Invest a few seconds now to protect your blog from spam, and you will save thousands in future, not to mention protecting your reputation.
Most spam is automatically generated, and you can automatically stop it with WordPress hosting anti-spam plug-ins. A small amount, typically human generated, might creep through. But if you protect yourself against the worst excesses – leaving you time to edit or filter the odd bad comment.
More importantly, it leaves you free to interact with your genuine visitors.
Most importantly, it stops new visitors from ever seeing the, often offensive spam, leaving your reputation intact.
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