How big a problem is spam for your site ? If you run a blog which doesn’t receive too much traffic, you would probably not have to worry too much. Reasonable traffic and pagerank, and the spam will flow in. Viagra, pharmacy, adult, video links….the list can go on and on, but to sum it up in a nutshell, sites which have absolutely nothing to do with the content of your site. All they want is a bit of traffic, and some PR to be leaked from your site. Some people do delete spam religiously, but there are the odd ones which creep in through the system. And considering that most of the work is done by bots and not humans, that success percentage is perfectly acceptable to spammers.
August 31, 2007
A fundamental law of Blogging
There are millions of blogs on the internet today, and their number will only increase in the coming future. From 1997, when John Berger started the first official blog, to 2007, where even children maintain their own blog, we have come a long way. And there is a whole side industry that has developed over the last decade thanks to blogging.