Hidden Splog Dangers
There is an alarming rise in the incidence of splogs becoming a way of spreading malware in the form of phishing or other identity theft scams and people are taking notice. Spam blogs as we know are blogs that are created solely to steer ranking bots to their sites without giving second thought about the many sources they plague. There are also link-farms that do more than just steal content, they automatically fill in links to boost their own sites gaining more attention from indexing bots. Being bots themselves, these nasties prey upon unsuspecting blogs, stealing their content not giving a damn about the hard work that went into making the said posts. Comment and track-back scams are also on the rise which send multiple comments promoting certain products such as drugs and other obviously fake products. They can be used for DoS attacks, flooding hosting servers with comments that if left unattended can swell into the thousands.
Having a blog and getting hundreds of comments is a sure sign you may be falling victim to such activities, spam comments can easily be screened with captcha plugins that seems to be one of the simplest ways of getting rid of spam comments. As with splogs, the link-back technique is still the most effective way to kick them out and one can take action with Google’s AdSense by reporting the said sites and kicking them out of business. There may be no immediate action taken but with our combined effort, we can surely find a way to kick them out and to get our content to our readers who deserve nothing but the best. Bloggers of the world should unite and get these blogs out so we can blog in peace for whatever reason we may see fit.
