Comments on: 60% of Blogger blogs Spam Blogs: test

By: Is Blogging Becoming Less Authorative? | The Gospel According To Rhys

Is Blogging Becoming Less Authorative? | The Gospel According To Rhys — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:04:27 +0000

[...] in that Google Have Become Too Big For Their Britches. It can’t be a spam measure, as 60% of Google Blogspot Blogs are Spam. My thoughts are that Google are trying to create an enclosed blogging network, whereby you [...]

By: Scalable web architectures » Blog Archive » Crawling sucks.

Scalable web architectures » Blog Archive » Crawling sucks. — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:34:29 +0000

[...] and harry were pinging weblogs.com and so were all the spammers. The spam statistics blew me away. 60% of the blogs were spam according to a few analysts in 2005. I’m sure this number has gone up [...]

By: » Surrending to spam blogs? The Blog Herald: more blog news more often

» Surrending to spam blogs? The Blog Herald: more blog news more often — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 01:11:20 +0000

[...] rom Icerocket due to spam blogs, which, to his credit, he’s now done. Also in August was a test that found that 60% of blogs on the blogspot domain are spam [...]

By: Vida Vacia 4.1 » Blogger, puro spam

Vida Vacia 4.1 » Blogger, puro spam — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 14:58:14 +0000

[...] or Blogger y hallÃ³ que el 60% eran spamblogs. Â¿Y quÃ© va a hacer Google ahora? (visto en The Blog Herald). Popularity: 4%

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By: Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber — Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:08:51 +0000

Please help us in cleaning up the blogosphere by reporting any spam blogs or splogs you encounter to Splog Reporter. To learn more about it go here: http://www.splogreporter.com

By: Mitrax

Mitrax — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:16:07 +0000

This was a highly inaccurate test.

I’m a fan of Blogoscoped, but I assume he just hit the Next bar on the first 100 Google Blogs. This would give very skewed results for the number of spammers.

This is because the “next blog” button only registers the most recently updated blogs. And one of the tricks of spam bloggers is that they automatically update their blogs several times a day.

So this stat would vastly overestimate the number of spam blogs on Blogger.

By the way, Duncan, thanks so much for your advice on my blog recently.

I was worried about how complicated it would be to move off Blogger and get my own domain name (but still stay with the Blogger software). I’ve since made the leap. It’s too soon to know how much this will improve visibility in the search engines, but I should know by next month.

By: N. Mallory

N. Mallory — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 22:07:12 +0000

That makes sense considering 60% of my email is spam.

By: Sigg3

Sigg3 — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:28:39 +0000

Out of whatever number of blogs Blogspot may host, a good deal of them certainly is spam. Just try using the Next>> button in the top-right corner where you have the “google bar”.

Still, a test like this is highly inaccurate.
If I tested 50 _random_ blogs, it could as well turn out to be 100% spam, or 0% spam, or 30% spam.

In addition, 50 is a very small sample of x million.

By: Telagon Sichelputzer » Blogspot - The Spam Domain

Telagon Sichelputzer » Blogspot - The Spam Domain — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:04:53 +0000

[...] blogs are solely spammers. I wonder how the Blogspot users will react to this… [via The Blog Herald]

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By: Brian Benzinger

Brian Benzinger — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:47:12 +0000

Wow, that is worse than I thought. Why do people have to go and clutter the web like that. Sigh.