We’ve gotta fight against the SPAM blogs!

  18 Dec 2007 by TipsoSaurus

We all are fed up of SPAM blogs, the ones who just simply take excerpt from your blog posts and say that “we recently stumbled across a good post around blogosphere & there goes your post….” and link to your post and at the end make money doing nothing or rather ranking good in Google with the help of your hard work!

Keith thought of fighting against such blogs along with Ashish and me but unfortunately Keith’s tough schedule just didn’t help. Anyway, I think that as a full time blogger, I should pickup the task which was left in between.

I’ve been thinking about what exactly can be done about these blogs and after discussing it with Daniel, I’m still running short of ideas.

The only thought which gives me a little bit hope is that we can fight against these blogs with the help of old method of running some kind of petition and then approaching the companies (search engines, advertising networks) to ban them.

I’m not sure if that’ll work or not, but I’m sure if we can include some good list of bloggers then we’ll surely be able to fight back against these spam blogs. After all, there is no harm in trying.

However, before I’ll start with this project I would like to know about your thoughts on such a campaign or if you have some other idea in your mind to fight against these nasty blogs ?

11 Responses so far

  1. Mani Karthik December 18, 2007 4:48 pm

    Mayank, It’s a good idea. I can pledge my efforts to help fight it.

    Contacting the host might be a good idea if the “author” doesn’t reply.

    Let’s see what others have to say.

  2. Jake December 19, 2007 12:13 am

    GREAT IDEA,

    Using stumble upon i run across literally hundreds of such blogs. The most annoying ones are usually about how to make money blogging. They take a post from another how to make money blogging site, summerize it, then post their watered down version with a link.

    Its soooo annoying!

  3. TipsoSaurus December 19, 2007 2:53 am

    @ Jake : thanks for supporting & taking time to leave the comment :)

  4. TipsoSaurus December 19, 2007 2:55 am

    @ Mani : thanks for the comment and supporting the idea. I’ll work more on it and I’m sure we’ll be able to do something about these spam blogs.

  5. Madhur Kapoor December 19, 2007 6:40 am

    Nice initiative buddy. I am also fed up of these blogs and they are increasing day by day . I am with you on this thing.

  6. Keith Dsouza December 19, 2007 10:45 am

    Hey Buddy,

    I am with you too. Do let me know what has to be done. I will definitely help. I could not do much of it earlier as was busy as you said but will definitely put out some time for it now.

    You know where to get in touch with me.

  7. Haris December 19, 2007 12:02 pm

    Very nice… These spam blogs are very frustrating! Count me in buddy :)

  8. Shankar Ganesh December 22, 2007 12:41 am

    We together have faced problems with such splogs Mayank.

    I’ll be always there for help :)

  9. TipsoSaurus December 22, 2007 2:39 am

    @ Shankar : Indeed we have faced problem and we’ll fix this up.

    @ Haris : Thanks for the support

    @ Keith : I’ve already started working on it, lets see if this thing works out. I’m still thinking of a fool proof way of figthing these splogs. Only one thing has struck my mind till this time and that is creating a petition, but that is quite dicey..so can’t say if that will work

    @ Madhur : I know you are already there…even if you would have said..no.I would have dragged you in :D

  10. Brown Baron December 24, 2007 10:40 pm

    Sounds good to me. I’m in.

  11. Ashfame January 4, 2008 3:45 am

    Count me in too. I will help fighting those spam blogs.

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