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Blogger need help. Too much spam
By maurizio | August 28, 2007
I previously posted about Blogger spam and I have to post again to warn you (all 25 readers :-/ ): Blogger is filled with spam blogs. If you try their “next blog” button, 3 times out of 4 you’ll get to a spam blog. I noticed that you don’t see anymore AdultFriendFinder spam, but the Cam-thing is still there. Some of them use AuctionAds instead of AFF. Most of them have the same small icon for the chinese Stats counter, so I don’t get why Google isn’t stopping them, especially now that they have such a simple way of knowing which one is spam. It’s not that difficult, they just have to parse the html for a link to that stats counter with the correct id (just to leave honest Chinese people in).
I’ve found another kind of spam blogs, they looks like simple blogs with just a couple of posts, but if you read them, you’ll notice either the same identical text of the sex splogs (which it’s taken from other sites) or just some very odd text, that it’s easy to guess isn’t written by a blogger.
Look at this: http: about-uskgcbodjn blogspot com (I will never post the complete link of those splogs). About us : Colon Flush????
Is Google becoming evil or they just don’t care about that? I think we should send Googles engineers a link to their own page:
Content rules
Topics: Ramblings | 7 Comments »
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August 28th, 2007 at 11:22 am
Yeah im agree i hate that ! can be Porno or spam…
August 28th, 2007 at 11:26 am
You are right! I notice the same sblogs!
The one I see now stole its content from ezinearticles. and has the button pointing to 51.la
August 29th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Google should hire you, Maurizio, to help get rid of the splogs…
August 29th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Thanks for the comment Paula. You know what? I applied for a position at Google but they rejected me after 3 interviews. :(
Well..at least I survived 3 interviews :)
September 4th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Hi, Maurizio.
Thank you for visiting my blog at geomatika6.blogspot.com
Yesterday, my blog was sentenced by Google as a spam blog. I don’t get it. It contains no sex stuff at all. It’s a geomatika (geo informatics) community blog, written in Bahasa Indonesia (and some english).
I wonder what made google thought that it was a spam blog (although it is normal now). could you tell me ?! thanks
September 4th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Hi Mervandi,
I think they are experimenting with algorithms and they have found your post about chain links (4.8.07) which is full of links to sites in different niches/areas. Maybe that thing triggered their attention.
I’m happy to see that now everything is ok.
September 5th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
thanks for your answer. Actually i posted the chain link after i got normal from spam blog, but using ‘ancient’ date stamp.