I have a total dislike for sploggers and spammers. Now I had an interesting visit today from a lady with a pretty nice blog if you took the time to find it from the sales page that she wanted a backlink to. In general I have no problem with sales pages, I have a few out there myself at times.
But I have an objection to my bandwidth and blog being used as an advertising forum. I link back with no follow links to those who comment regularly. Every time I set up a site for someone, I use the same plugins I do on my own site to share that link love.
Starting with Lucias Linky Love that allows me to set an arbitrary amount of comments before they become followed links. But here is the thing, I guard my link love very jealously. I will not link to bad sites, I will not link to sales pages and most of all I will not link to splogs.
In fact I think the worst is splogs, They are even worse than those stupid russian pornographers that don’t get beyond aksimet. They seem to think that if they post there links to wankme.ru on every post I will eventually allow them. Well here’s the thing Aksimet puts you straight in the bin.
Sploggers however not only steal your content, they get you to link back to them via your pingback. It behooves you to check who is giving you pingbacks. Check out their blog or site and make sure that you are not assisting an Ed Dale 30 day challenge graduate to rank better than you for your own work.
Telling the difference between a splog and a blog is fairly simple. A splog will have your content, a link back and no added conversation. A blogger may have quoted some of your info in order to prove a point in their own argument.
Rest assured that any comment that has a link on it, will be visited by me before I will allow you a link. Once I know you, I am less strict about some things. But becoming a regular contributor on this blog does get you the link love you desire.
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Tags: Blogger, spammer, Splogger
