Why They Can’t be Stopped
The scourge of the Splogs and their Splogging creators are truly nagging each and every blogger on the planet yet there is a specific fact that bloggers have pointed out, why there is not much in terms of tools or utilities/plugins that can stop these bots? That is a question we’d have to press and keeping silence is like telling these guys that they can get away with what they’re doing. Spamming plugins like Akismet abound yet there are not much available for controlling the stealing actions of these programs. We’d have to ask the many WordPress developers out in the wild of the internet that question or maybe they are already doing something about it and are about to do so in the near future. Most bloggers are forced to do the unthinkable, kill their blogs and start anew with the plugins they find that nips the bud before it opens.
But killing a blog isn’t always the best option for established blogs, random blogs and anything in between are being hit again and again. The action would also bolster the ego’s of these darned crooks and fighting back may be the best course of action. Reporting the sploggers to Google is one option with it’s adsense system that ranks blogs and content accordingly. That way, they can kill these bots, shutting them down permanently. The downside, is that like the rest of malware out in the wild, they seem to be adapting as fast as controls are put in place. A simple relocation or use of the millions of IP addresses tends to leave these plugins in the dust catching up when they smell the stink and so on and so forth. More on the scourge of blogs in the coming posts, blog safe and keep safe.
