Comments on: Splogs http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/splogs_1.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:31:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: Concurring Opinions http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/splogs_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-62745 Concurring Opinions Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:53:39 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2005/10/splogs.html#comment-62745 <strong>Revenge of the Splog</strong> I previously blogged about splogs earlier this week. This recent Wall St. Journal article (one of the rare freebies on the WSJ website) has some more interesting information about splogs: Just this past weekend, Google's popular blog-creation tool, Blo... Revenge of the Splog

I previously blogged about splogs earlier this week. This recent Wall St. Journal article (one of the rare freebies on the WSJ website) has some more interesting information about splogs: Just this past weekend, Google’s popular blog-creation tool, Blo…

]]> By: Concurring Opinions http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/splogs_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-62744 Concurring Opinions Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:52:56 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2005/10/splogs.html#comment-62744 <strong>Revenge of the Splog</strong> I previously blogged about splogs earlier this week. This recent Wall St. Journal article (one of the rare freebies on the WSJ website) has some more interesting information about splogs: Just this past weekend, Google's popular blog-creation tool, Blo... Revenge of the Splog

I previously blogged about splogs earlier this week. This recent Wall St. Journal article (one of the rare freebies on the WSJ website) has some more interesting information about splogs: Just this past weekend, Google’s popular blog-creation tool, Blo…

]]> By: Mike http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/splogs_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-62743 Mike Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:52:42 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2005/10/splogs.html#comment-62743 The best way to fight spam blogs is to keep them from being returned as a search result in Google. Your blog, as all MT and Blogger blogs, has the "nofollow" operative that keeps blogs' page ranks from being increased by pinging and leaving comments with hotlinks. Still, spam is prevalent. (Don't they know about "nofollow," or do they hope that even if the PR doesn't improve, people will click?) Anyhow, to fight the good fight, report splogs to Google <a href="http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The best way to fight spam blogs is to keep them from being returned as a search result in Google. Your blog, as all MT and Blogger blogs, has the “nofollow” operative that keeps blogs’ page ranks from being increased by pinging and leaving comments with hotlinks. Still, spam is prevalent. (Don’t they know about “nofollow,” or do they hope that even if the PR doesn’t improve, people will click?) Anyhow, to fight the good fight, report splogs to Google here.

]]> By: Mike http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/10/splogs_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-62742 Mike Mon, 17 Oct 2005 23:49:29 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2005/10/splogs.html#comment-62742 Worst is when they grab <b>your</b> RSS feed and either reproduce your headlines, post excerpts, or full posts. At least a few places mirror some or all of my posts as "Google bait." It pisses me off, and Google might punish me. (Google punishes people with mirrored sites by lowering their page ranks.) I'm not sure how to fix the problem. I read a while ago that Google has hired (paid?) people who look at blogs and manually adjust PRs. Maybe that's what needs to be done, here, though I'm not sure whom I'd trust to adjust the page ranks of legal blogs. Lots of cronyism (and cliques) in the blogosphere. Worst is when they grab your RSS feed and either reproduce your headlines, post excerpts, or full posts. At least a few places mirror some or all of my posts as “Google bait.” It pisses me off, and Google might punish me. (Google punishes people with mirrored sites by lowering their page ranks.) I’m not sure how to fix the problem.

I read a while ago that Google has hired (paid?) people who look at blogs and manually adjust PRs. Maybe that’s what needs to be done, here, though I’m not sure whom I’d trust to adjust the page ranks of legal blogs. Lots of cronyism (and cliques) in the blogosphere.

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