Blogs as Tools of Spam

Posted in Blogging by Elliott Back on December 7th, 2004.

I was cruising on Blogger the other day, going from site to site, and I found some “interesting” stuff. Within 5 minutes of random surfing, I countered 11 blogs whose sole purpose was to link to spammy websites. They had no content, no blogrolls, and none of the signs of a healthy blog. Just links to sites like this, this, and this.

Here’s a list of the offending Blogger sites:

http://mesocan.blogspot.com/
http://ivanadam2594.blogspot.com/
http://ivyrobinson6106.blogspot.com/
http://free-satellite-tv-dish.blogspot.com/
http://natbanking.blogspot.com/
http://ivanbrook5392.blogspot.com/
http://gourmet-coffee.blogspot.com/
http://sunbowlquest.blogspot.com/
http://golfers-friend.blogspot.com/
http://touristinfohub.blogspot.com/

Most of them are links farms–with the exception of the last, which has a nice layout, some cute Google adsense ads, and a little bit of content and copyright. In fact, it almost looks professional!

The only thing I don’t get. Why don’t these blog spammers create normal, real blogs with real content, get some readership, and just plug their for-profit sites every now and then, on the low and low? Deception is better than idiocy.

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Rick Butts 4 years ago 1 point
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Thank you for asking such a good question!

I suppose you want an answer to this fine question and there is a very good one that is steeped in cleverness, business sense, and functionality.

http://www.blogandping.com

The answer is that this is part of a technique to get sites spidered and therefore indexed rapidly.

It's not really for humans to read. In light of some of the absolutely useless, trivial, mundane and outright lies in the blogs of cyberspace, this is just part of the landscape, let's call it - Public Access Television?

You can learn about the whole thing - and no longer stumble around in the darkness - at http://www.blogandping.com

Sincerely,
Rick Butts

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http://www.blogandping.com

fghfgf 4 years ago 1 point
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The question you should be asking is"Who am I to tell anyone what they do with their blogs or their websites?"

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