Comments on: Spotting Spam Blogs

By: paper_fax_machines

paper_fax_machines — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:07:47 +0000

I'll back again for sure, thanks for great article

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:21:33 +0000

No, Blogger nor Google in general makes it easy, that much is VERY certain. I agree there. There is a way to send a notice via email though, if you can create a PDF with your scanned signature, you can send it in that way. I do it all of the time and it works well. But it's not something they advertise and you really have to know where to look, in fact, the info isn't even on Google's site.

Drop me an email if you want more information, I don't feel comfortable publishing the email information right here but will gladly send it to you.

But yes, I agree that it is a disgrace but I have seen signs of improvement Let's hope they keep up.

Thanks for the praise of the site!

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:21:33 +0000

By: steve

steve — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:45:39 +0000

Certainly Blogger don’t make it easy to complain – their “help” page (not terribly helpful) insists on paper notification via fax or mail – email not accepted. Ironic that they aren’t interested in your ID when setting up a blogger account; only when trying to prevent you from protecting it.

It’s now become apparent that a series of themed blogs have stolen further content from my wife’s blog. Earlier today, we filed complaints with Adsense; if that doesn’t work we’ll fax a DMCA to blogger (which I guess is what you meant above – unless there’s an email option we’ve overlooked?)

Can I say what a disgrace blogger is?

More power to your elbow, Jonathan – your site has been a great help. Thanks.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:45:33 +0000

It depends on HOW it is reported. I have never head of a spam report providing quick results but a DMCA notice generally does. My advice, file a DMCA notice with them and watch the works come down, it may take a week, but it works more reliably than filing a spam report and then waiting for their automated bot to bring the site down after it confirms your findings…

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By: steve

steve — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:34:12 +0000

Do blogspot *ever* deal with blogs that are reported as spam/scraped? An article from my wife’s blogspot blog was copied – pics & all – onto another blogspot blog, replete with all the usual dodgy ads. It’s been reported, but six days on, it’s still there. I know you’ve written before about blogspot’s lack of interest in keeping their house in order – it’s disappointing that they seem to have improved not one iota since then.

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:35:32 +0000

Ramana, glad to have you back and even more glad you liked the article! Definitely keep me posted on what you think and if there is anything that I can do to improve.

Oh, and I don’t know if I’d call it quaint… Actually, yes I would…

By: rummuser

rummuser — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:27:29 +0000

Hi there Jonathan,
I am not a spammer! I am now a legitimate “novice blogger” as you so quaintly call!
This post has been very educative and I have found it useful. I have been visiting you blog regularly, but have not been able to make any useful comments for some time now. Now that I found a post, let me compliment you on a very well written one. I am now able to understand the content of your blogs!
In case my blog id throws, you, this Ramana Rajgopaul. Cheers.