Originally published April 5 2005
Spam blogging may undermine blog world
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Between 30,000 and 40,000 new blogs are created every day according to Technorati, and a large part of that growth is due to the creation of "spam blogs" -- blogs which have no legitimate content, but instead are simply random text that contain links to a real blog or page in an attempt to drive up the search ranking of the linked site. Blog services are working to combat such spam blogs.
Will Spam-Blogging Be The Death Of Blogs?
Technorati reports that 30,000 - 40,000 new blogs are being created each day.
According to David Sifry, part of the growth of new blogs created each day is due to an increase in spam blogs.
They are fake blogs that are created by robots in order to foster link farms, attempted search engine optimization, or drive traffic through to advertising or affiliate sites.
They contain robot-generated posts made up of random words, with the title linking back to the blogger's own pages.
Many bloggers see them as a way of getting their pages indexed quickly by Google and other search engines.
Sifry estimates that about 20% of the aggregate pings Technorati receives are from spam blogs.
Most of this fake blog spam comes from hosted services or from specific IP addresses.
There are even services like Blogburner that encourage creation of spammy blogs and spam-pinging to get your sites indexed quickly.
As a blogging evangelist, I wholeheartedly recommend blogging as an SEO tactic.
Technorati currently claims to catch about 90% of spam and remove it from the index.
Spam blogging will force search engines like Google to change their ranking algorithms and eventually assign less value to links from blogs.
Unless they put in safeguards to prevent robots from taking over, its safe to assume that blogging will become less effective as an SEO tactic over time.
Appreciate the value that blogs can add to your marketing and public relations strategy and use them the way they were meant to be used.
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