Blogspot splogs in Technorati
13 Jan 2006For some reason, if I search for “baeyens” on Technorati (sorry, John), all I get is a list of splogs (spam blogs). The first ‘real’ result is somewhere at #50, drowned between WEBCAM, CAMERA and PHONE CARD splogs.
They all have the same characteristics:
- all on Blogger‘s blogspot.com
- post title is up to three spam words in upper case
- blog title is up to three spam words in lower case
- blog post contents is a sequence of words without any meaning (apparently ‘baeyens’ has become part of a standard splog dictionary)
- at the end of the blog post is an
iframepart - the
iframeinserts code from www.webs-search.com in the page that also redirects the browser to e.g. http://www.webs-search.com/search.php?key=guns (if the blog topic was ‘guns’) - that page is filled with ads that go through www.peakclick.com, an Austrian PPC site
What I mean is: Dave, you guys should be able to filter this scum out! And Matt, can’t you give the Blogger team a hand in attacking the splog problem from their side? We don’t want Technorati installing a if (domain ends in "blogspot.com") {/* treat as splog */ ... } rule, do we? Or do we?
webs-search.com
- domain is registered by a “Anrev, Kovacz contact@mwayc.com – 1003 Star Street – Novambark, na 88737363 – CA”
- the registration address for mwayc.com is “41 State Street – New York, NY 12345 – US”
- domain is hosted on an EV1 server: ev1s-67-15-104-73.ev1servers.net [67.15.104.73]
- the page title is ‘Licht und tonanlage’, which could mean that either the above Kovacz speaks German, or -more probable- that the site’s code was delivered by the Austrian PPC site.
Technorati: technorati – splog – blogspot – detection