Akismet – How to Install Akismet on Your Wordpress Account

Akismet is a tool that is used to detect spam from comments, trackbacks, and contact form messages. This service precisely features filter by combining information involving spam, captured on all participating sites and then take strategies from those spam records in fighting concurrent spam.

  

It was launched in October 25, 2005, by Automatic known as the backbone of Wordpress. Akismet stands for automatic kismet. Matt Mullenweg created this tool with the mindset and purpose of dealing with spam aggregate. In other words, it is a spam-fighting tool.

  Akismet is software which you can freely use for personal purposes. But when it comes to commercial purpose, you set out plans from their plan service ranging from $5 per month.

What You Can Do With Akismet

• ·       You can review the comment spam it catches on your blog’s comment screen.
• ·       You can block the worst spam using the “discard” feature so as to save you space and aid speed to your site.

• ·       View comments status history with the help of Akismet.
• ·       Aids view on caught spam comments which might have been cleared by Akismet.
• ·       Moderators can view the number of approved comments for each user.

However, Akismet serves as a mediator between visitors and a blog site such that visitors submit comments on your blog then Akismet now provides results; informing your blog whether it is harm or spam.

Note: if Google should detect spam comments on your link, it will warrant punishment and as such, I will like to encourage Wordpress users to make use of Akismet for a secure and spam-free web site.

How to install Akismet for your Wordpress Account

Please don’t bother installing Akismet plugin if your site is not powered by Wordpress because Akismet was developed to integrate with a plug-in for Wordpress.

 This has helped to reduce the stress of going through your comment report to fish out for legitimate comments from your site’s comments screen. Should in case you accidentally deleted the software and you don’t know how to ratify it back. Here you will get to know how to install it back again.

To install the Akismet plugin on your Wordpress, follow the below steps:

• 1.       Log in to your Wordpress account.
• 2.       Just at the right side of the page view, locate and click the Plugins tab.
• 3.       Search and locate the Akismet software and click on activate.
• 4.       Once you have activated your Akismet account, click on create new Akismet key. Carefully follow down the on-screen instructions to create a key.
• 5.       You will be sent a confirmation e-mail message. Move to the Akismet plugin page and click on settings. Click on “I already have a key” on the page.
• 6.       Now you have to copy and paste the API key sent to your email account.
• 7.       Click on save changes and finally,
• 8.       Confirm the changes you made by clicking on “save changes”.

Failure to activate/install Akismet will result and endanger your site to becoming a victim of malicious attacks. And this will cause a drop in your site ranking.