A2B has been reporting success in identifying and block splogs based on IP addresses. They have significantly reduced the load on their server by actively block sploggers. This seems like it is a very effective strategy for them. They have identified 442 servers that are dedicated to sending splogs.
Frank and Jeff, who started SplogReporter, are looking for someone to help out with their service.
Recently, Jeff and I have become extremely busy with our personal lives yet we continue to receive praise, questions and requests via our SR feedback page just about everyday. To be quite honest with you we cannot keep up with all of the feedback.
In realizing our short-handedness, we would be willing to bring on some help in the spirit of the movement to continue to move the product forward in a positive manner by developing out some of the requested features that we have received as feedback.
If you think you may be able to help out, let them know.
Randy Morin has posted a Splogger Challenge to www.301powered.com. This site was copying the full text of Randy’s posts along with other feeds. The owner of the site supplied a response, claiming the site was not splog, but a useful aggregation of feeds.
The two posts have generated a lot of comments on Randy’s site, debating whether or not the site is splog. I have to agree with Randy on this one for calling the creator of the site out. The site is re-posting full text of entire feeds without permission, clearly making it a copyright violation. Whether or not to call the site “splog” does not seem as clear cut. The site is different from typical splog which is usually not useful to anyone at all, and is created mostly to get hits from search engines. So I would say this is borderline splog.
Matt Cutts is asking for feedback about what Google should do about web spam in 2006.
Okay, I’m most interested in hearing what people think Google should tackle in webspam. Based on your experiences, close your eyes and think about what area(s) you wish Google would work on. You probably want to think about it for a while without viewing other people’s comments, and I’m not going to mention any specific area that would bias you; I want people to independently consider what they think Google should work on to decrease webspam in the next six months to a year.
I won’t bias you with my thoughts on it either, but you probably have a good idea of what I think the biggest problem is 