Ok…so I have some themes installed and some plugins. I’m posting everyday with keyword rich original content. I have pinged several search engines with my sitemap and I await the cavalcade of traffic.

While I’m waiting I figure that its a good idea to get some type of blog spam protection up and running. Prevention is the key to limiting unecessary work. I searched around and there are seemingly hundreds od solutions available but I selected one based on it’s WordPress plug-in rating and one promotional sentence on the author’s download page:

This plugin will allow you to have a virtually spam-free WordPress blog.

WP-SPAMFREE seems like the solution to my non existant problem so far.

Features

1. Eliminates automated comment spam from bots while ensuring that your commenter is humanoid.
2. A dashboard readout to keep track of all the spam it’s blocking.
3. No annoying CAPTCHA’s, challenge questions or other inconvenience to site visitors – it just works.
4. No false positives, which leads to fewer frustrated readers, and less work for you.
5. Don’t waste valuable time sifting through your Akismet queue, because there won’t be much there.
6. Now with Trackback and Pingback spam protection.
7. Easy to install – truly plug and play. Just upload and activate.
8. The beauty of this plugin is it takes a different approach than most and stops spam at the door.
9. The code is has an extremely low bandwidth overhead.
10. Completely compatible with all cache plugins, including WP Cache and WP Super Cache.
11. Options to completely disable trackbacks and/or pingbacks if they become an excessive nuisance.