Comments on: Annoying Trend Watch: Technorati spam blogs

By: Jane Carnall

Jane Carnall — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:29:09 +0000

My solution is to disrupt them by having the "bad words" option on the bulletin boards I monitor replace "technorati" with the phrase "In our experience, technorati blogs are linked to only by spammers: we are therefore disrupting this webaddress: please contact the administrator if this a legitimate link".

I've been building up a list of standard words and phrases used by spambots, and these days it's quite frequent for a spam post on my boards to be partially or wholly disrupted by "bad words" interventions that break the URLs and make nonsense of the message.

By: Stealth

Stealth — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:46:44 +0000

FYI – Today is October 8th at 10:40 PM, California time, which is almost 2 1/2 years since you wrote this post. I thought you would be interested to know that this post ranks on the first page of Google for the search term “how to spam technorati” which totally makes me laugh because clearly you were trying to rank for “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”. Maybe you could use this to your advantage?

By: Hunting spamblogs

Hunting spamblogs — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:50:11 +0000

[...] Apparently, the idea of building a public blacklist of spamblogs on del.icio.us or other bookmarking services hasn’t taken off. If I had given it more thought then, I should have seen why: there is no incentive for denouncing a blog as spamblog as long as blog search engines donâ€™t use it (a chicken and egg problem: they won’t do this before some substantial amount of data has been collected ). And even then, there’s no immediate reward for doing so. What the user wants (as I suggested at other complaints on spam blogs and technorati spam), is a simple simple â€œreport as spamâ€? button or link in the (web/email/rss) interface itself (comparable with the email spam buttons in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail etcâ€¦) so that annoying blogs or feeds are filtered from the resultset immediately. Definitely something to look forward in a next Technorati release, see the David Sifry’s comments on this blog search wish list. So far for the idea of having a public blacklist, because I’m afraid none of the services (Technorati, Feedster, Pubsub, Yahoo Myweb2.0,…) will be motivated to share its results though (the ability to effectively filter out spam being a major competitive advantage!)… [...]

By: Backbone Blogging Survey

Backbone Blogging Survey — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 21:36:06 +0000

Will Technorati.com Remove the Spammers? In my work helping several clients on blog relations strategies for Backbone Media Iâ€™ve been using Technorati.com more often than ever before in the last few months. For eight months I was Director of Marketing for 48hourprint.com where I was...

By: pascal van hecke

pascal van hecke — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 10:24:48 +0000

http://pascal.vanhecke.info/2005/06/01/hunting-spamblogs/

I suggested a way users/readers could build a public blacklist of spamblogs. Apparently, the idea doesn’t work: there is no immediate reward for denouncing a blog as spamblog as long as blog search engines don’t use it, and for the time being, their presence on del.icio.us even increases their visibility…

I assume the only way to combat spamblogs and related feeds are simple “report as spam” buttons in the Technorati interface itself (comparable with what you have in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail etc…)

By: Denise Van Patten

Denise Van Patten — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 23:36:23 +0000

I just discovered one of these wretched spam blogs today–it does nothing but quote paragraphs, verbatim, off of my legitimate blog (URL above) and use it to get people to click on their ad farm. Of couse, it comes up higher in Technorati than my blog, not to mention that it is so prolific that it throws the entire search out of whack if you search for the term “dolls”. I really hope something can be done about these spam blogs before they ruin blogging.

By: DC

DC — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 18:58:30 +0000

I agree with JonnyB - there is a huge movement by SEO consultants to try to increase search engine rankings for their customers (and justify their fees) by creating these false blogs and news sites that are monitored by real and regarded services, such as Technorati. The sad part is that these tactics work, so we will continue to see more of them until Google and Yahoo revamp their ranking system.

Besides, John, we know you really want that Johnny Depp poster for your bedroom, right?

By: tdneel

tdneel — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:01:15 +0000

This phenomenon is really irritating, but I must admit it’s clever. It reminds me of Jeff Goldblum from “Jurassic Park,” “Nature finds a way.” Well, I guess spam finds a way, as well.

By: JÃ¸rn Buch Larsen

JÃ¸rn Buch Larsen — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:12:42 +0000

It get’s even more stupid if you try one of the links from that site: http://johnny-depp-posters.blogspot.com/2005_02_15_johnny-depp-posters_archive.html

jÃ¸rn

By: JonnyB

JonnyB — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 08:51:56 +0000

They're less to drive traffic, more to get the linked-to sites higher up the Google search rankings.

Blogspot is full of these sites - they can be generated free and easily. Given Blogger's continued creakiness, I can't imagine that it's a priority for them to look into this, I'm afraid.