Problogging: Money distorts content

Posted in Google, How to Blog, SEO, Spam by Elliott Back on October 10th, 2005.

I was somewhat saddened to come across the following lists of links on a personal blog site:

Splog or blog?

I’d hate to call them all splogs, but less than a dozen posts about Chinese poplet “Jolin Tsai” or a series of pictures of cute Japanese girls do not a blog make. The copy for the “Sexy Girls Pics” blog reads like an SEO joke:

This sexy girl is Sayaka Isoyama, she look very young and sexy. She’s so hot wearing blue color bikini and she is our pick as sexiest jap girl of the week. If you want to see more of this sexy girls pics, stay tuned.

Let’s see. If I were stemming, I’d have the work “sexy” used four times here. Plus four more times in the title tag, once in the blog name, six times in the tagline, four times in the footer text, and countless times in other meta html. That’s a whole lot of sexy for not a whole lot of content. And personally, I think Google can only take a certain amount of sexiness:

Sexy and Google

Too much, and your rankings will fall right off.

But, that’s not the real question here. I really just want to ask, “Why does money change things?” Why can’t bloggers blog about things with passion, instead of throwing up trash to make money? Why can’t we build a system that rewards great content and ingenuity, not random crap?

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Espen 3 years ago 1 point
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remember the early start of email? remember a couple a years back and blocked inboxes? SPAM -the word in fact changed meaning. the beautiful start is natural since the blogosphere is built by enthusiast with something on their mind they want to share. later comes the SPAM phase which will last till we are able to make efficient filters (and sentence to jail (or fill in the appropriate place way down under) the men behind it) like we have done for emails. efficient use of pings and trackbacks may assure this happens faster?

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Wahyu Wijanarko 3 years ago 1 point
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Hehe, I dun know much more about SPAM etc, coz i'm since long-long time already annoyed by SPAM. I dun care about SPAM, then i decided to think that SPAM is art itself that make our IT world different. In other hand, I really hate SPAM.

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Jim 3 years ago 1 point
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> If I were stemming, I'd have the work "sexy" used four times here.

The best bit? You've managed to include "sexy" in this article over half a dozen times yourself :)

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mr.eims 3 years ago 1 point
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i get your point..

hehe..

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Britton Burton 2 years ago 1 point
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I hate pop up's and spam and all that propraganda shit as well. Dosen't seem like theres a lot anyone can do about it themselves though. Just ignoring it dosen't work anymore, because it has infested the internet like some type of sick disease.
The Spywear and Ad based probing software seems to have taken the Spam Industry to another level of sneakyness. With software that tracks you, and can be quite irritating, when it goes as far a changing the time of day on your computer. Well thats just more than I want or need from my internet connection. It's slow enough as it is, and I don't need some redundent programming wreaking havok on my Ram and tacking extra work on my aging processor

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