9 1/2 Weeks - Mollom Hot For Spam Bots

Spam is a huge problem for anyone running a blog but after 9 ½ weeks of using Mollom I'm hot under the collar for this great looking software!
Mollom is great for stopping unwanted content from being published on your website. I use it for my comments and contact form but you could use it for blog posts, registration forms you name it.
Mollom is really hot on spam bots and since activating it I've saved so much time, instead of moderating all my comments I let Mollom do the work for me. It's by no means perfect but it sure does stop a lot of spam getting through.
I was inspired both to try Mollom on my Drupal (plugins for Wordpress and Joomla available) site in the first place, and then to write this piece, by Wim Mostrey's Mollom: 128 Days Later article.
How Does it Work?
If a user posts a comment or other content to your site, your web server sends it to Mollom to be checked. Mollom says whether it thinks the content is spam or not and gives it a quality score. Your web server then accepts or rejects the post depending on quality standards that you set.
They broke every rule!
Those pesky spam bots keep on chucking out spam and Mollom keeps on killing them. Here's a graph for my site over the last 9 ½ weeks:

I'm not sure 2 million attempts have been blocked but just looking at my logs I know it's saved me at least 30 minutes a day having to moderate comments on my blog.
Mollom is no Kim Basinger but it sure is hot for spam bots!
Recent blog posts
- 6 Great Reasons To Get Shot Of Internet Explorer 6
- Blogging For Business Basics
- Are You Barking Up The Wrong Tree?
- Bia Brazil Fitness Wear For A Sexy Stylish Workout
- Battle of Britain Replica Planes Fundraising Appeal
- Marketing A Lifestyle To Drive Sales
- Basic Drupal Site Configuration For a Well Oiled CMS
- Service With A Smile: The Ticket Time Bomb
- Blogging Inspiration and Tips To Build Traffic From Tim Ferriss
- Comment Spam and PageRank Sculpting
Recent comments
- Marketing
2 weeks 3 days ago - Daisy fitness
2 weeks 6 days ago - Google Merchant
2 weeks 6 days ago - Blogging For Business Basics
2 weeks 6 days ago - Marketing In General... has it ever been "honest?"
3 weeks 4 hours ago - Clean design
3 weeks 5 hours ago - Customer Contact
3 weeks 2 days ago - Blogging is the ideal way to dialogue with your customers
3 weeks 2 days ago - Nice Site
4 weeks 1 day ago - Holy Cow! That baby video is
5 weeks 1 day ago
Twitter feed
- makakman: RT @kikolani Valuable Comments, Link Building & Comment Spam - Kikolani http://bit.ly/9kaBXh
- makakman: Twitter Inspects Links To Prevent Spam, Abuse http://tinyurl.com/yag2r92
- makakman: 5 Strategies to Maintain and Improve Your #1 Rankings in Google – After You’ve Reached the Top http://tinyurl.com/yge2ed7 #in
- makakman: @TomChapman I'd be afraid to play it again and spoil the magical memories http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL2T4Yn2Tq8
- makakman: @TomChapman Had to limit myself to using my mates Atari ST sadly, my Spectrum wasn't up to it! The long range 25 yard curlers were brill :o)
Topics
- Design Ideas/Inspiration (11)
- Drupal (16)
- Internet (15)
- Marketing (22)
- Print Finishing (1)
- Print Management (4)
- SEO (6)
- Website design (18)



















Thanks for sharing
Must look at implementing this on my blog too sometime!
Great plugin for your blog
Cheers Arnold, it's definitely worth testing, I for one can vouch for it :)
How does it compare with others
The standard approach for many Wordpress users is to use Akismet, which I find does an excellent job. For e-mail, I use K9 which also performs well. I wonder how Mollom compares with these other well-known alternatives. It's always good to have choices. That makes sure there is continuing improvement.
Mollom, Akismet and Defensio
As far as I know Barry it works in the same way but:
"Mollom does offer some of the same features as Akismet or Defensio, but our goal goes further than spam-blocking alone. We want to increase the overall quality of your site's content. For example, Mollom's CAPTCHA service already helps block fake user accounts, and we are experimenting with various automated content-quality assessments, including blocking obscene, violent and profane content."
If you've tried the alternatives do comment and let us know of your findings, good or bad.
Akismet
I use Akismet on my blog. Simply because it's the most popular for Wordpress. And when I started my blog and was looking for a spam filter I've installed the only I had known.
And frankly speaking I'm satisfied. Never thought about anything else. :)
joomla spam
thanks for the overview. we've been looking for a joomla based spam solution and akismet didn't work. we will try mollum and see how it goes.
Wordpress
Currently i'm using akismet for my wordpress blog. Its helpful to avoid spammy comments. If i find it helpful the one posted by you, i may use it :)
If i get too many comments which seem to be spammy, i may go for no-follow.
Post new comment