Sentences with word «splog»

My very first task was to create a few dozen splogs on freehost domains and to link them all together with exact match anchor texts, so it's suffice to say that a lot has changed during the -LSB-...]
My very first task was to create a few dozen splogs on freehost domains and to link them all together with exact match anchor texts, so it's suffice to say that a lot has changed during the past ten years.
I thought of splogs again recently because of a new Web 2.0 app, Clipmarks.
The theory is that ads on real weblogs are by and large uninteresting to visitors, who come for the content; but those who arrive in splogs will find themselves with «wrong» content and «right» ads, and so will click on the ads.
They sound like something out of a B - grade science fiction movie, but splogs are a serious danger to the use of blogs as a communications tool for politics or any other subject.
If you don't run a blog or online discussion group, you've probably never heard of them, but spam comments (fake comments submitted en masse and intended to send traffic to a splog or other money - making site) are a real danger for sites that want to encourage public discussion.
Weirdly, these two examples link to sites that don't seem to exist, so I'm not quite sure what their purpose is — normally, spam comments try to send traffic to fake blogs («splogs») that make money through Google Ads or other contextual advertising.
If you don't run a blog or online discussion group, you've probably never heard of them, but spam comments (fake comments submitted en masse and intended to send traffic to a splog or other money - making site) are a real danger for sites that want to encourage public...
Hence the splogs and spam sites containing post after post and page after page of text automatically gathered and generated to best fit Google's search engine algorithms and filled to the last pixel with advertising, so that every page view and clickthrough is maximized as a source of revenue.
The vast majority are splogs (blogs set up to spam) or static, underutilized locations with a few posts talking about themselves.
Google cracked down on guest posting — in particular article directories and splogs (spam blogs).
advantages: users may be able to see original page that matches their search terms, quality control for the search engine (splogs, reverse - video text, webrings, etc.); disadvantages: possible user confusion about source — link to original is still pre-eminent — user has to make an active choice to use cache version
I recently came across this April 9th post by Steve Rubel that drives the point home: «94 % of all email is spam, 64 % of all English language blogs are splogs, and click fraud for sponsored links rose by 15 % last year alone.
REVERSES INTO spam blog («splog») comment spam very public arguments and embarrassments libel and slander disorganized lists time consumer
But the email got me thinking about weblogs and copyright — and wondering what «splogs» were.
But — you can also make your clippings public, so that others can search and see them, which makes that portion of the Clipmarks site a splog, so far as I'm concerned, albeit a splog that's created by volunteer minions.
Or... it's really contracting, because, according to The Basement, the explosive growth seems to be spam blogs, or «splogs
Splogs are blogs that find their content exclusively in the publishings of other weblogs — they are «spam + blogs,» the aim of which is to make money out of the enterprise of others.
Thanks for the «splog» explanation, it's helpful.
A little while ago Slaw got an email pointing out that one of our stories linked an excerpt from an author's work to a «splog» and not to the site where the author originally put it.
About 70 % of the pings Technorati receives are from known spam sources, but we drop them before we have to send out a spider to go and index the splog.
Spam blogs or «splogs» has been a problem for some time now and people are getting confused about which blog to trust.
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