Day 19
Always check your Spam Filters!
Seriously, I cannot reiterate this enough!
Spam cam be the bane of a blogger’s life, if they don’t have a spam filter activated.
But if you aren’t checking your filter, and ‘caught’ comments regularly, you could be missing some real comments; genuine bloggers caught up in Smap jail!
I make sure I check mine daily.
Most of the time there are the ridiculous, but sometimes even genuine comments are marked as spam.
If I am not sure, I always click on the website or link they are from, to see what comes up. For the most part there is nothing there. But sometimes, you find real comments that need to be restored.
Often if a person has placed a link in their comment, you will find it could be marked as spam, but then again, Akismet shows no rhyme or reason to why they decide a regular commenter is spam-worthy!
Just don’t leave your Spam folder unchecked for too long… That is another way to lose real readers. If they can’t see their comment, or a response, they may not come back…
