How Google is Fighting Spam Blogs

The temptation to make a lot of money without working has caused some unscrupulous people to create automatically created blogs to which they put adsense ads to make money. There are many programs on the market promising anyone who needs it to publish automatically and make cash online. But the practice is criminal as it distorts the natural working of the web which is real individual posting useful information for the benefit of other people.

No problem. The major search engines have detected the practice and have vowed to combat it, beginning with the giant google.

This is how Google sees spam blogs and how it intends to fight them.

"As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their -irrelevant,

-repetitive, or -nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.

Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one,they can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that you are looking for. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people's writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated software is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other legitimate users

How Google is Fighting Spam

* Automated spam classifying algorithms keep spam blogs out of NextBlog and out of "Recently Published" list on the dashboard.

* The same classifiers are used to require an extra word verification field on the posting form for potential spam blogs.

* The Flag as Objectionable button in the Navbar lets you notify Blogger of problem blogs that you find."