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Splog or spam blogging is one of blogosphere’s not-so-funny sites. A splog links to your posts and may even up blog’s links. These are fake blogs that copy the first few sentences from blogs and post these in their site with some links going to where the posts were copied. Popular topics covered are about gambling, poker, home mortgage and even parenting.

Here is an example of splogging I got and which I have removed the link attached to the permalink (the permalink is linkless 😀 ) :

I Wear My Sunglasses At Night » Zenni Optical Glasses | iwearmysunglassesatnight.sunglassesbargain.com/2008/02/22/zenni-optical-glasses | IP: 69.41.230.6

[…] unknownnHBifocal lens, tinted sunglasses, sunsensor, progressive and single exteroception lense are offered. The Best Thing Found: Zenni Optical add sells internationally and candid to the customers the drug eyeglasses so the prices are not … […]

When clicked, the splog site was gone. Instead,  this was found:

The website you are trying to view has been suspended due to a breach of our Acceptable Use Policy.

Anyway, what can be seen when the link is clicked is my post.

Click these articles to read more about splogging:

 

The Guardian’s Cashing in on Fake Blogs

Wired’s Spam + Blogs = Trouble

Mark Cuban’s A Splog Here, A Splog There…

Maria Langer’s Google, Adsense and Splogging

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