My Akismet API Key Stopped Working

I was putting up a blog and entered my Akismet API and … it didn’t work. I went to another blog and sure enough, it was not working there either. What could be going on? With the recent Google changes, I was wondering if Akismet was dropping API’s too.

A little jaunt over to the Akismet website and, Is This Really Happening goofy look must have come over my face.

The new Akismet price schedule is as follows:

• Pro – $5/mo for a single site
• Enterprise – $50/mo + Multi-site access (low traffic sites)
• High Volume- $100/mo + For hight traffic sites and custom applications

Oh, below those in text only,

• Personal site – $0-$120 Just pay what you want

I just found this quite interesting.

Maybe Akismet had charged in the past. I just had the same API key for some time and have not visited the Akismet site in years.

Okay, let’s look at the four types of YouTube search strings.

The first one is “Relevance.” When calling for videos to add to your site, the default is relevance. If you don’t indicate any, this is the results of the search.

I suggest you click on one of the Halloween links to the right in orange as the sites randomly change the front page. Do it on all four so you can evaluate the differences for your own use.

This particular site, as with the other three that will be shown here, has a search box so you can look for specific Halloween content you want to see. Heck, you can search for anything you want. You will only get “clean” content though. You can check it out by doing an ‘adult’ search. You shouldn’t get any results unless YouTube has yet to evaluate it. I have implemented the “safeSearch” query YouTube provides so the content should be fit for all to view.

Let’s look at a Halloween costume site that uses the default string:

HalloweenGoblins.com
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