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xfalmp · 10-28-2005, 10:33 AM

Google Draws Fire Over Blogspot Spam Blogs

The explosion of spam blogs on Google's Blogspot hosting service is drawing a chorus of condemnation from prominent bloggers, and has led at least one blog search service to stop indexing posts on Blogspot. The growth of spam blogs has accelerated in recent months, fueled by automated tools that can create blogs on Blogspot and some similar services and populate them with keyword-optimized posts and Google AdSense advertisements.

About 39,000 fake blogs have been created on the web in the past two weeks, according to an analysis by **********, or about 4.6 percent of the 805,000 new weblogs created in that period. FightSplog, which has been monitoring new blogs at Blogspot, recently documented 2,763 porn splogs created by a single "splogger." Blogspot-based spam blogs recently began featuring names of prominent bloggers in posts, boosting the splogs' visibility in searches at web-based RSS aggregators like Feedster, PubSub and Bloglines.

The move prompted IceRocket to stop indexing new posts from Blogspot.com, according to a blunt post from Mark Cuban, a major investor in IceRocket. Cuban says Blogspot indexing will resume once filters are adjusted, but warned Google to fix the problem or face a permanent ban. Bloggers are also focusing their fire on Google, which has stepped up its splog-squashing efforts in recent weeks but still can't keep pace with the automated instasplogs. "If your motto truly is to do no evil, then you need to start putting some resources behind an effort to curb this train wreck," LockerGnome's Chris Pirillo advised Google.

"Page-rank is under attack and the attackers are winning," writes Dave Winer at Scripting News. "It won't be long before Google itself is infested. ... It's time for Google to get on top of this. They're both the victimizer and the victim. The spammers found a huge hole in Page-rank."

But Google itself seems to have closed that hole, according to Jeff Jarvis, who noted that searches on Google are free from the splog listings found in identical searches on PubSub and IceRocket, among others. "Google needs to both fix Blogspot and share its secrets for ignoring blogspam," Jarvis writes.

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/20...pam_blogs.html

Ok, question is: who GFYer created those 2763 fake blogs?

JD · 10-28-2005, 10:34 AM

wasn't me....

:::shiftyeyes:::

twan · 10-28-2005, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by SPeRMiNaToR

wasn't me....

Me neither

But it worries me, and the splogs are not only porn blogs, they are gambling blogs and even stock/trade blogs, everything that spammers do can be applied to a blog it seems...

Tom_PM · 10-28-2005, 10:40 AM

Gotta just remember that ultimately, when it comes right down to it, we gotta have relevant pages for relevant searches. IMO, theres nothing wrong with a nice script to help speed up building pages. But they have to be smartly done.

Crypt · 10-28-2005, 10:42 AM

5678

sexybabe · 10-28-2005, 10:44 AM

shit i lost more than 200 blogs

BigRod · 10-28-2005, 10:45 AM

Oppsss sorry :P

Sosa · 10-28-2005, 10:45 AM

damn blog spammers

EroticySteve · 10-28-2005, 10:47 AM

I don't think i've ever heard Google say, "Don't send me so many pages".

The problem isn't quantity, it's quality. Quality has taken the backseat to keyword rich crap that offers the end user no value.

You can win the SEO game if you have 100,000 pages that are useful and relevant to the end user.

Chio · 10-28-2005, 10:48 AM

Exactly why autoblogger pro is better than the sploggers (ie rss2blog)

Autoblogger pro makes real blogs not spammed rss mish moshery. ICQ me for demos, and se stats, or see sig.

pornguy · 10-28-2005, 10:48 AM

Not me,. I have three on there. Made and updated by hand.

u-Bob · 10-28-2005, 10:50 AM

only lost 1 blog the past 2 months.... still got plenty up and running

who · 10-28-2005, 10:50 AM

Back when it first started I auto generated about 1000 blogs.

That sure was a blast!

Chio · 10-28-2005, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PR_Tom

Gotta just remember that ultimately, when it comes right down to it, we gotta have relevant pages for relevant searches. IMO, theres nothing wrong with a nice script to help speed up building pages. But they have to be smartly done.

Yup. See sig

OzMan · 10-28-2005, 11:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chio

Exactly why autoblogger pro is better than the sploggers (ie rss2blog)

Autoblogger pro makes real blogs not spammed rss mish moshery. ICQ me for demos, and se stats, or see sig.

Some people are happy with your program as it does what they want it to and is adequate for their basic needs and that is fine but

sorry you keep ignorantly slamming rss2blog, so I gotta say something. Remember last week when you were slamming rss2blog saying "it is just an rss aggregator" lol You should have bought or at least researched half a dozen "competitors" before putting yours out there.

From what you have told me and what I've seen, autoblogger pro has one or two features that rss2blog doesn't have (yet), like adding links to pre specified keywords.

Conversely rss2blog has many features that "auto"blogger pro doesn't have.
The most important one is being able to post to an unlimited amount of blogs/domains remotely on any of four or five blog platforms from one interface, not limited to 10 domains with the script hosted locally on each only on wordpress like your network version is for what $150 or so? 10 domains isn't much of a blog network

If you are posting pulled rss feeds, you are producing the exact same "mish moshery" as anyone else. You also don't appear to be giving credit to the original source or linking to them which violates mosts feeds terms of use. rss2blog includes nofollow tags to links in order to comply with this.

If you then as you say, go in and edit the posts to make them more real or add keywords or whatever, then you should take the "auto" out of your program. The only "real" blog is one that is handwritten by the owner. Anything else produced with your program, rss2blog or any other auto poster is a splog..99% of all auto generated posts are made to appear real to produce affiliate income and hopefully stay under the radar should a manual reviewer come by from Google or wherever.

Right now I could do most, if not all of what your program does, using free wordpress plugins so I don't see any need to switch from my present setup.

xfalmp · 10-28-2005, 02:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chio

Exactly why autoblogger pro is better than the sploggers (ie rss2blog)

Autoblogger pro makes real blogs not spammed rss mish moshery. ICQ me for demos, and se stats, or see sig.

I still would like to see demo or a screenshot from ABP.

Kevsh · 10-28-2005, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xfalmp

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About 39,000 fake blogs have been created on the web in the past two weeks, according to an analysis by **********, or about 4.6 percent of the 805,000 new weblogs created in that period.

If it's true 800K blogs were created in 2 weeks, I'd say more like 750K of them are "fake"/spam blogs or - and this is worse - vanity blogs. You know, the ones where you post every tiny detail of your mundane life in the hopes you'll gain lots of fellow bloggers as, ahem, friends?

They should filter those too ;)

$5 submissions · 10-28-2005, 02:51 PM

Hopefully, Google won't overreact and overly penalize rss site/blog SERPS the way they penalized fake search engines/directories over the past year.

Although webmasterlabor.com operates a huge blog network, we stock it with fresh new material/100% original content. We can do the same for you--full time writers = $450 per month.

10-28-2005, 10:33 AM	#1
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who So Fucking Banned Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ICQ #23642053 Posts: 19,593	Back when it first started I auto generated about 1000 blogs. That sure was a blast!

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