5 Comments so far

1. CA on August 22, 2007 11:52 am

   Allen, thank you very much for bringing these guys to light. I am going through the past carnivals I have hosted to weed them out.

   I was right in suspecting something amiss a month ago when I visited their blogs and did not find any information on their about pages.

   Thanks again.

2. Krishna De on August 30, 2007 8:49 am

   Scott - thank youfor posting the list of splogs. I had just written an article about why your “About” page is going to become more prominent, as I have noticed an terrific increase in my articles from my subscription newsletter and my articles on my blogs and in Ezine Articles being reprinted - and often without attribution.

   Then Louise Manning at http://thehumanimprint.typepad.com/ kindly pointed me towards your site where you had listed a number of splogs.

   When I host carnivals I do check the blogs and that can take some time when you have 70 plus submissions - but I think it is worth it and also the posts we reference reflect our personal brand and reputation.

   It will be interesting to see the response you get from Ezine Articles.

   In the meantime we need to make sure that we are tracking our own articles using Google Alerts - that is how I’ve found many of my articles across the web in the first instance.

3. John Furst on October 22, 2007 10:29 pm

   Charan A. from Carnival of Small Business Issues has posted info about some splogs that I detected today. If you are interested in additional info, please, contact me.

4. Matthew on March 24, 2008 11:26 pm

   Thanks for this post. I recently started a blog and all of a sudden I’m getting comments that seemed very out of place. This really helped me realize that they weren’t meaningful comments!

5. Paradox on April 17, 2008 12:43 am

   Looks like akismet is catching them. Saw this, and their posts looked legit, but after reading up, i wont let this through. Thanks for the heads up.