Characteristic no. 6
* Blogs with keywords in the URL. Then they are followed by characteristic no. 2. If you find this characteristics in a particular blog, then it's time to raise your Splog Suspect flag.
Characteristic no. 7
* Blogs that does not allow comments in their posts. Okay, although some blogs do this, majority of the Splogs really ban comments in their posts. Normal bloggers usually just set it in a way that they can moderate the comments. Sploggers do this so that other spammers could not also spam in their comments page by the time they achieve a high rank in the search engine results pages. No comments means no additional burden of deletion or moderation. That's also one characteristics of Splogs - they are low-maintennace blogs.
Characteristic no. 8
* Blogs that steal content. You stumble upon this blog, read it's post - and realize that you are reading your own write-up! Sploggers, because they simply have no time to create their own content, resort to completely or substantially stealing other people's ideas.
* Blogs with keywords in the URL. Then they are followed by characteristic no. 2. If you find this characteristics in a particular blog, then it's time to raise your Splog Suspect flag.
Characteristic no. 7
* Blogs that does not allow comments in their posts. Okay, although some blogs do this, majority of the Splogs really ban comments in their posts. Normal bloggers usually just set it in a way that they can moderate the comments. Sploggers do this so that other spammers could not also spam in their comments page by the time they achieve a high rank in the search engine results pages. No comments means no additional burden of deletion or moderation. That's also one characteristics of Splogs - they are low-maintennace blogs.
Characteristic no. 8
* Blogs that steal content. You stumble upon this blog, read it's post - and realize that you are reading your own write-up! Sploggers, because they simply have no time to create their own content, resort to completely or substantially stealing other people's ideas.
Characteristic no. 9
* Its content is trash. Really. Just read it. If the sentences just do not add up to each other or if the posts are really prone to grammatical lapses, then you might be looking at a potential Splog.
Characteristic no. 10
* Blogs with posts containing a particular word or phrase that is repeated all through out the article. That word or phrase is usually the keyword or keyphrase that Sploggers are aiming to get ranked highly for. And if the overall thought of the article really just does not add up - it's another Splog alert for you.
Those are some of the characteristics that you may observe whenever you encounter a Splog. But remember again though, not all users who create blogs to generate income are Splogs. Everything still depends on the content that you read. As long as it can be useful to users, even if it sells a product or promotes an advocacy or a company, it is still a blog. Do know when it those sites get overboard though.
Think twice of reporting a suspected Slog to Blogger. For all you know, you may be reporting a blog used by a genuine blogger who had efforted to construct his blog from scratch and who has a substantial number of folowers and visitors. A month of suspension or blog deletion may be a really big blow for those people.
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