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Blogger Witch Hunt
It seems there’s a new kinda sheriff in town. A fully automated spam sheriff or “spam bot” that snoops around Blogger looking for possible spam blogs or “splogs” for short. A splog is nothing more than a blog that has tons of links dumped into it by unscrupulous website owners to raise their web sites standings in the search engines.
When the spam bot finds one that it “thinks” is a link farm splog it then “locks” the blog down and prevents any new posts from being made and in some cases, deletes the entire blog! In spite of tons of protests in the official Blogger forums it seems to be continuing. A lucky few were able to get their blogs reinstated after a review but others were deleted entirely with no notification!
Check out the official Blogger forums here.
Talk about this in the forum…
