caveat lector
Someone* recently directed my attention to Blogger's policy on spam blogs. Shorter version: do not want.
According to the explanation, spam blogs:
can be recognized by their irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site.So, I think, at least for the moment, I'm okay. Because, in my blog, the large number of links mostly point to different sites.
*edited to add: "Someone" was actually Cinnamon Gurl, whose blog (which is chock-full of beautiful writing and photos that make me green with envy) was unfairly and inexplicably tagged as a spam blog. As I mention in the comments, I wrote a complaint to Blogger on her behalf. We'll see if I get an answer.
15 comments:
I think that is too funny!
I always wondered what was the point of those nonsensical blogs.
I love the way you speak Latin to me!
oops. i'd better work on that repetitive part.
LOL
I think I've seen a few of those nonsensical blogs. They're very obnoxious looking.
Oh NO! I might qualify.
Oh wait okay like you, I might have a slight escape clause.
It might be the same sites but at least they are different.
LOL at you...too funny.
I seriously don't understand why my blog got caught in that category and none of my friends' blogs did. The only thing that I can think of is I post so many photos as links to flickr.
And it IS kinda funny, except that it also really stung, even if it was a machine making a mistake.
Is it mean for me to hope some good blogs like yours get caught so I can feel a little better about mine? Yes, but so be it... I'm mean. ;)
Wow, time to clean up my irrelevant and nonsensical text.
what if I have irrelevant repetitive nonsensical links?
cin If it would make you feel even a tiny bit better, I would be glad for them to tag my blog. Because it really is completely unfair and nonsensical.
I sent a nasty message to Blogger on your behalf saying that they need to fix their methods of determining which are spam blogs.
I was actually wondering myself if it could be your links to flickr. But then I thought that all of my pictures are linked from my photobucket account, so maybe that's not it.
This is the first I am seeing of this spam blogger business. Weird. Let us know if there is anything we can do.
Yeah, I'd be happy to write someone too -- especially since they clearly don't care nearly as much about the spam commenters.
Well, she's in good company because PostSecret was nailed for that and shut down as well one week.
And if the most popular blogger blog on the net can get mistaken for a spam blog, then we all are at risk, right? Or maybe blogger needs to have a human set of eyes doublecheck all of their flags so they don't get embarassed like this.
If they could only figure out a way to get rid of spam commenters.
Hmm. Uncool. Cinnamon Gurl's blog is very attractive.
Now I am wondering, some stranger left comment and link on my latest post, and when I clicked on it it was just some ad. When I clicked on her blogger link, supposedly to her blog, it was only a page that said "my blog". No post, no info. Yet, the profile views said over 5,000. Spam perhaps? In any case, ver odd and unsettling.
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