How to Activate the Defensio Plugin to Fight Spam

If there’s one huge inconvenience that you could do without, it’s all the spam that ends up pouring into your comments box. Ever since blogs became a phenomenal online force, spam was no longer just restricted to your e-mail Inbox and Junk folders. Instead, it has wormed its way into blog comment boxes everywhere, ultimately becoming a nuisance to bloggers who can’t afford to waste time deleting one bogus comment after another.

Fortunately, most WordPress bloggers manage to keep spam at bay by protecting their blogs with plugins – such as Defensio — that filter out the spam from their comment boxes.

One of Defensio’s primary features is its ability to rate the “spaminess” of your comments, and highlighting those that are “obviously spam” so you don’t have to read every single comment in your spam list.

Why is this important for you? With a tool that detects “obvious spam” for you, you can have them deleted right away without having to go through the trouble of checking on them. Instead, you can focus your energy on checking comments that have “low spaminess”.

When you identify genuine messages from spam, you’re also tweaking with Defensio’s settings so that you end up with an anti-spam solution that’s unique to your blog’s needs. In other words, Defensio doesn’t work uniformly for every blog, since no two blogs attract the same kind of comments and spam.

With Defensio, what you get is a highly personalized and customized solution for combating spam, which is exactly what your SOLOBIS.net WordPress blog needs.
The good news? It’s already pre-installed in your blog. All you have to do is register your blog in Defensio, retrieve your API key to activate your plugin, and save that key in your SOLOBIS.net blog.

Here’s how to do it:

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Once you’ve clicked through this link, you will be directed to another page where you will be instructed to get an API key to activate Defensio in your SOLOBIS.net blog.

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You will then be asked to sign up for a free account.

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Once you’ve accomplished and submitted the form, you will finally receive your API key with further instructions for installing Defensio into your SOLOBIS.net blog.

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Go back to the Defensio Configuration page in your SOLOBIS.net admin area. You’ll see an empty field for you to enter your API key in. Paste the key onto it, and click on “Save settings”.

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Right under the Defensio API Key field are your settings for your “Obvious Spam Threshold” and “Automatic Removal of Spam”. Obvious Spam Threshold determines the “spaminess” of your comments, and will automatically quarantine comments that achieve a certain spaminess percentage.

The default setting for Obvious Spam Threshold is at 80% for optimum performance.

Don’t forget to check the option for the Automatic Removal of Spam, so that you won’t have tons of annoying spam to deal with at the end of each month.

The moment you have Defensio activated, you’ll have to wait for a couple of days for the plugin to acquaint itself with the kind of comments you receive. At around this time, you’re going to have to tweak with Defensio and correct it if it mislabels some messages as spam, or if it lets certain bogus comments slip through.

In time, Defensio’s functionalities will shape themselves according to your blog’s needs, so that you can finally channel your efforts at blogging for money instead of picking out those spam comments!

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