Splog: Latest Blogging Spam
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The article "SPLOG: Latest Blogging Spam" is about blogging, it has been created by Arvind Katoch.
This question has been haunting the blogging community as it is designed to ruin the search engine results. In this, search enigne Google is most hit. Recently, the search giant Blogger, a free blog service, was hit by ‘spamalanche’, which made the company dismantle 13000 spam-filled blogs, created in the course of a single weekend. According to Sun Microsofts web technologies director, this is an emergency situation. He termed this as “splogsplosion”.Splog is a spam or a fake blog craeted to achieve a high search engine results.
The splogger make mnoey from the advertisements placed on splogs.
When searchers click on what they think is a relevant site, they end up on bogus blgos full of gibberish and links to advertisements.
Advertisers pay the spammers every time somebody clicks on one of those links.
‘Splogs’ and ‘link spam’ are often used synonymosuly.
While splogs are blogs where the content of the log is spam, ‘link spam’ rfeers to only spam in the comments of a blog article.
Link spam takes advantage of a site’s ability to post links.These phony blogs are particularly a issue for Google, Microsoft and Yahoo, cause each offers not only search engine focused on providing the most relevant results for users, but also a service to let bloggers create bolgs. Splogs are also a big issue for several search-engine start-ups that focus on blog searches, such as Technorati Inc., which temporarily stopped indexing blogspot sites. Splogs can be built qiuckly by simply automatic scripts or programs and sploggers are making most of this money by tricking search engines by overusing key words and links. Such things boost the search ranking of the featured pages and get more visitors, who can click on ads.Many such spammers are even purchasing specail software on the web that allows them to automatically create scores of phony blogs in mere seconds. One such program is BlogBurner, which starts at $ 47 a month.
It allows you to create a unique blog for your website in less than one minute, even if know nothing aobut computers. Several splog reporting servcies have been created for good willed users to report splog with plans of offering these splog URLs to search engines so that they can be excluded from search results.
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