Blogger’s Spam Prevention Hurts Legitimate Business Blogs

Blogger’s attempt to shut down spam blogs as reported earlier here is taking it toll on LEGITIMATE blogs that attempt to keep posts KEYWORD FOCUSED for maximum Adsense Revenue and Search Engine Optimization!

Legitimate bloggers may seek to optimize the content of their posts to move up the search engines. That’s GOOD for Google because if they are legitimate, informative posts, they should be ranked high and pay well. That helps the reader, Google and the blogger.

But when such posts are flagged by blogger, to unlock them takes

1) Word verification and

2) a 24 hour wait while the blogger people look to see if it’s a “real blog” in their opinion.

What triggers this is still a mystery.

Hopefully you’ll not be put out of commission too long by Blogger’s new “blog police”.

Remember keep it personalized so it looks like a REAL PERSON to withstand this first “spam test”.

If you’re blog is ON THE EDGE of personal and you need to make it look “nice”, you may still be able to edit and repost the template.

Here’s what the folks at blogger have to say.

What Are Spam Blogs?
As with many powerful tools, blogging services can be both used and abused. The ease of creating and updating webpages with Blogger has made it particularly prone to a form of behavior known as link spamming. Blogs engaged in this behavior are called spam blogs, and can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.

Spam blogs cause various problems, beyond simply wasting a few seconds of your time when you happen to come across one. They can clog up search engines, making it difficult to find real content on the subjects that interest you. They may scrape content from other sites on the web, using other people’s writing to make it look as though they have useful information of their own. And if an automated system is creating spam posts at an extremely high rate, it can impact the speed and quality of the service for other, legitimate users.

What We’re Doing About Spam
Needless to say, we do not approve of spamming here at Blogger. Below are some of the things we’ve implemented to remove and reduce spam on our service. We will update this list as we continue our efforts.

Automated spam classifying algorithms keep spam blogs out of NextBlog and out of our “Recently Published” list on the dashboard.

The same classifiers are used to require an extra word verification field on the posting form for potential spam blogs. This makes it harder for spammers to set up automated systems to do their posting, since a human needs to complete this step.

The Flag as Objectionable button in the Navbar lets you notify us of problem blogs that you find, so we can review them and take appropriate action.