of automated comment spam can be stopped before you even see it. Wealthy Affiliate is equipped with "Site Protect" which blocks the majority of spam.

Every member of the Wealthy Affiliate community has the assistance of Site Protect running in the background. You can see this working for you by navigating to your website stats within Wealthy Affiliate and then clicking on the "details" button.

You will see that Site Protect is switched on and actively defending your website...

Site Protect works 24/7 and does a fantastic job of blocking automated comment spam. However, there are some unwanted comments that will still get through.

The spammers are pretty clever and know that in order to get a comment onto your WordPress blog it would have to look like a genuine comment. For that reason many spammers create lengthy comments that look pretty genuine to spam blocking software.

So how do we stop those comments? Lets take a look...