Can anyone direct me to Google's guidelines on Blogg Spam? I am sure Google has devleoped these guidelines, but I am unable to find them. Thanks
What's blog spam? Is that like stuffing it with KWs and links? I'd like to know as well. I just got into blogging yesterday.
Just comply with general guidelines and you'll be fine. Can't see a reason why Blogs should have different guidelines. They're webpages too. Elee, there's a typo in your sig. Announcements
Blog comment spam would fall under two elements of the Quality Guidelines - Basic principles: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html David, spammers use programs/spiders to find and post bogus comments on blogs with links to their site. The comments are not the result of a human actually reading your blog content and responding to it. They employ similar means to spam forums (membership sign-ups only usually for the profile link), guestbooks, referrer logs (although that can also serve an advertising purpose for webmaster related subjects), etc.
wow. No wonder some are employing that "type in this imagged number to continue" technique. I didn't know you could write scripts powerful enough to auto-spam like that. I thought this was mostly done by hand, so to speak. But how does G track this? Do webmasters have to report odd bot activity on their sites, or is duplicate and generic post content looked for? If a bot displayed a randomly generated response from about 3000 well-written possible responses, it might not LOOK spammy enough to report...
Oh yea. They have a ball. I had one coming in from different ips at once a minute. Drove me nuts. Most blogs have a script you can implement that trashes the spam so you don't even see it. The newbies; maybe. The experienced use a script. They can do it with guestbooks too.
You and me both David I got into the blog thing like 3 ot 4 days ago, and now I have two diferent ones and am allready contemplating a third one (it really gets to you ). It seems like great fun to me, besides the obvious help it may (and may not) give to your website rankings.