The "Splogs Network"
I was working last night on Antisplog and find some new issues which are very interesting. The most important issue is related to splogs which use a very minimal page with 3 or 4 links to other splogs of their own, an adsense banner, a title, and that's all. In two words, if by chance you or someone else visit such splog the most relevant content on the page will be the adsense banner, second thing will be the links to other splogs. And that's how sploggers are making their network.
For Antisplog such pages are not considered as splogs "currently", for many reasons :
- It is not blogs-like
- Pages without content at all
- Links are very poor
I called this very poor splogs network, why this name ? Because it's meaningless for search engines and for visitors. I don't know about the techniques that owner of such websites are using to monetize them but they have certainly their ways to do so.
Technically there is many advantages to deal with such websites, the most interesting one is the fact when you detect one of them, the whole network could be easily flagged as splogs. This will really optimize the detection time, since I'm already flagging relation between blogs.
There is certainly many different kind of splogs around the blogosphere, but I'm sure of something : if splogs become not useful for their owners their number will decrease progressively until it disappear definitively.
