Sunday, April 24, 2005
Spam-Blogging Can Hurt Searchers and SEOs
Thomas Pierce posts about one of my concerns about blogging – the creation of spam-blogs designed to get sites indexed quickly into search engines.
I wrote an article about it here but never saw it from the point of view of how it might affect searches, till now.
Thomas’s rant says:
Apparently I hit the search results shortly after someone blogged and pinged their pages into the blogosphere. The top results of my searches were dominated by pages that were completely useless to me.
This person took a page generator and set up about 80 blogspot.com blogs and cranked out useless pages all pointing to various domains duplicated across all of the domains (link farm) …and pinged the pages in.
Thomas also cautions SEOs against using this method to get indexed quickly.
I do counsel my clients and anyone else that asks me about this practice to stay away from this IF you are serious about blogging and building brand reputation.
I usually end my short reply to inquiries about blog and ping with "Do you see any successful bloggers using this strategy for their success? No, you don't".Blogs and Pings are a wonderful thing. It's definitely goodness all around for everyone but when it's used to create blog spammed link farms and useless pages in search results, those practicing this are negatively impacting others.
