Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Will Spam-Blogging Be The Death Of Blogging?
I just wrote a new article about some of the concerns I've had about blogging... or rather, about those who area busing this technology for short-term gains. Feel free to link to it and/or reprint it on your own website or newsletter as long as you keep the resource box intact.
Technorati reports that 30,000 - 40,000 new blogs are being created each day.
According to David Sifry, part of the growth of new blogs created each day is due to an increase in spam blogs.
What are spam blogs? They are fake blogs that are created by robots in order to foster link farms, attempted search engine optimization, or drive traffic through to advertising or affiliate sites.
They contain robot-generated posts made up of random words, with the title linking back to the blogger's own pages.
Many bloggers see them as a way of getting their pages indexed quickly by Google and other search engines.
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