How to Fortify Your Bot Attack and Spam Protection for Google Cloud Apps

Comment spam, also known as "spomment" (spam + comment), occurs when bad actors flood a blog, forum, video, or other social space with text and links in the hope of diverting web traffic back to their site. The spammed sites could be benign attempts to market and sell a product or service, or they might be links to harmful malware.

Spam comments can significantly disrupt the flow of conversations in your digital community. These invasive bot-driven mentions can discourage people from commenting and participating, potentially decreasing views, engagement, and sales.

An effective first-line defense against "spomments" is to use Google reCAPTCHA to distinguish between human-generated and automated posts to your website.

To further ensure that genuine community members can still participate in your digital space, deploy F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense, which engages human domain experts and machine learning to build sustainable bot prediction models that produce a near-zero false-positive rate. Eliminating spam comments protects visitors from harmful sites and helps your company maintain social interactions, knowledge exchanges, and eventual sales.