Beware of the Splogs!!!

According to this article a growing problem in the blogging community is "splogs" or "spam blogs." Essentially, these are blogs dedicated to distorting the results of search engines by putting out a million entries pointing to a certain website or family of websites. Thus, when someone types in an honest search for "health food" they are more likely to be pointed to any one of a million spam blogposts for someone's snake oil then to a reputable health food store or news site. It is always about separating the wheat from the chaff, right?

Blogger is by far the worst offender. Google seems to be working hard to adjust their relevancy indexes to exclude splog from having influence on search rankings, but they dont seem to be doing anything more than removing reported splogs. Kind of like going after the zombies one at a time with a shovel. Can we get some help on this Google ? (you can check out weblogs.com to get a feel for just how much splog we are talking about )
Googles problem with splog isnt just a blog search engine issue. Its an end user issue as well. No splog detection algorithms are going to be perfect. Not only do we miss splog, but we take out innocent victims along the way as well.
If you are an individual blogger whose blog is hosted on blogspot.com, every day the chances of you being excluded from icerocket.com’s, and other search engines’ indexes increases. Its not just blogspot.com, pretty much 90plus percent of blogs hosted on .info sites are splogs as well.

Now you know why Mod-Blog does not appear as prominently as you might expect, considering our eminent authors.