It’s time for Google to act on Blogger
The Strange World of Blogspot Spam Blogs
"I have heard of trackback spam. Heck, I have even had to remove my fair share of it! But for someone to create a Blogspot blog just to create posting spam - that is simply sad.
"'I've been cruising the Blogspot world lately looking for cool stuff that the bigger geeklogs might have missed (and I found some cool knitting sites as a result last time I did this). What I've found, though, is that a large percentage (maybe up to a third) of all Blogspot blogs are spam-logs - sites created to increase the Google ranking of some other site (which is itself usually a Google-spamming site). The ultimate purpose of these spamlogs is usually to drive traffic to a commission-paying pharmacy, pr0n, or casino site.
"'Some of the spamlogs hosted at Blogspot, which apparently does not have a policy against them, are obvious in their intent (for example). It requires a human to start a new Blogspot-hosted site, but after the initial setup (which can be partially aided by scripts, I'm sure), bots can post like crazy. Usually the posts are strings of highly searched terms (like the names of celebrities, TV shows, or something Google Adsense pays a lot for, like asbestos litigation), with a link to the external site that the spammer is trying to bump up in the Google rankings.' [Read the rest]"
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It’s time for Google to act on Blogger
" ... amongst the crowd of blog fraudsters and thieves one service stands out as the choice of the spamming scum, and that’s Google’s Blogger ... Google remains to [sic] busy launching yet another new feature or another every day of the week and ignores the fact that its servers contain more spam blogs than any of its competitors 100 times over. As more and more spam blogs are created, search engine results become more and more polluted. Sure, you could argue that as market leader Google would never threaten one of its own businesses. But its not Google that’s the concern. As Google results become more polluted web surfers will start to turn to Google’s competitors for their search needs. Current and new service providers will start to offer blog free search, or at least blogspot.com free search ..."
Source: Blog Herald
"I have heard of trackback spam. Heck, I have even had to remove my fair share of it! But for someone to create a Blogspot blog just to create posting spam - that is simply sad.
"'I've been cruising the Blogspot world lately looking for cool stuff that the bigger geeklogs might have missed (and I found some cool knitting sites as a result last time I did this). What I've found, though, is that a large percentage (maybe up to a third) of all Blogspot blogs are spam-logs - sites created to increase the Google ranking of some other site (which is itself usually a Google-spamming site). The ultimate purpose of these spamlogs is usually to drive traffic to a commission-paying pharmacy, pr0n, or casino site.
"'Some of the spamlogs hosted at Blogspot, which apparently does not have a policy against them, are obvious in their intent (for example). It requires a human to start a new Blogspot-hosted site, but after the initial setup (which can be partially aided by scripts, I'm sure), bots can post like crazy. Usually the posts are strings of highly searched terms (like the names of celebrities, TV shows, or something Google Adsense pays a lot for, like asbestos litigation), with a link to the external site that the spammer is trying to bump up in the Google rankings.' [Read the rest]"
Source
It’s time for Google to act on Blogger
" ... amongst the crowd of blog fraudsters and thieves one service stands out as the choice of the spamming scum, and that’s Google’s Blogger ... Google remains to [sic] busy launching yet another new feature or another every day of the week and ignores the fact that its servers contain more spam blogs than any of its competitors 100 times over. As more and more spam blogs are created, search engine results become more and more polluted. Sure, you could argue that as market leader Google would never threaten one of its own businesses. But its not Google that’s the concern. As Google results become more polluted web surfers will start to turn to Google’s competitors for their search needs. Current and new service providers will start to offer blog free search, or at least blogspot.com free search ..."
Source: Blog Herald
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