It doesn’t take long time of research to realize that the methods used for blog scams are actually repetitive.
The systems are more or less the same. Just that a product is just a slight improvement upon the predecessors. This is understandable, especially if you study what makes blog scams possible and what make them scams.
The [...]

The line that separates between a blog scam and legitimate blog model is often very thin.
In fact, some techniques used by blog scams take advantages of the benefits of blogging. The problem is, often they are used in ways that are destructive.
For example, “blog and ping” is a great tool to notify blog search engines [...]

Stevel Rubel of Micro Persuasion has a summary of the upcoming September issue of Wired. The article exposes significantly on spam blogs and the threat they pose to search engines and the blogosphere.
Charles C. Mann, the writer of the article, reveals the underworld of link farms and junk blogs that are designed to generate traffic [...]

Technologies come and go. There are countless of gadgets, applications and services which once appeared among us, but then sank again no where else to be found. Some are growing much slower but gaining their own market share.
Some technologies are here to stay. Others have to go.
Same thing applies to online marketing. In fact, you [...]

A new study at UMBC eBiquity Research Group at the University of Maryland shows that almost three out of four pings to blog servers are from spam blogs (splogs). Those source of spings constitute 50% of all claimed blogs. They claimed that their detection mechanism is close to 90% accurate.
Based on the interestingness of this [...]