spa(s)m

from infoniac.com

...] WebmasterWorld states that 75% of all blogs on Google's blogspot are spam.

...The researchers scanned 1000 most searched queries: 'phentermine' on blogspot.com and the query 'ringtone' on hometown.aol.com. The WebmasterWorld experts easily identified more than a half of the search results as spam.

The following list shows the spam percentage on 'top doorway domains':
- blogspot.com 77%
- netscape.com 74%
- hometown.aol.com 84%
- hometown.aol.de 91%
- oas.org 78%
- xoomer.alice.it 77%
- home.aol.com 95%
- freewebs.com 52%
- blogstudio.com 99%
- maxpages.com 81%
- usaid.gov 85%
- blogsharing.com 93%
- sitegr.com 100%
- torospace.com 95%
- blog.hix.com 100%

The list shows that some of these blogs are used exclusively, or almost exclusively, for spam. The main reason for such a torrent of splogs is the fact that these sites provide blog space for free, just to attract more traffic.

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from RSS-SPIDER

...Anyhow… it got me to thinking… we’ve put a few things in to block spammers on this site, however, since we’re pulling in RSS feeds from all around the web, how many splogs have we indexed? Ugh… what a mess. Searching for “debt reduction” came back with 1000+ results instantly and most of them were within 3 days old. 1000 by the way is the ceiling of results that Sphinx is setup to return. Searching for “credit-card-debt” came up with the same results. So I’ve decided that Blogspot and all the other domains listed in the article above are going to be put on the “no spider” list & ban list effective Monday 4/9....

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from me : darn, no free backlink for me there,
but thanks for the input or should I thank webmasterworld for doing all the work there ?

The advantage of a "Free" blog like this : I dont have to think about NOFOLLOW and pagerank, I just run a 700 keyword list linking my link directory category pages to a few 'fresh' blog posts on google blogsearch through this blog, and all the links are 'follow'.

The links wont ever give you any pagerank but if they are indexed they do count as backlink and in technorati you might get an Authority-point. For starting bloggers, that puts your ass on the Technorati search pages, so maybe I made one blogger happy somewhere along the line.

I am just a very giving-caring-and-sharing dude, free backlinks for all my fellow bloggers.