Can Splogs Harm Our blogs?

Recently I noticed that splogs have really taken a twist in a big way. First I had a few of my articles that I submitted to ezine articles used as contents for numerous Blogspot blogs, which I suspect originated from the same person. All these blogs has very “pornish” titles that are purposely given to attract Search Traffic and I don’t think I need to mention that there will be loads of Ads accompanying the post. Just look at a few of the URLs created for their evil purpose.

http://ianvortb.blogspot.com/

http://emailqiiibpa.blogspot.com/2007/10/art-of-writing-good-review.html

http://amateur-cum-shotmrxoni.blogspot.com/2007/10/your-blog-contents-effects-readership.html

Some bloggers have stated that this practise will put us, the victims, into the bad books for content duplication. I really don’t know how far that goes, but for sure, it leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. Maybe a few complains to Blogger will have those blogs terminated or maybe a complain to Google will have their Adsense account terminated and all that they have earned forfeited.

Lately, sploggers turned a little shrewder. Instead of ripping your complete post, they linkback to your articles, giving the original blogger all the credit and topping it up with some apple polishing of their own, writing something like ,”I found this fantastic article while…” or something of that nature. Most of the time, these pingbacks escapes the Akismet net and ends up as trackbacks to that post. You can see a good example in my previous post. I left it there on purpose so all of you can see a perfect example of the stupidity of these bloggers. What he plans to achieve other than making a few Adsense dollars is beyond my comprehension.

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