I don’t know why this wasn’t an issue in the resent Presidential election, but blog spam is a gathering threat that bloggers need to deal with everyday.
We’re no strangers to spam, we have all received those offers and I wish just once I could receive a check rather then an email telling me I've won. Three years ago I was deleting over a hundred emails a day in all my various inboxes, ironically as spam-blockers became better blog spam has increased.
The true target of blog spam is Google ranking; we can’t blame Microsoft for this one. My question today is what is Google doing about this? Google promises to “do no evil”, blog spam is evil so Google is encouraging evil. Can we begin listing the biggest offenders of blog spam? Do we need to begin a blog spam blog to track the traffic and petition Google to help wipe it out?
Here are some I often find;
Sender: phentermine
Url: canadianlabels.net
IP Address: 157.61.47.4, 127.0.0.1
Sender: loans
Url :fidelityfunding.net
IP Address: 226.27.239.72
Abandoned blogs are a God sent to these slimly entrepreneurs, who wants to be in charge of cleaning up old abandoned blogs?