Battling blog spam: sploggers - the 'terrorists of Web 2.0'
Bigmouthmedia.com
Welcome to the sorry world of the splog - a spam blog site which is used to increase search engine rankings of associated sites through back linking, gain revenue through PPC ads or just to capture and channel users to another commercial si...
The Problem With Building Content
Search Engine Guide
Other times, I find AdSense splog sites that are simply republishing my RSS feed with a bazillion AdSense ads around it. While I'm not a huge fan of that idea, they are simply listing a brief snippet of my writing and linking back to me for...
A Keynote Conversation with Danny Sullivan and Jason Calacanis
Search Engine Watch
One step up from a splog, at best. Sullivan really shouldn't have, but he got Calacanis to play word association. The first few things that came out of his mouth were cautious and respectful, and you got the feeling he was laboring to be st...
Prius, The Silent Killer! Plus--Why does prosperity require democracy ...
Slate
It's almost a splog. ... P.S.: Would a conservative-majority Roberts Court really be an "ideological mirror image" of the Warren Court--or have even Roberts and Alito internalized many of the Warren Court's legal structures and doctrines? T...
New Google Reader Stats
WebProNews
The key to the feed numbers is to make sure that they are updated daily, which feed burner does, and page flakes did not do. There are still ways around the system though, and in a world of black hat SEO, and splog web sites, this would be ...
Why The Newswire Model Won't Work For Blogs
Tech Dirt
The most likely result, we're guessing, will be the growth of splog-like sites that run only AP articles, in an attempt to generate some ongoing revenue from searches that stumble onto the site The new search engine ...
Copyright Law: What Search Marketers Should Know (Part 2)
Search Engine Watch
Who cares if a splog is going to show up with my content on the seventh page of a search result? It's just not worth it [to pursue]; they can have it." Don't make assumptions. "Don't make assumptions about who's doing the right or wrong thi...
Social marketers may benefit from "Sonar" platform
BizReport.com
Because if few users are logging on or if the blog is more of a splog (spam blog) than a real content site, advertisers may not benefit to being simply one more ad on the over-advertised site. The platform can also be used for message board...
Is Google Blog Search a Techmeme killer? No way.
IT World
The splog operators tune their blogs to scrape content based on hot search keywords, and this content is indexed by Google and Google blog search. This morning, the second blog in the "Apple drops NDA for iPhone app developers" block was a ...
Spam + Blogs = Trouble
Wired
A recent survey by Mitesh Vasa, a Virginia-based software engineer and splog researcher, found that in December 2005, Blogger was hosting more than 100,000 sploggers. (Many of these are likely pseudonyms for the same people.) Google, Goldma...