PUM: Keep Spam Bots Out of Your Site

Whether or not you followed our Create a Website for Free tutorial, your site or blog may be hit by a wide variety of spammers or bandwidth-wasting bots. Fortunately, blocking this scourge is far more easy than you think. It’s all here in this edition of the Power User Monday Tip of the [almost every] Week.

Update: For those who are curious, I’ve added a note about robots.txt and why it was not originally included in this tutorial.


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