Google's Blogspot is 3/4 Spam

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Google's Blogspot is 3/4 Spam

by Grant Robertson Mar 22nd 2007

From the we-could-have-told-you-that department. An article released Monday by PC World says as many as 3 out of 4 Blogspot blogs are actually Splogs -- a slang term for Spam blogs which exist only to swindle click-through ad dollars.

According to the PC World story, "Three out of every four unique Blogspot.com URLs that appeared in the top 50 results for commercial queries were spam"

Some days you have to ask yourself, why does Google continue to let these situations run wild? It's so circular; Splogs wind up clogging search results, which cause advertisers -- even those using Google's own Adsense -- to spend money on clicks they could have earned themselves, if only they didn't have to compete for search rankings with all the splogs. Oh, wait.. I think we just found the reason.

Tags: adsense, click fraud, ClickFraud, google, google adwords, GoogleAdwords, spam, spam blogs, SpamBlogs, splog, splogs

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Justin Mazzi said 10:52PM on 3-22-2007

Well, if you check the compare boxes for yahoo, veizon, sp500 and nasdaq, you will see that are right in line with most companies that are doing well.

Brian M said 8:11AM on 3-23-2007

Google makes money on the clicks on the search, google also makes money on the clicks to ads in blogspot, blogspots jam up other seach engines, google makes more money, Lots of the splog sites are actually registered by google, google makes more money, and everyone things MSFT is evil.....

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