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Spammers are always looking for new ways to to manipulate the system to deliver their useless messages. Recently it appears that spammers have beem manipulating Google’s Blogspot which offers free blog hosting combined with an free MSN/Hotmail email account to blast bloggers with comment spam. I opened my Wordpress Dashboard and saw my comments had been flooded by prescription drug spammers, porn and mortgage spam with links back to free Blogspot blogs that were nothingmore than MFA (Made For Adsense) pages. I started deleting comments but they were coming in faster than I could delete them so I had no choice but to blacklist all comments containing links to Blogspot. I honestly think Google should show a little more responsibilty if they are going to offer these free services to anybody who wants to abuse them. I personally don’t appreciate having my server loaded with spam comments and I’ll never understand why somebody would be so rude as to waste my time deleting their junk.

Here’s a small list of the Blogspot blogs that were spamming me to death…

I really wish Google would be a little more proactive in what they allow for content if they are going to allow people to sign up for anonymous free blogs. Until something changes I’ve blacklisted any comments with a blogspot url in the comment or in the return link on all of my blogs. I think I’m expressing the frustration many of us bloggers are currently feeling about comment spam and the fact that Google pretends to be so adamant about fighting search engine spam yet they operate two of the most notorious spam haus services on the internet in Blogpsot and Blogger. In my opinon, if a blogger can’t afford a domain name and a $5 per month hosting account there’s obviously nothing I’d be interested in reading on their site because hosting a free blog pretty much shows you’re not making a dime from your blog (unless you’re using it to lure people in for prescription drugs or free porn). Most of the free blog sites offer trashy garbage blogs or blogs with stolen content. Recently I had the displeasure of finding a blog on Google’s Blogger service that had blatantly stolen several of my best articles and even got them into Digg and actually had more Diggs than my original post did. It’s of little or no use trying to report a Blogger or Blogspot blog because all Google offers is the little “Flag this Blog” link but if your flagging it because of stolen content, how are they going to know? If anybody knows of a more effective way to report stolen content and spam to Google that’s coming from their free blog hosting services, please feel free to leave a comment here.

         

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1. baseball collectibles on September 17th, 2007

   I checked the link to the first blog and its gone. Probably if you flag it once someone checks it out and If its obvious(like it was in this case) they probably remove it.

   I agree totally though about the free blogging crap. I’m shocked that some blogs get actual real traffic that are hosted on free services. Ive always subconciously considered free sites, subpar, even before i learned how to create my own site.

2. Dave on September 17th, 2007

   I reported several of them but it’s not my job to regulate sites that Google is serving,

3. BladeGunner on October 25th, 2007

   I’ve been getting a lot of these weird useless site linking to in my comments lately and I’m wondering, do they help improve page ranking at all? I mean, they’re not blogger accounts but they seem to be empty sites that have a whole bunch of scaper content.

4. Re: Enormous list of 340+ DoFollow Blogs on December 13th, 2007

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   Why not use Wordpress free blog services instead. It makes it so much easier if you decide to move o…

5. FMS on March 20th, 2008

   agree totally though about the free blogging crap. I’m shocked that some blogs get actual real traffic

6. Manatoq on September 11th, 2008

   Blogspot and Blogger blogs are total trash. nothing but crap on that network. I don’t allow any of them in my blog directory.