Akismet is the plugin which is installed by default in every wordpress installation (you just need to activate it). It is very helpful in blocking huge amount of spam comments which would have either hit your blog. If you find a wordpress blog than you should be rest assured that it is using akismet.

Problem starts when akismet starts recognizing your own blog URL as spam. The result is that whenever you leave a comment on various wordpress blogs along with your blog URL, it doesn’t appear on those blogs even after trying many times. I was hit with this problem recently and almost for around 20 days I wasn’t able to leave a comment on various akismet enabled blogs. It is very frustrating as leaving good comments on blogs with similar niche as yours is the best way to publicize your infant blog.

I contacted many bloggers to remove my comment from spam and mark it as not spam. Akismet says that if people frequently mark your blog URL as not spam than akismet will learn and avoid blocking your URL as spam. I worked on this too for so many days but with no results.

Than I contacted the people at akismet and explained them of my problem. It took around 2 working days for them to contact me back with the apologies and informing me that my URL will now not be blocked by akismet. They even gave me a test page to test if I am still being blocked.

Check if your URL is being blocked as spam and contact akismet in case it is being blocked as spam.

Kudos to akismet for her awesome work.

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