The Assault on Blog Spam
If you've spent any time in the blogosphere, you've run across blog spam -- the millions of fake blogs (an example here) rich with links to other sites and created solely for one purpose: to get better search engine exposure. Their nickname: splogs. As Intelliseek's CMO Pete Blackshaw wrote this week for ClickZ, they're the blogging world's version of Spamalot. And bloggers are starting to speak up and demand action.
For the past two days, Chris Pirillo's Google-directed posted titled "Kill BlogSpot Already!!!!" has been one of the most-shared pieces of opinion and conversation among bloggers, and Google's one-day response is getting some traction as well. Tecnorati's Dave Sifry noted the spam problem in his equally popular State of the Blogosphere post this week, as did Robert Scoble and The Newest Industry. A BlogPulse trend graph shows awareness of the problem growing:
Perhaps it's only coincidence that today's No. 20 top news story is the FBI arrest of a Michigan man known as the king of spam.
Posted by Sue MacDonald at October 18, 2005 11:31 AM
