Comments on: Splog tracking Adsense

by: kay

Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:12:36 +0000

hi guys!

We rarely put AdSense on our splogs to be honest… I got a warn message from adsense team after i’ve put adsense on hmm.. 4500th blog? something like this. They just turned off adsense on all those blogs on my account (however my friend could put his adsense there)

On splogs we put LINKS. However… Google banned 100 of my domains yesterday, after i’ve posted 600k backlinks on around 1500 spblogs (and pinged them of course)

by: Arve

Sat, 03 Dec 2005 22:25:57 +0000

Another blog service to be aware of, if you’re serious about battling spam is blogs.ie:

1. Users can sign up without any Turing test/Captcha mechanism
2. The blog is created instantly.

I am seeing tons, tons, and tons of refererspam attempts from them today, and to battle it, I’ve put the entire domain in my blacklist.

by: Plagiarism Today

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 03:22:56 +0000

Losing the War on Splogging?

According to Technorati, a full eight percent of all new blogs are spam, an estimated 5600 splogs a day. Google, whose Blogger service comprises over 80% of all splogs, has effectively stopped deleting splogs reported to them and the techniques splogg…

by: Joe

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 17:46:52 +0000

I wouldn’t be supprised if SplogFighter is doing something like that already.

by: Michael Pollitt

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:39:14 +0000

Perhaps somebody other than AdSense might like to work on a script to look for AdSense ads in lists of known or suspected splogs, identifying the AdSense publisher numbers. Rank the results by the number of splogs associated with each publisher. Then send the list to AdSense!

by: Angsuman Chakraborty

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 05:59:38 +0000

It could be few legitimate publishers too who use blogspot to host multiple blogs. However I think say anyone having more than 10 blogspot accounts could be at least humanly scanned for wrong-doing.

by: Joe

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:50:27 +0000

Not all spoggers use ads, but many are using AdSense on their splogs. Some of the smarter sploggers are using other ad programs that may be less receptive to complaints. Ad revenue certainly isn’t the main purpose of splogs, but it is supporting the spammers.

by: Jonathan

Sun, 27 Nov 2005 20:56:26 +0000

As nice as that idea is and much sense as it makes, it appears that splogging has evolved well past that. About a week after I made that post, I cornered a splogger online and had a lengthy conversation with him about how splogging works and why sploggers splog.

You can read that article here: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=121

I’m proud to say that the splogger in question has ceased all plagiarism and all spamming, but it does shine a scary light into the others. After all, the one in question was never a very prolific one, he was truthfully just getting a start in the field.

It’s still possible target adsense accounts, however, since almost no sploggers actually put adwords on their blogspot accounts, there’s not much good that can come of any kind detection method.

Still, it makes good sense in general. It is something that would be very easy to implement.