Inundated with Spam

Lately I’ve been getting bombarded with spam on my website blog, JDBaluch.com. Normally Akismet, the Wordpress plugin for flagging and removing spam, seems to catch most of the offending comments and keeps them quarantined out of my site but as of late, Akismet hasn’t really been doing a very good job. This weekend alone I received nearly 60 emails from my wordpress server notifying me of new incoming comments that WERE NOT being quarantined by Akismet. It got so bad, in fact, that I had to disable all email notifications for new comment delivery. This morning when I finally sat down to add a post or two and look at the health of my server, I noticed nearly 1200 new comments flagged by Akismet as spam.

Does anyone even look at spam? How successful of a marketing strategy is it for a company to blast comments for penis enlargement and illegal prescription pharmaceuticals all over the net — and especially on my page?! I just don’t get how it pays off, other than potentially increasing PageRank on Google’s search engine.

I truly hate spam.