splog's hype useless?
I manage a small blog hosting website, and I must say the obvious; that
this problem exists since a long time and little has been acted upon. A
clear strategy has to emerge; containing anti-spam blog filtering (like
e-mail spam filtering) maybe integrated into news readers. One can
think of a browser extension too, that reports spam blogs to a
centralised place, or even tries to "rate" or "signal" spam content in
the current visited webpage. A simple solution like CAPTCHAs helps but is far from solving the problem. So long splogs get money for what they do, they will keep pushing.
Blog spamming is anything but new. Since years, blogs have been used as promotion weapons for unscrupulous advertisers. It's only these days though, that spammers coordinated in a massive attack on google's blog playground, blogspot. There's a huge movement in the blogosphere about this topic, and many a-party bloggers followed the trend:
Ethical wise,
it's very hard to draw the line between regular bloggers that advertise
their small home business and real spammers, with budget and evil
weapons. Especially that these days creating your blog becomes easier
and easier: Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummie.
Of course if a simple solution did exist to clean up the blogosphere, google would have tried it, in order to avoid the bad publicity it gets these days. In conclusion, sadly, one blogosphere hype can't solve anything. I hope I'm wrong though.
Blog spamming is anything but new. Since years, blogs have been used as promotion weapons for unscrupulous advertisers. It's only these days though, that spammers coordinated in a massive attack on google's blog playground, blogspot. There's a huge movement in the blogosphere about this topic, and many a-party bloggers followed the trend:
Ethical wise,
it's very hard to draw the line between regular bloggers that advertise
their small home business and real spammers, with budget and evil
weapons. Especially that these days creating your blog becomes easier
and easier: Buzz Marketing with Blogs For Dummie.Of course if a simple solution did exist to clean up the blogosphere, google would have tried it, in order to avoid the bad publicity it gets these days. In conclusion, sadly, one blogosphere hype can't solve anything. I hope I'm wrong though.
