We use WordPress to run our blog, which we host on a shared server, and we use Akismet to check comments for spam (though the only comments I’ve seen on this blog have been my test comments).
Scott Hemmeter posted a blog entry about using Akismet and PHP to check Web-to-Lead submissions for spam. We are going to start an experiment using Akismet in the following scenarios:
- Web-to-Lead with Google AdWords enabled
- Web-to-Case
Sound good? We’ll keep everyone up to speed.
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I’ve been using the code I wrote for about 1 year so far and it’s literally caught 100% of web to lead spam (maybe about 100 records total; lately I’ve been getting 1 – 3 per day) and I’ve never had a false positive. It’s been very good so far.