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  • August 3, 2022 at 5:49 pm #3987998

    Malware Reviews on the Website Products

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    by harryneils525 · about 10 months ago

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    Kindly someone tells me how we can stop malware or spammy reviews on our website. I am receiving spammy and irrelevant reviews on my website products.

    Note; irrelevant URL removed by moderator.

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    • August 3, 2022 at 6:05 pm #3988001
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      Re: reviews

      by kees_b · about 10 months ago

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      If everybody can post on your website, this is what you get.

      There are ways to get more real reviews, like only accepting reviews for products the user (who has to login with his account or in any other way you can check, like invoice number, postal code and house number) bought the last two months or so. That might be a change in your site you need to hire a developer for, if your webmaster can’t do it himself.

      • August 3, 2022 at 7:01 pm #3988025

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        by harryneils525 · about 10 months ago

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        No, I am getting spammy reviews on my website. They are not relevant to my website products. They are just links to the other websites.

    • August 3, 2022 at 9:45 pm #3988089
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      How do you manage it now?

      by rproffitt · about 10 months ago

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      Sometimes a company will forget to implement a spambot or other filters.

      Even a spambot or filter won’t catch them all so you are left to review content and remove such things.

      • August 4, 2022 at 1:31 pm #3988202

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        by harryneils525 · about 10 months ago

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        is there any recommended plugin for WordPress t block these spammy reviews?

        • August 4, 2022 at 3:35 pm #3988270
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          Here’s why I have to write no.

          by rproffitt · about 10 months ago

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          To get reviews on a WordPress (WP) site there would be yet other plugins. There’s no way I could research what antispam addons would be compatible.

          The plugin that you use to allow reviews should be checked for filters such as NO URL settings. I can’t see any reason to allow URLs in the reviews so that’s an easy filter.

          Banned words such as http could be used as well.

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