AdSense on BlogSpot drives Splogs

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?

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

6 Comments

alfie says:

19 years ago

I`m constantly reporting “Made for adsense Websites”, you know, the one that looks like a web directory but actually the content are created through automated query, has an spammy URL, and a big adsense banner in the middle.

Most of the time I`m reading articles and forums and never had encounter such kind of blog (splog) yet.

By the way, abe, what makes these blogs spammy?
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Mikey says:

19 years ago

Neologisms galore! So that’s what they’re called; SPLOGs. Nifty.

Anyways, despite everything I have written, I am rather inspired by your success and was actually planning to contact you for advice; I’m starting a collaborative blog with a few friends and wanted to get your opinion on how to effectively place google ads.

Yeah yeah, I’m a hypocrite.
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Abe Olandres says:

19 years ago

@ alfie

Splogs? You can spot it right away. The more obvious ones are about cancer, mortgage, loans, credit cards and they have tons of content in a span of days/weeks.

@ Mikey

Email me anytime. :) Splogs galore!
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Aaron says:

17 years ago

Is my blog one of these span types? It’s on my battle with testicular cancer last summer(July 2006).
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Lkmrugeo says:

16 years ago

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Trep Helix says:

7 years ago

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?
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