How to Report Spamming and Violating Blogs

February 20, 2008 – 9:42 pm by Dani Iswara

Updated from my old post about report spamming and violating blogs. This how to contain ‘feedback’ links of several blog providers, such as Blogger (BlogSpot), Wordpress, Friendster and Multiply. And also spam reporting addresses for some search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Blog spam, or “blam” for short, is spamming on weblogs. In 2003, this type of spam took advantage of the open nature of comments in the blogging software Movable Type by repeatedly placing comments to various blog posts that provided nothing more than a link to the spammer’s commercial web site. Similar attacks are often performed against wikis and guestbooks, both of which accept user contributions.

Spamdexing (a portmanteau of spamming and indexing) refers to the practice on the World Wide Web of modifying HTML pages to increase the chances of them being placed high on search engine relevancy lists. These sites use “black hat search engine optimization techniques” to unfairly increase their rank in search engines. Many modern search engines modified their search algorithms to try to exclude web pages utilizing spamdexing tactics (Spam - Wikipedia).

What kind of violation? It could be blogs that contain p0rn0graphy, hateful content, obscenity, steal your content, destructive viruses, malicious codes, violent content, copyright violation, cloaking page, etc.

If you find spamming and violating blogs, press the report / flag button (Blogspot.com) on the top of the navigation bar (Blogspot navbar) / admin panel (Wordpress.com). Alternatively, use these links to report spamming / violating blogs, fill their form or send them mail:

Search engines:

Share :
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • Google
  • Live
  • Technorati
  • YahooMyWeb
  • Furl
  • Ma.gnolia
  • NewsVine
  • StumbleUpon

Last updated: Thursday, May 22, 2008 at 1:35 pm

posted in Blog Tips, Internet
Subscribe Post / Comments | Trackback URL of this post
You are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) this blog post under the similar license (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported; CCA-NC-ND 3.0 Unported). Please put these link on your copy:
Taken from: How to Report Spamming and Violating Blogs by Dani Iswara (Dani Iswara .Net).

Possibly Related Post(s):

Maintained Posts :

Top
Previous: Medical Website Design for Healthcare Marketing
Next: Call for Papers SNATI 2008 Yogyakarta

2 Trackback(s)

  1. Apr 10, 2008: Masih Hangat di Blogosfir - Indonesia Physician Weblog
  2. May 9, 2008: Menanggapi Kesalahan Menulis Blog - Dani Iswara .Net - Indonesia Physician Weblog

Post a Comment

You may read again from the Top

  • Strict XHTML (semantic markup) tags allowed (see Site Help - Leaving Comment)
  • All tags must be properly closed
  • Comment contains some words (eg. URLs) will be held in moderation
  • Paragraphs and line breaks are automatically converted
  • Keep relevant. Inappropriate comments may be edited, moderated, or removed
  • To have image beside your comment, get Gravatar!

Top
Previous: Medical Website Design for Healthcare Marketing
Next: Call for Papers SNATI 2008 Yogyakarta

2008 | WordPress | XML | X/HTML | CSS | W3C-WAI WCAG | CCA-NC-ND | Dani Iswara .Net & Putu Vidyanti Indiraswari