Guestbook guides
To put a guestbook on your website, sign up for a free UltraGuest guestbook and paste one line of HTML (the embed) or a link into your page. These guides explain each step in plain words, how the moderation and spam protection work, and how UltraGuest compares with other guestbook services; nothing here requires programming knowledge.
Guides
- How to add a guestbook to your website – sign up, verify your e-mail, paste the embed or the link code, match your colours or add custom CSS, and switch on moderation, notifications and the RSS feed. Includes a section for Neocities and other static sites.
- How to add a guestbook to a free Neocities site – why a static site needs a hosted guestbook, the exact code to paste, colours, moderation and notifications, and what the guestbook does not do.
- Guestbook moderation and spam – what every guestbook gets automatically (a human check, AI moderation, no links, rate limits, content rules) and what you can switch on yourself (approval, word filter, blocked IP addresses).
- Frequently asked questions – cost, ads, languages, private messages, exporting and deleting your data, the GDPR, custom CSS and inactive guestbooks.
Comparisons
Choosing a guestbook service is easier with the facts side by side. Each comparison describes the other service with statements taken from its own website in September 2026 and links to it, so you can check the current details yourself.
- UltraGuest vs SmartGB – two hosted guestbook pages with different approaches to themes, ads and links.
- UltraGuest vs HTML Comment Box – a hosted guestbook page next to an embedded comment widget.
- Free guestbook services compared – eleven services in one table.
- And more: Atabook, Bravenet, Webweav.ing, Website Goodies, comment systems, self-hosted scripts, guestbooks for Neocities and closed guestbook services, or all comparisons on one page.
UltraGuest in short
- Free since 2003; no ads, no tracking and no data sales today.
- A hosted guestbook page that you link to, or show inside your own page with the embed, on any website, blog or static site.
- Colours, fonts, a header text and full custom CSS.
- Guestbook pages in 24 languages.
- Human verification and AI moderation on every post, automatic content rules, optional approval of new messages, a word filter and blocked IP addresses.
- E-mail notifications, with a link in each to approve or hide the message, and an RSS feed.
- Download everything as JSON or CSV, or delete the account, whenever you like; bring messages from another service with the importer.
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