A new idea to fight spam blogs is catching some momentum. It initially started by Mark Cuban and took a turn when SomewhatFrank decided to put together a site for people to report blog spam.

How much is this going to help? I don’t know. Consider the amount of spam blogs on the net, even if several thousands will be reported it may make it impossible to monetize. I would also like to know where are these results going to go? On the other hand IceRocket’s proposal to eliminate free blog provider from it’s index is not the best idea either as some use these services legitimately.

It shouldn’t be overly complicated to create an algorithm that will eliminate such blogs based on wording (spam blogs tend to post similar information), time since last post (old blogs that haven’t been updated can be a source fr comment spam), etc. Bottom line, they can create such algo that can be even tougher on these sites, and if some legit blogs get excluded they can request reinclusion, same way search engines currently fight spam.

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