Google’s evil defence of sploggers (spam bloggers)

Posted on December 1st, 2007 by Richard Catto 1,522 views

This is becoming a big problem now.

You actually take the trouble to write original content and publish it on your blog, and then a bunch of sploggers come along and scrape your blog content and display GOOGLE ADVERTS next to the scraped content, and receive MONEY from GOOGLE for revenue derived from YOUR CONTENT.

Some bloggers have actually taken the trouble to complain to Google about this by clicking on the report violation link of the GOOGLE ADSENSE advert.

In response, Google sends the complainant a standard email telling the person that they need to make a sworn statement in writing and then either snail mail or fax the statement to Google. Google also cites the American DMCA legislation in its standard reply.

I don’t think Google appreciates the problem. It’s incredibly EASY to become a splogger. And if one splog gets shut down, another one can be created in a heartbeat.

So having to go to a whole lot of trouble to get a splog shut down and its adsense account terminated is enabling them to continue.

It must be easy to shut down a splogger. It must be easy to get their Google Adsense account terminated. The sploggers can then be blacklisted from opening another adsense account, making it DIFFICULT for them to earn money off OUR hard labour.

What do we need to do to convince Google to take this issue seriously and get serious about combating sploggers?

Perhaps a nude sit in on their business premises?

Tags: adsense, Google, sploggers
Filed under Google, Splogs |

8 Responses to “Google’s evil defence of sploggers (spam bloggers)”

1. Psychotic Cow Says:
   December 1st, 2007 at 08:33

   What do they care hey, it’s not hurting them and they’re getting the revenue.
   Nude sit in yeah!

2. Ronnie Says:
   December 1st, 2007 at 09:27

   Actually Adsense Ads don’t last very long on splogs. I had a go at running a splog (scrapped Weblogs.com RSS feed) and had 3 blocks of Adsense Ads on them. After about 3 weeks Google disabled Adsense ads on that site (they said it was a Made-For-Adsense site, which is against their TOS). They didn’t disable my adsense account, just stopped serving ads to my splogs.

   But these days the search engines are getting pretty good at filtering out the splogs.

3. Richard Catto Says:
   December 1st, 2007 at 17:17

   I think South Africa needs more nude sit ins, don’t you think Ms. Cow?
   

4. Richard Catto Says:
   December 1st, 2007 at 17:31

   Ronnie, as a self-confessed splogger, I think you should be boiled in oil.

   And then eaten, whilst crunchy.
   

5. Psychotic Cow Says:
   December 1st, 2007 at 23:18

   We really do hey, we honestly do not have enough of that here. Imagine if cows like me did nude sit ins, anyone would cave in.

6. SheBee Says:
   December 2nd, 2007 at 19:01

   I like biscuits.

    

7. Richard Catto Says:
   December 2nd, 2007 at 19:11

   *kisses the Shebes*

   Well of course you do!

   Do you like the chocolate ones wrapped in pink tinzel paper?

   Those are my fav, but I’ll let you have one.

8. sarah Says:
   December 3rd, 2007 at 09:17

   It is a shame, but hopefully they aren’t getting any extra traffic that you should be getting i.e. taking any of your search engine rankings

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