How would you deal with splogs?


I’ve noticed a reduction in recent weeks in spam hitting my site but an increase in splogs—fake blogs—stealing my RSS feed content. Does this mark a change in tactics on the part of the parasites? If so, it’s leading me to contemplate the formerly unthinkable.

My blog has been around for a very long time now. Well, I think it’s been around for a long time. I first started producing content for The Spicy Cauldron in August 2004. I guess the longer a blog is maintained, the greater the risk of interference from undesirables because with each passing day, month and year they’ve got more chance of finding your site via search engines as more and more of your pages get indexed.

A long-running blog is like a pot of honey getting bigger and bigger, not being noticed by bees but by predatory wasps.

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

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