Comments on: Blogspot Blogs to be Deleted from some Search Engines to combat Spam Blogs?

By: Yuan Meng

Yuan Meng — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 23:56:45 +0000

My friends blog receives a lot of spam comments. He has to closed it after two years running.

By: Paolo Amoroso

Paolo Amoroso — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:07:37 +0000

The essay “The Destiny of Blacklists” by Paul Graham is worth a read: http://www.paulgraham.com/spamhausblacklist.html

By: Ireland SEO Marketing :: Which Blogging Platform To Use

Ireland SEO Marketing :: Which Blogging Platform To Use — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 23:23:56 +0000

[...] One feature blogger has that has caused chaos in the blogspot world is that Google added a spam feature which started disabling lots of blogs. Although this is very old news it is something that still happens today and even to Google who deleted their own blog back in early 2006. [...]

By: man fancy

man fancy — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 11:32:32 +0000

brings back memories of 9th grade english class where sister ann punished the whole class when a few of kids in the back misbehaved.

By: Somewhat Frank

Somewhat Frank — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 23:40:44 +0000

I recently created Splog Reporter to help combat splog in the blogosphere. Check out this post to learn more about it: http://www.somewhatfrank.com/2005/08/splog_reporter_.html
Also be sure to visit: http://www.splogreporter.com

By: BAMBY

BAMBY — Sat, 20 Aug 2005 01:23:14 +0000

Oh, my goddness! Spam blogs flagged. Yes, we need that!

Now all google needs is to put this in their spam search engine when all the porn crap comes up. Wait they wont do that, that is their biggest money maker!

You didnt know Google was into porn? Wakeup….

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:41:03 +0000

Good news that may help reduce some of the spam blogs on blogspot. Blogger has just recently added a flag button on the top bar next to the “next blog” button.

I wonder how quick the blogger staff will be in dealing with spam blogs once people start flagging them? There could be too many out there I suppose….

By: Jim Parham

Jim Parham — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:55:58 +0000

I believe “spam that pollutes the blogosphere” should be referred to as “SMOG”

Jim Parham (Swing Trader/Creative Thinker)
Yuba City, CA 95993
stockmaverick@gmail.com

By: basimo.de

basimo.de — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 19:41:08 +0000

Blogspot-Block

Mark Cuban, Besitzer der Blog-Suchmaschine IceRocket, schreibt, dass kostenlose blogspot-Blogs kurz davor sind, aus den Suchmaschinen verbannt zu werden. Der Grund ist, dass ein großer Teil der dort gehosteten Blogs Spam Blogs, sogenannte Splogs, sin…

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 16:09:13 +0000

Dave, you’re far from being what anyone would consider a spammer. You write your own content about your own sites, and that’s great. It might be marketing, but it certainly isn’t spam.

The spam blogs we’re talking about are generally posted to by an automated script, and the posts are nothing but (a) long lists of keywords and links to other spam sites, or (b) content stolen via RSS from other sites.

You shouldn’t be worried about Blogger thinking you’re a spammer, but you might worry that search engines (and the public) will inevitably take your site a bit less seriously because it’s on Blogger.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:08:46 +0000

Hmm, perhaps I should bea little concerned then, as I use blogger for my blog. Although I only recently started it up, I use it because I didn’t want to pay for soemthing that may not have got me hooked.

I’d possibly now consider moving over to a ‘professional’ package, I hadn’t realised that the volume of spam blogs was so high.

Would the fact that I use my blog to talk about one of my main websites be considered spam? My blog has no specific remit, I use it to talk about anything and everything, and sometimes this involves cross-promotion of my main site. Is there some set of guidelines about what you are allowed to mention on your blogger.com blog site????

I’m a little confused about the protocol here – is this a case of the big boys looking down their noses at the little people?

By: SIXTUS.NET | Mario Sixtus, freier Journalist

SIXTUS.NET | Mario Sixtus, freier Journalist — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 12:04:58 +0000

[...] Heute: Splog f�r Spam-Blog. [...]

By: Independent Sources » Blog Archive » Blogspot Blogs to be Deleted from some Search Engines to combat Spam Blogs?

Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:38:35 +0000

[...] Problogger: Blogspot Blogs to be Deleted from some Search Engines to combat Spam Blogs? Mark Cuban, owner of Ice Rocket, writes that blogs hosted on free blogspot domains are getting close to being eliminated from Ice Rocket and other search engines because of the increasing problem of Spam Blogs (or Splogs as they’ve been called a lot more lately). Mark also puts the finger onto Google for not doing enough about Splogs: [...]

By: insider

insider — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 06:37:12 +0000

Independent Sources has been waiting for this shoe to drop. We moved off of Blogspot several months ago. On any given Technorati search I get far too many spam sites (splogs) for this to continue unabated.

By: HART

HART — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:44:08 +0000

Wow… just like that, someone can decide to delete all blogger.com blogs out of existence. I worry more from sites – or I should say people, persons, egos …. like icerocket.com .. than I do with the “splogs” (as you call them) for experimenting ways to increase traffic in their other websites. Not everybody can just transfer funds from their adsense account into their adwords account. And, as for the ratio when you surf “NEXT” in blogger, I think it’s very dependent on the posting at the time, so if you try at different times in the day, you get a different ratio.

But – you can the hit next .. Someone thinks you are spam, or a splog and deletes you from existence.. what’s next? your a liberal, democat, punk, wussy? You have poor web design??

I am on the same side as Angela – the general public and users will determine if it’s legit or not .. if it’s not working, it will go away .. and then just like everything else that has existed – something else will take it’s place.

By: Angela

Angela — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 02:13:22 +0000

I don’t see how this is any different from informational sites vs. sites that host spam. In the end the success is in the eye of the beholder and it’s up to the visitor to decide if your site is worth stickin’ around. If it’s legit we’ll find it and if it’s not we’ll delete it. It’s that simple.

By: Toivo Lainevool

Toivo Lainevool — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 00:13:58 +0000

I blogged about this issue a little while ago. I think the blog search sites like Technorati, Bloglines and Icerocket are more to blame for these problems than Blogger (and Google by association). Until recently they didn't have to worry about spam blog, but now they do. It's much like the early days of general search engines. The blog search services just need to find ways to deal with it.

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 23:39:33 +0000

A few times when I created a new blogspot blog and a couple times when I posted I noticed a human-only-readable code that required to be typed in. Not sure if this was being experimented by blogger designers or not. Seems like this will be needed for all blog creation and blog posting.

Then after they implement this system, if a blog hasn’t been updated in 6 months (or some amount of time) it should be removed (or at least not viewable).

By: Athomemama

Athomemama — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:42:39 +0000

Isn’t blogger owned by Google?

By: Allan Burns

Allan Burns — Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:04:45 +0000

It seems Google is coming down harder on bad sites. It’s not only Splogs but directories as well, nice way to get rid of any competition.

Tarring all free blog bloggers with the same brush is unfortunate but I must admit that it is becoming a big problem.

Human moderation is the key, it’s the only sure way to make sure spam doesn’t get through.