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By: Quaequam Blog! » Blog Archive » The rise of the spamblog

Quaequam Blog! » Blog Archive » The rise of the spamblog — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:26:42 +0000

[...] the spamblog. I’m not sure if that is the correct term for them (although I notice at least one other person refer to them as such), but they are those weblogs, apparently entirely bot created which do [...]

By: a feminist, lost in the patriarchy

a feminist, lost in the patriarchy — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 23:29:47 +0000

Spam Blogs Putting A Spanner In The Works…

I’m officially on my Easter academic break right now, and what better way to spend a lazy Saturday afternoon than browsing the blogsphere?
The tool of choice has lately been Technorati. I tend to randomly put words into their search engine and s…

By: Hunting spamblogs continued: splogs and splogreporter

Hunting spamblogs continued: splogs and splogreporter — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:32:52 +0000

[...] ith SplogReporter.com, a centralised public blacklist of spamblogs, similar to my (failed) suggestion of tagging spamblogs using services like furl or del.icio.us. I still don&# [...]

By: Splog Fighter

Splog Fighter — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 22:10:48 +0000

I for one have started a splog fighting blog and I will be going after splogs one by one. Current splogs tend to be AdSense policy violators and that makes them bit easier to curb the growth. I do believe the hard core email spammers will eventually move into splog territory. That’s when things are going to get ugly.

By: Kailash Nadh

Kailash Nadh — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:14:30 +0000

I receive thousands of spam blog pings every day at Pingoat.com ;( [ Even after all the antispam measures that have been employed ].

A public black list, or a certification etc.. wont just work. Its very difficult to create a black list of a million spam blogs (growing steeply) or to certify ten million blogs.

I am constantly thinking and thinking. For now, I am working on an algorithm that’ll predict whether a blog is spam or not. (It wont be the perfect solution, but it should work to an extend)

Regards,
Kailash Nadh

By: Pascal

Pascal — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:12:08 +0000

@John on counting incoming links:
Every search engine and feed search engine will have or need to have its own way to rank “trust”, “authority”, “relevance” or whatever you’ll call it.
They will not reveal how it works of course: competitive advantage etc…

As you indicated yourself, the number of incoming links is probably not a good indication on itself. An algorithm to build in index of “trusted” sources by following links all starting from a number of trustworthy, human-verified websites, was published a while ago: you can find a summary here:

Another path is the one followed by Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ (building further upon the idea of del.icio.us and other social bookmark services): let your network of friends filter your search results, in a bit the same way as online social networks filter out interesting new contacts:
http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2005/06/28/yahoo_social_search_act_ii.php

By: John Cass

John Cass — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:08:53 +0000

I entirely agree with your statement “the ability to effectively filter out spam being a major competitive advantage.” One of the reasons I suggested giving people to sort posts by the number of links to a site was because I thought that would push the legit content to the top. Though one of my blogging/SEO colleagues tells me many of the spammers have a number of links anyway. Whether that’s because they set up multiple blogs or because people are linking to their typically ripped content we did not research.

Any other ideas on how the feed search engines can sort their content?

By: Backbone Blogging Survey

Backbone Blogging Survey — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:35:25 +0000

Will Technorati.com Remove the Spammers?

In my work helping several clients on blog relations strategies for Backbone Media I’ve been using Technorati.com more often than ever before in the last few months. For eight months I was Director of Marketing for 48hourprint.com where I was…

By: Online Idea Buzz

Online Idea Buzz — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 23:02:50 +0000

Kick spam — use Technorati

Hunting spamblogs suggests: … and tag the spamblogs that slipped through the net. If you get annoyed by a Spamblog showing up in your Technorati Watchlist (or Google Alert, or any other search feed), report it, tag it: “spamblog”

By: Surf The Mind » If spam sites in your search results are getting you down…

Sun, 26 Jun 2005 16:55:27 +0000

[...] can also enter your own email address, if you wish, then click submit. In a similar vein, Pascal Vanhecke has a post suggesting methods of reporting spamblogs using social netwo [...]