If you look through the posts under the Technorati tag ‘Adsense’ you find most posts are from a blog “Adsense For profit” or “holy grail of adsense dot com” (No, I won’t link to it, I don’t like their kind).
When you click the link of the post, which typically links to a http://www.holygrail__.com/ archives/ $number, you are redirected to the site of a hosting provider spagack dot info. When you click the name of the blog, you don’t see a blog, but a classic badly designed, keyword infested, get-rich-quick spam page for a handbook on Adsense advertising ($80).
Why would Technorati include a spam page, you say? Well, the web site is actually built on a WordPress blog software, but with a firmly modified template: in the HTML there are some <div> tricks to push the blog-generated content out of sight and throw the spam page in your face. When you check the actual contents of the blog feed: it’s some kind of automatic re-post of Adsense related articles, but with the links (anchor tags) modified to <ab href="http://...">...</ab>, so they do not get picked up by crawlers like Google and Technorati.
Who is responsible for this stuff? The DNS registration shows it to be a certain Amy Cross from Texas, who’s also behind the spagack hosting site. The address she uses is a mailbox in McCamey, TX 79752, which I first expected to be a phony mailbox just like they used in the DRA scam, but there actually is an Amy Cross registered in McCamey. Amy has already been outed as a spammer on www.blogherald.com (Apr 2005). She actually responded to it:
I guess I’ll just leave it alone. I can learn to handle any insult from any small minded nit as long as it gives me the exposure and reach that you have given me.
I guess she’ll be delighted with this post then.
Other blog posts on the issue of Technorati spam: johnaugust.com
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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/links in the Technorati (web and rss)interface itself (comparable with what you have in Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail etc�)