Comments on: Splogs, Spam, Spings, Scraper Sites and Sanity

By: Menu Bar-Blog Info Tab « Blogging Lessons

Menu Bar-Blog Info Tab « Blogging Lessons — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:00:55 +0000

[...] Check out this post that I wrote about spam sites. [...]

By: Are Your Permalinks Naked?

Are Your Permalinks Naked? — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:14:41 +0000

[...] it. Instead I would include the permalink that with one click would take you directly to the site. http://bloggingforboomers.com/splogs-spam-spings-scraper-sites-and-sanity/ But if I were to include it in a post reference I would probably say , Check out the post I made [...]

By: Jocelyn Toolie Garner

Jocelyn Toolie Garner — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:04:00 +0000

If only all this spammer ingenuity was put to better use! Those CAPTCHA blocks do help reduce spam entries. If you have an existing HTML form on a web site, there are scripts that can add CAPTCHA to it without too much effort. I teach stuff like this in my web site class (www.pcpowertips.com/webclass) because I’ve had to fight spammers myself.

By: Old School

Old School — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 03:54:10 +0000

Bev, it appears that in the zeal to make money by any means this stuff happens

By: Beverly Mahone

Beverly Mahone — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:32:05 +0000

Wow! It’s amazing to learn this stuff. I had never heard of a splog until it showed up in one of my google alerts. Thanks for this very valuable information, Rosie.

And you mean to tell me there are people who create whole websites from content on other websites. What kind of monster is the world-wide web really creating?

By: Old School

Old School — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:00:16 +0000

Kathie, any suggestions for how to search when that navigation bar is turned off?

By: Old School

Old School — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:56:58 +0000

Thanks Sally, our objective for this site is to learn, and share with others in a non-technical and overwhelming way.
In addition it keeps the old brain cells young.

By: Dr. Sally Witt

Dr. Sally Witt — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:31:27 +0000

Rosie,

Another timely and perfectly appropriate post! Everyone is so oversensitive about spam and spammers, but they may not know what they really are.

Thank you for researching and helping others to understand the big issues.

Hugs,

Sally

http://www.drsallywitt.com

By: Kathie M. Thomas

Kathie M. Thomas — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:18:35 +0000

Thanks for this. Unfortunately many of those sploggers with Blogger turn off the navbar so you can’t flag them and you have to know what address to go to, to report them. Few people will bother searching for that. But it is good to know more about this topic and thanks for the link to Lorrelle’s post as well.