First I am going to tell you what a splogger is and how to identify sploggers. Sploggers are content thieves. They use your and my RSS feed to create a website. In fact there is software available to the splogging community that searches the web for articles that mention their keywords. They then copy and paste your content to their websites. Some of them will even link back to your website with some inane link like “This great article originally posted by”and your blog name.
You see a pingback and assume it’s a compliment to your writing skills and you publish it. They do this a thousand times a day, hoping that you will publish the pingback. You do so and using your content and your vote these sites get better Google rankings. Factually the site with the most links is more likely to be higher on Google than the one with less.
So Sploggers use your content and your back link to become more important on the Internet than you are for your own content. It’s fairly simple to identify splogs. When you click back to the site and go to the front page you will see nothing original. The site is likely to have a dozen short articles linking back to other peoples articles.
Or even worse you will see sites that have advertising on them with no content. Delete these pingbacks and never publish them.
Tags: backlinks, comment, Pingback spam, pingbacks, Spam, sploggers
October 30th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
I have an important question… being sensitive to etiquette and believing that what goes around comes around, I want to fully understand what you are and are not talking about.
Are you saying that it is ALWAYS bad to grab someone’s content and put on your site? I have foound an article or blog that I like, do an intro, put there stuff in a way it is obvious it is theirs and then do a conclusion. I give them full credit, say why I like or do not like what they say and always give a link back to their site. I was thinking this was mutually beneficial!
Christine Hiebel
October 30th, 2008 at 10:01 pm
Christine
Sploggers use content without adding to it. Bloggers may use someone elses work for reference in order to expand on their own thoughts.
When you are creating a post and you reference my post and quote a part of it, you are doing us both good. When you copy my work without adding to the discussion you are stealing from me.
For instance if you Google “Kawasaki Nelspruit” The 2nd article is mine, further down the list is a splogger URLfan. He has taken part of my content, wrapped ads around it and added nothing to the conversation. That is a splog and it stinks.
You will also have noted that I edited your question because I will not supply backlinks to sales pages.