Comments on: Spam Blogs

By: Wayne Hurlbert

Wayne Hurlbert — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:12:21 +0000

Too many sites, in this case blogs, interlinked to one another are a known filter trigger for Google. They are not only downgraded in the search rankings, but often receive penalties for spamming besides. Interlinking blogs and/or traditional websites is a bad search engine strategy that will not yield good results. It will likely get you banned from Google though.

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:56:59 +0000

I tried one of those as an experiment recently. I didn’t even put ads on it because I was hoping to keep it ethical (though blog ethics is likey a discussion all it’s own). I discovered is after 4300 automated posts filled with relevant links – all on a niche topic – that Google hates it. My handwritten blog on Linux is doing far better.
Hopefully many spam blogs go this way.