Did some additional site maintenance tasks today. For unknown reasons, the reCAPTCHA plugin is not stopping spam comments on one of my posts. Only that particular post is affected; non of my other entries seem to be getting swamped by comments. In frustration, I decided to apply for an API key at wordpress.com and activate Akismet, yet another spam catching service. Let’s see how effective Akismet is.
A commenter also inquired about my PageRank and Alexa Rank. Being new to the blogging world, this is the first time I’ve heard about AlexaRank. A few minutes of Googling revealed that Alexa Rank is a pure indicator of traffic volume. It also revealed two tools for checking the PageRank and Alexa Rank of a site, namely www.timlua.com and www.smartpagerank.com. Not surprisingly, blogvesting.com currently has a PageRank and Alexa Rank of zero. Most bloggers say it takes anywhere from 1-2 years for a site to begin to attract a significant amount of traffic, so I’m not particularly distressed by this. I wish I could say the same thing about my stock investments, given the recent market volatility. Still, ability to stomach market corrections is part and parcel of investing.
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Hello,
Please take a look at our FAQ about spam from the wordpress plugin:
HELP, I’m still seeing comment spam
There are two common issues that make reCAPTCHA appear to be broken, but are actually not problems.
* Moderation emails: reCAPTCHA marks comments as spam, so if you get moderation emails when spam comments are sent, you will get moderation emails for all spam comments with reCAPTCHA. We highly recommend turning off moderation emails with reCAPTCHA.
* Trackbacks and Pingbacks: reCAPTCHA can’t do anything about pingbacks and trackbacks. You can disable pingbacks and trackbacks in Options | Discussion | Allow link notifications from other Weblogs (pingbacks and trackbacks).