Blogspot: Prone to Splogging?
Tuesday
Oct 18, 2005
Mark Cuban of Icerocket writes on Blogger/Blogspot’s being prone to spam blogs (which he aptly calls splogs–a term he coined himself recently):
It was exactly two months ago I wrote about problems that Icerocket.com and really, the entire blogosphere was having with Splogs created and maintained on Blogger.com, with a blogspot.com URL.
Well the Shit hit the fan today.
The blogosphere was hit by a blogspot.com splogbomb. Someone did the inevitable and wrote a script that created blog after blog and post after post.
Im not talking 100 blogs with a 100 posts each. Im talking what could easily turn into 10s of THOUSANDS of blogs pinging out millions of posts !
Get Your Blogspot Shit Together Google – Blog Maverick
IMHO, any blogging service with too easy a sign-up system is prone to being a splog host. And I agree with Mark that splogs are as polluting to the blogosphere as coal-fired power plants are to the atmosphere.
Splogging is usually done for SEO purposes. Just another black-hat technique for earning that high Google pagerank. But pretty soon it might be a cause for black-listing.
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