Spam Blogs / Splogs

SPAM BLOGS / SPLOGS

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Spam blogs came into existence in the late 2003 and beginning of 2004. It was a strategy picked by aggressive Search Engine marketers to promote their sites or client sites. Lots of blogs were registered in sites like blogspot.com, blogdrive.com, blog-city.com, livejournal.com and some junk contents was posted to increase the backlinks which would in turn help the ranking of a website. These spam blogs don't have any value to users, they are either to promote affiliate links, promote search marketer's client sites , for Adsense or for some other purpose that has no value to users. Contents on these blogs were meant to impress the search engines and not the users.

Some contents came from other popular blogs which were just copy paste or in other words stolen content, some contents come from blog scrapping (scrapping other blogs) and some came from some gibberish softwares.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog

Link farming is one common reason for Spam blogs. Excessive cross linking happens when many blogs are interconnected and they transfer PageRank themselves and later this PageRank is transferred to the spammers affiliate or MFA sites. There are lots of splog softwares out there that helps create Spam blogs.

Some spam blog softwares are:
• Voodoo Blogger
• blog and Ping Automator
• Fast Blogger generator
• Auto blog builder
• Blog auto machine
• RSS to blog
• Blog solution
• Blog link generator
• Power blog builder

This is just a small list of the 100s of blogs that exist out there.
We don't want to point to each and every spam blog generators. If you search Google you will find them.

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Details about spam blogs:

Most of the spam blogs use several existing default templates for their blog post and are hosted at various famous blogging sites.
Spam blogs are designed and coded with outbound link farm structures to boost the page rank of the other sites.There are also automated and semi automated news bites from different sources. These days spam blogs have a visible unrelated advertisement next to the content of the blog, giving Backlinks to the affiliated sites.

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Surveys

Around 2004, forums and blogs became very popular, and spammers applied the guestbook philosophy to these sites.
Although attempts have been made at making software to fight of the spammers, technology works both ways – they always seem to find a way around it.
(http://www.webspam.org/what-is-blog-or-comment-spam-and-how-can-i-fight-it/)