Most of you would agree with me that more than half of BlogSpot accounts you see nowadays are splogs (spam blogs). In fact, I believe that Google AdSense is the major driving force behind enterprising people creating almost every imaginable BlogSpot account for a telenovela, cancer, mortgage, personal loans, viagra and cialis blog. It’s free and it comes with AdSense — what more can you ask for?
Mikey posted a rather funny satire on How Adsense pollutes the blogosphere..
Google has responded to this by adding the “Flag this blog” on the BlogSpot navbar but it has not or will never solve the spread of splogs. Once in a while i do my share of flagging these splogs but they just keep on splogging by jumping from one Blogspot account to another.
So, what’s the solution for this?
SandBox it for at least 3 months. Disable automatic AdSense impressions for newer blogs. Google has been doing it (sandboxing) on link farm sites and all, why not on its own Blogspot accounts?
As a blogger, are you reporting splogs (on Blogspot) you frequently find while surfing? Are you reporting abusive Adsense publishers for violating the TOS/AUP?
I`m continually detailing “Made for adsense Sites”, you know, the one that resembles a web catalog yet really the substance are made through robotized question, has a spammy URL, and a major adsense standard in the center.
More often than not I`m perusing articles and discussions and never had experience such sort of blog sprog yet. Incidentally, Abe, what makes these websites spammy?