The Great SpamBlog / Trademark Fight

[akagorilla]

I questioned Scott Johnson from Feedster at the December SES Show in Chicago about our fight against spam blogs. These webmasters are using RSStoBlog to publish feeds with our trademark names and products embedded in them to drive traffic to Google ads from other vendors. Some of these blogs have ranked within the first or second pages of the search engines, even further decreasing our profit margin.

Scott suggested sending an email to adsense-abuse@google.com and reporting the spam blogs and then emailing Feedster and Technorati with the same info.

I'm here to report that it is working, but it's a never-ending cycle.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? What have you done about it?

The Great SpamBlog / Trademark Fight (http://gregwhoffman.blogspot.com/2006/02/great-spamblog-trademark-fight.html)

[Mikkel deMib Svendsen]

There is really not much news about it - whenever simple publishing is around, simple crap will be produced on it. The problem is, that Blogs have for some obscure reason got the "branding" of being all good - it's not. It's just simple CMS'ing and all history shows that such will allways end up with a very high noise to signal ratio.

When search engines gets more used to this, and adapt, blogs just won't rank as well as they might today ... back to "normal" again :)

[Carlos Chacón]

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I'm here to report that it is working, but it's a never-ending cycle.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? What have you done about it?

The Great SpamBlog / Trademark Fight (http://gregwhoffman.blogspot.com/2006/02/great-spamblog-trademark-fight.html)

I’m agreeing with this. SPAM blogs has been a non stop problem since long time ago. I’ve post some thread http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=5957 if you want to check the all discussion.

[akagorilla]

Business Week Online (http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2006/02/spam_blogging_a.html) picked up on my spamblog problems.

[akagorilla]

I received my first Google Feedback message:

:mad:

Thank you for your note. Google AdSense is a program for web publishers who want to display advertising on web pages they control. By placing AdSense code on their web pages, the publisher can display text-based Google ads that are relevant to the content readers see on the pages. Publishers, not Google, control what pages have ads and the content of those pages.

Google is a provider of information, not a mediator. We serve ads targeted to certain web pages, but we don't control the content of these pages. For these kinds of questions or comments, it is best to directly address the webmaster of the page in question.

Regards,
The Google AdSense Team