Help Me Blog

Looks like famous food blogger Julie Powell talked a little too much about other recipe blogs out there and what she “really thought about them”…

Great blog post by B.L Ochman´s on whatsnextblog. Check it out. Good read.

Negative blogging can be devastating for any company. A single blog post can be circulated around the Blogosphere in hours. For corporations that have spent millions of dollars buiding their brands (think of Coke, Nike, General Motors) over the years, negative blog buzz can potentially severely damage a corporate image in a very short period of time. One post..

Great post by George Simpson on iMedia Connection about how weary corporations still are of blogging and what the consequences can be.

Tessa Wegert of Clickz.com writes about blogs..

“They connect potential customers with products and brands. They’re a breeding ground for consumer feedback and a market research source. From a marketer’s perspective, blogs pretty much have it all.

Now, if only we could infiltrate them.”

BlogExplosion saw the potential problem of splogs or “keyword blogs” the first day we opened the site. Splogs are mass-produced fake blogs designed to attract the attention of search engines by clustering high-paying advertising keywords on their blogs. Search engines like Technorati and IceRocket are having a hard time of separating the good blogs from the bad blogs where these splogs are thriving in blog search engine results because of the way keywords are optimized. Something has to change…

That was the reason since day one we practiced the policy of manually approving each blog before it is listed on BlogExplosion. Without manual approvals the quality level would diminish to the point where we would lose the majority of our good members. We spend hours a day approving incoming blogs (100-300 per day) but that is the only way to maintain a quality base of blogs on BE.

On that note we deny 30-45% of new blogs added to BlogExplosion each day largely due to blog spammers trying to increase traffic to these fake blogs in search for clicks. Splog accounts are automatically deleted without notice. We really need blog hosts like BlogSpot to help do their part as we do our part to help keep the progression of blogging a positive one.

Nobody has been more vocal specifically about Blogspot “splogs” than Mark Cuban (owner of the NBA Mavericks and behind IceRocket.com) in his post Get Your Blogspot Sh$t Together Google.

On CNET News they refer to splogs as “spam re-invented”

The scourge of e-mail–spam–has reinvented itself for the world of blogs, in a phenomenon experts have dubbed “splog.” And Google is in the hot seat.

.. and of course there is a new search engine for splogs called Splogspot launched by our friend Kailash over at Pingoat (our Ping Partner on BlogExplosion)… Search Engine Journal has a good article about Splogspot here.

Looks like this blog helpmeblog.com is on their list. Better notify someone there and get that cleared up