How to avoid Spam in my site

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By Chema / 26/02/2015

Old documentation. May be out of date.

Please find the new documentation online here.

$ Spammers Wanted – Disconnected and Alive $

Do you own a classifieds site and you are tired of getting ads like:

African Witches Spell Caster, Magic Healer
Best Love Spell Caster, Black Magic Spells
World class traditional healer, witchcraft charms and spells
work while studying

And lot worst stuff….

Spam it’s really an issue, many times are automated machines or human data entry from underdeveloped countries where they pay cents to people to spam…sad but true.

I am tired too! that’s why at Open Classifieds we have developed a set of tools to help/prevent you from getting this shitty ads and making look bad your site.

WE HAVE THE SOLUTION!

1 – Moderate Ads

Best option is to moderate the ads. With this you are sure you don’t get spam or duplicated ads ;)

Go to the OC control panel and navigate to Settings > General > General site Settings. Set the Moderation option in Moderation On

2 – Black List

Next step is to activate Black List following this link:
http://open-classifieds.com/2014/05/08/activate-blacklist-works/

3- Akismet

You can also activate Akismet entering your Akismet key

You can find more information about Akismet and obtain an Akismet key following this link: https://akismet.com/ its free to use but be aware of false positives.