I run backlink checks on the sites I watch over via Google Blog Search, you
know, now the number one
blog search or something like that. For the past two weeks, they’re getting
clogged with the type of crap I’ll list below. There’s always been some of this,
but it’s worse than normal.
Now really, I should file a
Google spam report.
Or, I should also go to each of these splogs (all hosted on Blogger’s BlogSpot),
stop some of them from reloading junky content and then use the little "Flag
Blog" link that shows on some off them (not all of them, by any means) to report the
objectionable content. But screw that.
In the spirit of the squeaky wheel gets the grease, I’m skipping past all the
usual methods and just outing them for being so f’ing annoying. Sorry, but three
days off from work left me mellow, which in turn leaves me ranty and irritable
about this crud when I get back to work.
Here’s
one of the backlink checks I do; here’s
another (yeah, I still watch Search Engine Watch in case someone links to
something I’ve written in the past). I also run checks on Daggle and
The Daily SearchCast. Take a look at
these items that flooded my feedreader today:
-
Free No Purchase Background Searches That I Can Do Myself -
Free Only People Search Uk
People Search Engine-
Search For People To Talk To On Yahoo Messenger -
Yahoo People Search 20 -
People Yahoo Search Uk -
Search People From Yahoo By Location -
Yahoo People Search Australia 20 -
Search Engines List For People -
No Fee Based People Search Engines -
Fee People Search Engine -
Lost People Search Engine -
Yahoo People Search 20 -
People By Address Free Search Engine -
Locating People Search Engines -
New People Search Engines -
People Search Via Address -
Msn People Search Find Email Address -
Tail Long Search Find Study Case Things Users People Show -
People Search Engine Background 20 -
Most Powerful Search Engine For Locating People In -
Search Yahoo People Chat -
People Search Com Yahoo 20 -
Village People Search Engine -
Engine Free Only People Search Uk Virgin -
Tail Long Search Find Study Case Things Users People Show -
Village People Search Engine
Most of these pages simply feature scraped Google search results. That’s the
search engine food, of course. Then they fire you off to another site using this
code to load a frame up:
<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="1" height="1" src="http://bestpriceforall.com/detective/counter.php?tm=people_search"
align="left"></iframe>
Like I said, I could do the regular spam reporting route. But that means
covering at least 10 different Blogger accounts. I don’t have time to do this.
Who does? And isn’t the algorithm supposed to weed this garbage out? You know,
algorithmically. Isn’t Blogger supposed to be halting sign-ups of accounts like
this, you know, like they
say:
Automated spam classifying algorithms keep spam blogs out of NextBlog and out
of our "Recently Published" list on the dashboard.
Um hmm. Like how after I flagged one of this, then clicked Next Blog out of
curiosity and ended up on a phentermine blog. Argh. Argh, argh, argh!
There’s one big caveat on this, of course. The relevancy of backlink lookups
is much different than the relevancy if I was doing a keyword search. Pages that
might otherwise get buried in a keyword search (and thus not be annoying) are
more likely to show up in a backlink search. Then again, Robert Scoble wasn’t
that
impressed recently with the splogs on a keyword search for his name.
Anyway, I just want it to be magically fixed. While you’re at it, fix the Google News Search press release junk Greg’s
complaining
about. And ban the affiliate site(s) generating this. And their families. And
burn their villages, salt their fields and yank the site paying the affiliates
for a day or two.
