Splog Reporting
For those following the blogspot/blogger splog abuse issue, one of the ways to report the blog as a splog is by selecting the FLAG option in the upper right corner of the blog.
Sploggers have gotten smarter and they will often put up a corner banner to hide the flag option or worse: sneaky javascript that redirects any click on the entire website to a website of their choice…which prevents us from FLAGGING the blog as a splog.
We’re not going to take this any more and here’s how to beat the splogger at their own game:
When you find a blogspot.com blog that has abused your content and does not allow itself to be flagged as a splog, do this:
1) Using the Microsoft Internet explorer browser, load the splog and wait for the page to fully load.
2) Type this in the address/URL bar and hit enter:
javascript:toggleFlag()
That will force the blog to be flagged as a splog, further alerting Google (the owner of blogspot) that it’s a splog and should be removed.
This is a major splog busting solution, provided that the blogspot team does something with the flagged blogs that were reported for being splogs.
Chris,
What about sites that obtain our articles but do not provide an active link per the TOS? Would I report them to google the same way? Here’s an example
http://www.men.com/yourlife/homeimp/20
Every article on their site does NOT include active links back to author’s site.
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