Wednesday, August 15, 2007

what are splogs?

a splog is a form of web-based spam in the form of a blog...

unlike comment spam, in the case of splogs the entire blog in question is spam, not just a small part of it... because blogs are so easy to setup and publish content on it's become a popular way of spamvertising a site...

to combat this type of abuse of service, blogging service providers typically employ anti-spam techniques like CAPTCHAs to prevent the automated creation of splogs but CAPTCHAs are becoming less effective as techniques for defeating them are developed... on top of that, CAPTCHAs don't prevent real live humans from setting up splogs... because of this, blogging service providers try to prune out splogs manually when they become aware of them...

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