Attack of the Killer Splogs

Spam Blogs - Splogs

Imagine getting a list of spam blogs returned from an Internet search

Splogs are "Spam Blogs": blogs that only exist to promote other sites, primarily by getting the attention of search engines who in turn pay attention to the links in the splog. They promote other websites via the links within the splog, and are often full of nonsense with many search engine attracting "keywords." Very often they promote online pharmacies, gambling and porno sites. Splogs are a major problem on free blog hosts such as Google's blogspot.com, and they also "pollute" search engine results.

In a somewhat new twist, many splogs are reusing free articles for content, available from sites such as EzineArticles. Using real content makes it more difficult to tell spam blogs from other blogs for both humans and search engines. With splogs increasingly showing up in search engine results, this helps them create revenue by getting users to click on links to products for sale. Users rarely spend any time on splogs full of absolute gibberish and nonsense, but quite well may stay and read interesting articles and perhaps click on a link or two.

Very recently there has been an enormous "attack" of splogs. Google has removed well over 10,000 recently created splogs from their blogspot.com service recently, and they haven't remotely gotten them all. Someone, perhaps many people, have created some kind of program or script that can autocreate splogs, and they are attacking!

In an amusing, at least to me, twist, splogs have started including my content! Here is an example.

Notice the entire lack of new content on this site, the somewhat random autogenerated title, and the nonsensical links. At least they gave me a link back to my site, as required by the EzineArticles terms of service!