My Wordpress blog and Spam :(

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This is probably a bit of a long shot, but almost every day I'm getting emails asking to verify comments which are all spam. Thankfully I can just mark them as spam in the admin panel, job done, but it would be easier if there's anything that I could implement to reduce it in the first place.

Does anyone have any suggestions/know anything that I could do to help reduce it?
 
I assume you are using akismet?

Comes as default for installations now. Free individual license IIRC.
 
Umm...pass.
I just downloaded the Wordpress files and uploaded to my web server.

*goes to google akismet*
 
OK I've activated it and got myself a free key, now to sit back and wait to see if it does anything! Thanks for the advice :)
 
Thanks, i've just activated this too. When I first clicked it I thought you had to pay, didn't realise you could get it for free! :)
 
it's bill. catches all the spam that is automated. the only spam it doesn't catch but it's impossible for it to is spam humans submit that act as real comments but clearly are posts for links to their website, but that's easy to deal with.
 
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