Lijit is a popular and well-respected search application for bloggers. Many sites, including this one, use it because it not only drastically improves upon the default WordPress search, but also because it allows searchers to pull content from sites within the blogger’s network, including soci...

A recent post on Mashable regarding a tool called WordPress Direct elicited a great deal of passion on both sides. One commenter, for example, called the service a “one stop shop spam blog engine” while another, who claims to have used the service, said it was “a simple solution to...

When people find out that their content is being copied without permission, how they seek to handle it is often determined, in part, by whether or not the site is a spam blog. Where many might be willing to forgive copying by a novice blogger, especially with the promise of a link back, most are not...

After my last post regarding Wide Circles I exchanged emails with one of their support representatives, with their message being... We definitely do not tolerate any kind of SPAM at all Unfortunately the evidence available to me at the time not just on my own blog but elsewhere, was in stark contras...

A few weeks back, a reader of this site noticed a spam blogger not only scraping his posts, but backdating the entries before re-posting them. The resulting site made it appear as if all of the scraped entries had appeared well before the original ones, possibly tricking both search engines and huma...

If you think there is a lack of fake Blogs, Spam Blogs and otherwise unsurely types doing everything they can to make some dough off of Blogs, I have some bad news. It's going to get a lot worse if the people at eMarketer are right about where the Blogosphere is headed. Yesterday, eMarketer launched...

On the surface, the United States seems to be a hostile location for spam blogs. The DMCA makes it trivial for copyright holders to get their content removed from sites hosted in the U.S, anti-spam laws make things uncomfortable for email spammers, which often go hand in hand with Web spammers, and ...

One of the interesting side notes to the recent controversy over Shyftr was that Shyftr, as a service, not only scraped and displayed the full RSS feed, but that it also encouraged users to comment on the blog post at Shyftr itself, rather than visiting the original site. Some, including Eric Berlin...

Jamie Spencer is an attorney from Austin, TX who recently discovered that one of her blogs was being scraped heavily by spammers. However, unlike most victims of scraping, she knew exactly why her blog was being targeted heavily, she had recently read an article about the highest-paying AdSense keyw...

Apologies to my regular readers who haven’t been abusing my generousity, but I’ve been forced into turning off ‘dofollow‘ on comments. Too many users are trying to take advantage and it’s taking too much time each day to delete or edit their comments. If users still wan...