It was only a few weeks ago when I reported on the difficulty I had trying to find something in a past blog due to a number of 'spam blogs' - blogs specially designed to return results and get people to click on links. I postulated at the time that is was probably due to people trying to increase page rank and get clicks to earn referrals. <\/p>\n
Apparently these are compararitvely new, and obviously designed to cash in on the explosion of people reading feeds. <\/p>\n
The term for these? Splogs.<\/p>\n
The problem is that the content on these splogs interferes with all the real content on the Internet and if I can find it on simple searches like 'linux terminal server schools' others are going to find splogs on other seemingly innocuous search terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was only a few weeks ago when I reported on the difficulty I had trying to find something in a past blog due to a number of ‘spam blogs’ – blogs specially designed to return results and get people to click on links. I postulated at the time that is was probably due to people trying to increase page rank and get clicks to earn referrals. <\/p>\n
Apparently these are compararitvely new, and obviously designed to cash in on the explosion of people reading feeds. <\/p>\n
The term for these? Splogs.<\/p>\n
The problem is that the content on these splogs interferes with all the real content on the Internet and if I can find it on simple searches like ‘linux terminal server schools’ others are going to find splogs on other seemingly innocuous search terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}