Comments on: Google: Kill Blogspot Already!!! http://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/ News and Reviews! Geek, Internet Entrepreneur, Hardware Addict, Software Junkie, Book Author, Once TV Show Host, Technology Enthusiast, Shameless Self-Promoter, Tech Conference Coordinator, Early Adopter, Idea Evangelist, Tech Support Blogger, Bootstrapper, Media Personality, Technology Consultant, Thicker Quicker Picker Upper. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:33:24 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: shmula » when bad things happen to good blogs : Business, Technology, and Stuff in Betweenhttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-275765 shmula » when bad things happen to good blogs : Business, Technology, and Stuff in Between Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:49:25 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-275765 [...] a corollary to splogs are spings, which are ping spam or spam sent from spam blogs or splogs. it’s important to emphasize the reasons or motivations behind splogs: The purpose is to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed. many people have chimed in on splogs including pirillo and mark cuban. others seem to think that splogs linking to them is a sign of growth. how are splogs created anyway? there is software that can automate blogs, pings, and the like. the software releases a bot that crawls the blogosphere and post-jacks content, copies it, and creates a splog of its own. interestingly, the post title is always used in the splog. this is important to remember when i discuss splog baits. the folks at ebiquity have done amazing research into the splogosphere. they have studied weblogs data and innovatively created a splog bait. this bait was picked-up by many splogs shortly after the post was published. this splog bait contains jibberish — garbage — but the text has key words that rank highly on the adwords bid tool, which can be found here and the postitle in the splog is the exact same is it is in the authentic post title. this is one way to find out who has splogged you. here’s the conclusion from the ebiquity study: [...] [...] a corollary to splogs are spings, which are ping spam or spam sent from spam blogs or splogs. it’s important to emphasize the reasons or motivations behind splogs: The purpose is to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed. many people have chimed in on splogs including pirillo and mark cuban. others seem to think that splogs linking to them is a sign of growth. how are splogs created anyway? there is software that can automate blogs, pings, and the like. the software releases a bot that crawls the blogosphere and post-jacks content, copies it, and creates a splog of its own. interestingly, the post title is always used in the splog. this is important to remember when i discuss splog baits. the folks at ebiquity have done amazing research into the splogosphere. they have studied weblogs data and innovatively created a splog bait. this bait was picked-up by many splogs shortly after the post was published. this splog bait contains jibberish — garbage — but the text has key words that rank highly on the adwords bid tool, which can be found here and the postitle in the splog is the exact same is it is in the authentic post title. this is one way to find out who has splogged you. here’s the conclusion from the ebiquity study: [...]

]]> By: Ghostyhttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-22795 Ghosty Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:25:31 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-22795 Thanks to comment captcha, not one of my blogs has experienced comment spam - and I have several legitimate blogs on that service.http://addh.blogspot.com/ http://britannia.blogspot.com/ http://uoweb.blogspot.com/ http://uoshots.blogspot.com/If Blogger were to initiate captcha for posting, that might help some in eliminating sblogs. Don't hate BlogSpot, Chris, hate the spammers. I agree, though, Google needs to get on the stick and clean house with regard to these guys. Thanks to comment captcha, not one of my blogs has experienced comment spam – and I have several legitimate blogs on that service.

http://addh.blogspot.com/
http://britannia.blogspot.com/
http://uoweb.blogspot.com/
http://uoshots.blogspot.com/

If Blogger were to initiate captcha for posting, that might help some in eliminating sblogs. Don’t hate BlogSpot, Chris, hate the spammers. I agree, though, Google needs to get on the stick and clean house with regard to these guys.

]]> By: shmula » when bad things happen to good blogshttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-19927 shmula » when bad things happen to good blogs Tue, 30 May 2006 05:19:46 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-19927 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] a corollary to splogs are spings, which are ping spam or spam sent from spam blogs or splogs.  it’s important to emphasize the reasons or motivations behind splogs: The purpose is to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed.  many people have chimed in on splogs including pirillo and mark cuban.  others seem to think that splogs linking to them is a sign of growth. [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] a corollary to splogs are spings, which are ping spam or spam sent from spam blogs or splogs.  it’s important to emphasize the reasons or motivations behind splogs: The purpose is to increase the PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites indexed.  many people have chimed in on splogs including pirillo and mark cuban.  others seem to think that splogs linking to them is a sign of growth. [...]

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18215 Anonymous Tue, 18 Apr 2006 09:49:45 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18215 Suggestion, Google? As bold as this might sound, 触摸å±Â?you should institute an authentication system – a captcha of sorts – for every single post that gets sent through your Blogger service. This means that there's no more easy rides for the idiots out there who are killing your baby and the blogosphere. The user logs in, enters their post, then has to jump through a captcha hoop – much like commenters have to do on Blogger.com these days. It's a simple suggestion, and

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]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18213 Anonymous Tue, 14 Mar 2006 15:18:55 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18213 I agree with you the way you view the issue. I remember Jack London once said everything positive has a negative side; everything negative has positive side. It is also interesting to see different viewpoints & learn useful things in the discussion. I agree with you the way you view the issue. I remember Jack London once said everything positive has a negative side; everything negative has positive side. It is also interesting to see different viewpoints & learn useful things in the discussion.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18212 Anonymous Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:13:03 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18212 Personally, I think everyone who whines about "Splogs" needs to wake up and get a life. I am sick and tired of busting my ass, trying to play "Google Games" only to see my hard work and dedication get me nowhere. I've jumped through the hoops. Writing articles, getting reciprocal links, having high quality content, yadda, yadda, yadda. For what? To not even grace Google's search results. To have a whopping $7 in my adsense account. For all of those out there who think everyone who has top spots is "playing fair, playing by the rules." you really need a cold shower and some coffee. So, as the cliche goes, can't beat'em, join'em. You can bitch about Splogs all you want. For me, I'll take advantage of them while I can, and earn a few thousand while I'm at it. There is no such thing as a level playing field online anymore. The big boys have monopolized everything. If I have to cheat to cheat the cheaters than so be it. Long live Gen-X and our neverending pessimism. Fact is everyone bitches about tele-marketers, guess what, they wouldn't keep making those calls if it wasn't profitable. Everyone complains about SPAM, but let's face it, how much stuff did you buy from SPAM. If it wasn't profitable it wouldn't have been done. Now, there are SPLOGS. I say don't fight it man. Join it. Personally, I think everyone who whines about “Splogs” needs to wake up and get a life. I am sick and tired of busting my ass, trying to play “Google Games” only to see my hard work and dedication get me nowhere. I've jumped through the hoops. Writing articles, getting reciprocal links, having high quality content, yadda, yadda, yadda. For what? To not even grace Google's search results. To have a whopping $7 in my adsense account. For all of those out there who think everyone who has top spots is “playing fair, playing by the rules.” you really need a cold shower and some coffee. So, as the cliche goes, can't beat'em, join'em. You can bitch about Splogs all you want. For me, I'll take advantage of them while I can, and earn a few thousand while I'm at it. There is no such thing as a level playing field online anymore. The big boys have monopolized everything. If I have to cheat to cheat the cheaters than so be it. Long live Gen-X and our neverending pessimism. Fact is everyone bitches about tele-marketers, guess what, they wouldn't keep making those calls if it wasn't profitable. Everyone complains about SPAM, but let's face it, how much stuff did you buy from SPAM. If it wasn't profitable it wouldn't have been done. Now, there are SPLOGS. I say don't fight it man. Join it.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18211 Anonymous Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:10:52 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18211 Personally, I think everyone who whines about "Splogs" needs to wake up and get a life. I am sick and tired of busting my ass, trying to play "Google Games" only to see my hard work and dedication get me nowhere. I've jumped through the hoops. Writing articles, getting reciprocal links, having high quality content, yadda, yadda, yadda. For what? To not even grace Google's search results. To have a whopping $7 in my adsense account. For all of those out there who think everyone who has top spots is "playing fair, playing by the rules." you really need a cold shower and some coffee. So, as the cliche goes, can't beat'em, join'em. You can bitch about Splogs all you want. For me, I'll take advantage of them while I can, and earn a few thousand while I'm at it. There is no such thing as a level playing field online anymore. The big boys have monopolized everything. If I have to cheat to cheat the cheaters than so be it. Long live Gen-X and our neverending pessimism. Fact is everyone bitches about tele-marketers, guess what, they wouldn't keep making those calls if it wasn't profitable. Everyone complains about SPAM, but let's face it, how much stuff did you buy from SPAM. If it wasn't profitable it wouldn't have been done. Now, there are SPLOGS. I say don't fight it man. Join it. Personally, I think everyone who whines about “Splogs” needs to wake up and get a life. I am sick and tired of busting my ass, trying to play “Google Games” only to see my hard work and dedication get me nowhere. I've jumped through the hoops. Writing articles, getting reciprocal links, having high quality content, yadda, yadda, yadda. For what? To not even grace Google's search results. To have a whopping $7 in my adsense account. For all of those out there who think everyone who has top spots is “playing fair, playing by the rules.” you really need a cold shower and some coffee. So, as the cliche goes, can't beat'em, join'em. You can bitch about Splogs all you want. For me, I'll take advantage of them while I can, and earn a few thousand while I'm at it. There is no such thing as a level playing field online anymore. The big boys have monopolized everything. If I have to cheat to cheat the cheaters than so be it. Long live Gen-X and our neverending pessimism. Fact is everyone bitches about tele-marketers, guess what, they wouldn't keep making those calls if it wasn't profitable. Everyone complains about SPAM, but let's face it, how much stuff did you buy from SPAM. If it wasn't profitable it wouldn't have been done. Now, there are SPLOGS. I say don't fight it man. Join it.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18210 Anonymous Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:43:54 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18210 Yeah lets blame it on the inocent users! That would be the day! What a fantastic idea man! I really hate updating my blog now! Thanks a buch! I use to post 200 photos per day. Now I have to type 200 titles AND 200 crapcha!!! Thank you so much! Thats about 20 flapcha per visitor for me. English isn't my native language so the sdaf2342w434w give me a headace. I've stared a new "1 post per day maximum" blog with text only to get the same treatment after 3 months. I keep a blog about blogger scripts, it's content is much better as your spam log. All you do is complain about your lack of succes. What a lie. Shame on you! My blog is much more related to the blogspot topic as yours but some how this page has 10 times more comments as my blogspot has unique visitors. So you are doing far more <b>SEO spamming</b> as the rest of us put together. Or are you going to pretend this rant is quality content? You probably live in the US and think the rest of the world is 3 people who are both inferior to you ubermensh. <i>-<a href="http://categories.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Categories for blogger!</a></i> Yeah lets blame it on the inocent users! That would be the day! What a fantastic idea man! I really hate updating my blog now! Thanks a buch!
I use to post 200 photos per day. Now I have to type 200 titles AND 200 crapcha!!! Thank you so much! Thats about 20 flapcha per visitor for me.
English isn't my native language so the sdaf2342w434w give me a headace.
I've stared a new “1 post per day maximum” blog with text only to get the same treatment after 3 months.
I keep a blog about blogger scripts, it's content is much better as your spam log. All you do is complain about your lack of succes. What a lie. Shame on you!
My blog is much more related to the blogspot topic as yours but some how this page has 10 times more comments as my blogspot has unique visitors.
So you are doing far more SEO spamming as the rest of us put together.
Or are you going to pretend this rant is quality content? You probably live in the US and think the rest of the world is 3 people who are both inferior to you ubermensh.
-Categories for blogger!

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18209 Anonymous Sun, 29 Jan 2006 07:46:34 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18209 ><a href="http://www.theiceharvest.com/" rel="nofollow">Ice Harvest the Movie DVD</a> A dim-bulb lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash. Get your <a href="http://www.theiceharvest.com/" rel="nofollow">Ice Harvest the Movie DVD</a> at http://www.theiceharvest.com/ >Ice Harvest the Movie DVD A dim-bulb lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash. Get your Ice Harvest the Movie DVD at http://www.theiceharvest.com/

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18208 Anonymous Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:33:05 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18208 I think when you put down blogspot you get alot of spam from it. Some people need the publicity, do you? How would you like to have captcha verification for every post you made. It really makes the honest blogger's life hard. I am no newbie I've been on blogger since the beginning. When I hear alot of you guys who came after ranting about blogger, I have to ask, what's in it for you? Everyone is suffering from spam, its all over the internet. Funny I don't get any spam at my blog? Wonder why that is? I think when you put down blogspot you get alot of spam from it. Some people need the publicity, do you? How would you like to have captcha verification for every post you made. It really makes the honest blogger's life hard. I am no newbie I've been on blogger since the beginning. When I hear alot of you guys who came after ranting about blogger, I have to ask, what's in it for you? Everyone is suffering from spam, its all over the internet. Funny I don't get any spam at my blog? Wonder why that is?

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18207 Anonymous Tue, 06 Dec 2005 03:24:56 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18207 If this is a petition, consider it signed by me! You are sooooo on target. If this is a petition, consider it signed by me! You are sooooo on target.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18206 Anonymous Thu, 03 Nov 2005 16:40:37 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18206 Meh. There <i>is</i> a whole lot crap coming offa Blogspot, and Google definitley needs to step it up. But theres definitley actual people out there... and free hosting w/o ads of anykind, blog or not, is freaking hard to come across. Some people can afford the time and money to host from home, or to hire one of the coroporate services for their blog... but not everyone can! I say google wipes out blogger, and starts a system where you hafta use a cell phone to get an account. It works for GMail, there really isnt spam coming out of it. But yeh, the blogger splog problem is getting beyond ridiculous. Meh. There is a whole lot crap coming offa Blogspot, and Google definitley needs to step it up.
But theres definitley actual people out there… and free hosting w/o ads of anykind, blog or not, is freaking hard to come across. Some people can afford the time and money to host from home, or to hire one of the coroporate services for their blog… but not everyone can!
I say google wipes out blogger, and starts a system where you hafta use a cell phone to get an account. It works for GMail, there really isnt spam coming out of it.
But yeh, the blogger splog problem is getting beyond ridiculous.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18205 Anonymous Mon, 24 Oct 2005 19:23:19 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18205 The posts haven't bother me yet. I filter out my results. Also - why are people calling this "spam". Spam implies an invasion of space. This is not "spam" (albeit crap) because it doesn't come to you - you have to go to it, or have an aggregator that let's it in. I don't have either. The posts haven't bother me yet. I filter out my results. Also – why are people calling this “spam”. Spam implies an invasion of space. This is not “spam” (albeit crap) because it doesn't come to you – you have to go to it, or have an aggregator that let's it in. I don't have either.

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://chris.pirillo.com/google-kill-blogspot-already/comment-page-1/#comment-18204 Anonymous Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:31:57 +0000 http://chris.pirillo.com/2005/10/16/google-kill-blogspot-already/#comment-18204 No, my friend, while Google may share much of the responsibility for the splogging problem by being late to the party with captchas and other deterrents, the root of the problem is the spammers themselves. No, my friend, while Google may share much of the responsibility for the splogging problem by being late to the party with captchas and other deterrents, the root of the problem is the spammers themselves.

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