Google Supporting Spammers / Sploggers Not Bloggers
Have you been getting spam comments from a site talkf(dot)com? Do you get tons of spam from them? Well if you do you are not the only one, there may be tons of sites that get spam comments from them, I have got 300 spam comments in last two days from them and thanks to Akismet I am safe enough but then, few of them do escape the Akismet web too and land up in your normal comments.
The surprise of all is that Google Search is archiving 50,800 links related to talkf(dot)com, just do a search for talkf(dot)com (replace (dot) with "." without the quotes and you will see it) or else follow this Google Search link and you will see.
Lets look beyond few days with Google penalizing users for having paid links for which Google dropped their page ranks, the bloggers are sincerely making money by selling paid links which was happening for quite sometime. Now Google penalized them right, something that they ought to do for gaming their systems.
Now lets look at the bigger games Google is ignoring?
Can they explain the spam links? Can they explain paying sploggers for robbing our content? Now I see a spammer has 50800 search results and the spammer is not even a month old yet in spamming (here is the email id for the site khan_fly@yahoo.com please spam him, more from whois), is this justified?
For the past few days everything about Google is being said and done and I respect them for sending me a huge amount of users but some of the things they do just does not get beyond my thinking.
Being a silent victim is like saying run a truck over my stomach I have enough in it to sustain the pain. I just care that you run the truck for me and make it bigger at my expense. If you have this attitude everyone will run over you and you will just sit silent saying hey it does not matter I make money out of you, you can carry on with what you do and how you like it to be done I just care about making money.
Think for yourself and decide if you want to fight, if Google wants to penalize you they can if you want to complain then what?
I have reported the site to Google lets see what happens, if you too want to report the site you can do too. I know they say the mess is so big how can we clear it? But can we let it grow bigger? Can we just sit back and let anything happen? Can we just sit back and take anything on our face? Can we say that we can’t fight it and leave it as it is? Can we just say hey I am earning money let the rest of things go to hell?
Are you a victim to of the spam comments? Do you have a problem with Google and are not expressing it? I want to know more from you all, this is not the end of my fight and I don’t care if this site does not earn a penny. All that matters is giving a fight when it matters, I understand no one will join but this is a fight I will continue even if there is no one that listens to me.
Mani Karthk
October 25th, 2007 at 11:06 pm #
Keith. I guess many bloggers are going through the same now. Desperation !
Google is doing nothing about sploggers, even if they are the rate at which they are taking it up is simply painful.
I think this should be prioritized to anything else now. And some innovative methods should introduced in the algorithm to catch them.
If not, I better be running 25 splogs. It’s easy, smart and legal isn’t it?
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keith Reply:
October 26th, 2007 at 7:17 am
LOL, Yea we should start running splogs and make money out of it, it is right desperation is the word that comes up when something like this happens. Anyways Google needs to get their house straight very soon, the happenings of past few days are not doing them any good.
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Brown Baron
October 25th, 2007 at 11:16 pm #
This is really getting out of hand. Google should have spent their time cracking down on splogs instead of legit bloggers. This is like saying we should all aspire to be prosploggers. Nicely said buddy.
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keith Reply:
October 26th, 2007 at 7:16 am
Yups Brown I guess we should all turn into prosploggers quite a term you have coined out.
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Innovations & Interesting Ramblings
October 26th, 2007 at 4:09 am #
While i comment this i am seeing this google ad on your page in the footer:
“Bye-Bye Adsense – Earn $2-$6 with widgetbucks
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a google ad that says bye-bye to adsense…quite funny…google doesn’t mind these ads as long as they make money…
but google is not making money when you sell text link through others…that is a threat to adsense and they don’t like it…
Likewise google wouldn’t mind these as long as they are not the victims…
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keith Reply:
October 26th, 2007 at 7:13 am
You make quite a Valid point Rajesh, they are scared that they will lose their domination. But if someone else is a victim it can go to the winds.
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ReviewSaurus
October 26th, 2007 at 4:35 am #
Hey Keith I understand the frustration and believe me I love the fact that you are doing something about it. I’ve stumbled the post and I’m sure other people will also do it!
Hey do one thing…include the link where people can report about this site and make it big enough that people don’t ignore it either.
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keith Reply:
October 26th, 2007 at 7:12 am
Thanks for your support ReviewSaurus it is better than keeping quite, if everyone keeps quite nothing will happen, but my email to Google is making some impact, the last I saw the search results it was down to 49800.
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Ashish Mohta
October 26th, 2007 at 5:08 am #
Pretty Good voice Keith. All i can hope is Google comes with something better . All we can do is hope
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keith Reply:
October 26th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Yes Ashish all we can do is hope.
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