Every website owner or webmaster grapples with the problem of spam on website forms. The amount of spam is so large that it becomes very difficult to find useful information in it. To make this problem even worse, spam can infiltrate public pages and show up in comments and reviews. You probably know that this can damage your website’s reputation, affect search results, overload your web server, and take your focus away from website development.
Website owners and webmasters need a solution to this problem. The following requirements should be considered when choosing an anti-spam solution:
- This solution should work automatically and should not require manual spam checking.
- This should provide a quick and efficient method of quality control.
- It should be universal, protecting all website forms at the same time.
- Installation and setup should be easy and straightforward.
- Your visitors don’t need to take any extra steps to verify that they’re human and not bots.
CleanTalk anti-spam solution
CleanTalk Anti-Spam is a cloud-based tool designed to block many types of spam that website administrators encounter every day. This includes spam in comments, contact forms, signups, registrations, subscriptions, newsletters, WooCommerce reviews and checkouts.
This solution has the following advantages:
- All spam-related calculations and decisions are handled on remote servers, offloading web servers thanks to cloud technology.
- The service dashboard provides detailed insight into website requests and provides tools to manage service functionality. Clearly indicates whether the request is spam.
- The plugin can be easily installed and configured on any website in just minutes.
- This one solution protects all forms on your website.
- Spam checks are performed non-disruptively for site visitors, so no action is required on the part of site visitors.
Some important service functions need to be explained separately.
- spam firewall – This feature blocks the most active spamming bots before they even visit your website.
- Email address verification – A function that verifies the legitimacy of an email address in real time.
- Encoding contact data – This feature encodes email addresses displayed on public pages to protect them from parsing by bots.
Let’s take a WordPress example
1) To install the plugin: Go to your WordPress dashboard โ[ใใฉใฐใคใณ],[ๆฐ่ฆ่ฟฝๅ ]โ enter “CleanTalk” in the search field.
2) Install and activate the plugin. You will automatically be redirected to the plugin settings.
3) Click “Obtain access keys automatically” and save the settings. At this point, your CleanTalk account will be created. Your account credentials will be sent to your email.
that’s it! Your his website is now protected from spam. Spam attempts are blocked immediately.
Test protecting a contact form with WPForms as an example
To test your form, open your website in a new incognito tab. This is necessary because the plugin does not register actions taken by the administrator.
Go to the page containing the contact form and enter your test email address. [ s@cleantalk.org ]. Click the “Send” button to send the data. If data is blocked, a corresponding message is displayed.
The CleanTalk plugin captures website requests made via contact forms and forwards the collected data to the CleanTalk cloud for processing. In the cloud, a decision about “spam/non-spam” status is made. This status is relayed to the plugin, which either forwards the form data to the website backend or blocks it. This request data is recorded in the anti-spam logs within the service dashboard.
You can access your anti-spam logs by going directly to your dashboard or by opening the plugin settings and clicking the “Click here to get anti-spam statistics” button.
Features of the Service Dashboard
Anti-Spam Logs – This tool provides insight into all website requests processed by the CleanTalk Cloud, including status and additional details.
Each request contains:
- Status โ Rejected or Approved
- date and time of the request
- Sender’s username, IP, and email address
- Spam activity linked to these IP and email addresses
- Email Address Verification Result โ Fake or Real
You can access full information by clicking “Details” below each request.
This feature ensures that no data is missed and allows you to monitor the accuracy of the filtering process. Another notable feature of the CleanTalk plugin is that it captures data even if the visitor makes a typo or fails the built-in form validation and makes that data available in anti-spam logs. .
The dashboard also allows you to:
- Manage the list of protected websites.
- Update your account settings.
- View summary statistics.
- Manage your personal list of IPs, emails, stopwords, countries and languages.
These features make our anti-spam service a robust solution for spam protection and protecting your website from unwanted messages and requests.
Conclusion
A strong spam filter is essential for your website. CleanTalk Anti-Spam has a one-week free trial to validate its effectiveness in controlling spam on your site. The service starts at $12/year and $25/month for unlimited website use. Instead of manually moderating and reviewing messages, delegate this task to CleanTalk.
