My results? What does my “high profile” have to do with a simple search issue? Nothing I said influences Google in anyway, shape, or form. I report problems through the normal pathways. No different than you. If the Blogspot junk is still there, I’m sorry. If we all work together to make a lot of noise, maybe something will happen, but it’s not because of me. Google doesn’t know I exist. :D

I also don’t get why they don’t just add some function to the flag button.

Lorelle, I think your results (the take downs) might have something to do with you having a high profile. Like a lot of companies, the accountability only happens as reputation management. You have an audience… you griped and they fixed YOUR problem. Someone with lesser visibility gets ignored. I took all the same steps as you and the blogspot junk is still there four months later.

The real problem with Google’s Blogger service: Neglect

WordPress.com is actually winning the battle, and it appears you are using blogspot by your comment information.

Bloggers are not at the mercy of sploggers. There are many ways of taking preventable action and responding to content scrapers and abusers of copyrights. WordPress.com cleaned out over 80,000 blogs last month and Akismet is working overtime to clean out comment spam. Sure, comment spam gets through because comment spammers are working overtime to find ways to get through, but mark them as comment spam (using the mass edit mode or list mode to get a lot of them at one time) and help Akismet learn to recognize their new methods. We work together as a team to prevent comment spam this way.

There are new techniques coming out all the time to help put an end to the profitability of sploggers and spammers. I’m so glad that WordPress and WordPress.com are among those fighting back, aren’t you?

Not. As long as they link to me, the source, I have a spammer’s incoming trackback or link to my blog. Google’s PageRank now includes TrustRank, which penalizes such links. My content is not as good as unique, It is copied. But that’s not the point of the article.

Hopefully, Google and Technorati will start cleaning up their mess of splogs thoroughly so we no longer have to deal with these nasties in the future.

Just how in the name of anything does my five+ year old, Bloggy award winning blog, listed by Blogger as a “blog of note”, end up in this firing line? I even make a continued effort to instantly delete obvious spam link comments.

I agree with you that spam blogs need to go, but that is some outstandingly bad algorithm Blogger is using.

While many Blogger users prefer to hide the nav-bar, it is still possible. I admit that Blogger does seem to make it easier than other systems for spammers to create and use a blog, though I must say that the problem is spam as a whole and is not limited to Blogger alone.

My main wish is that Google will properly crack down on spam blogs hosted on their system. I hate to know that the system I use and love has attracted such a bad reputation for this abuse through the blogosphere in general :(

It seems that every time there is a little pressure on the issue Blogger cleans up their act a bit and then lets things slide as things start to clear up a bit. That’s why it never winds up getting ahead, the pressure doesn’t keep up.

The trick is going to be making them maintain the effort even after the scrutiny is off of them.

I hope this time they actually do that though you’ll have to forgive my skepticism. I’ve been burned by them on this front before…

Excellent idea! I vote for that button! WordPress.com has it. Blogger/Blogspot used to, until many figured out how to remove the blue bar with the reporting links.

There is nothing WordPress can do about those who use their free, self-hosted WordPress blogging tool. It is not on a WordPress server, like WordPress.com. Sploggers are not moving – they have always been using WordPress. Not much we within the WordPress Community or Automattic can do to stop them directly. But there is a lot that bloggers can do to stop sploggers no matter where they are hosted or what blogging program they are using.

To help you understand the difference, and what can and cannot be directly done by WordPress, I wrote Content Theft and WordPress. If you find a splog on WordPress.com, they respond immediately to remove it.

I have been finding a lot of sploggers moving over to WordPress.org (and hosting it on their own or another companies servers) in order to avoid being penalized on both Blogger and WordPress.

And no, this is not an April Fool’s comment. ;-)