Matt Cutts Spam
I'll admit it, I have a Google Blog Search RSS feed for "John Battelle." Come on, don't you?
Ok, anyway, what I've noticed is that at least 10-20 percent of the hits Google Blog search reports back to me are spam, usually very popular stories in which I have been mentioned that are republished automatically by long tail Adsense and affiliate scrapers. It's part of the web ecosystem, whatever.… » Full Story on John Battelle's Searchblog
Ok, anyway, what I've noticed is that at least 10-20 percent of the hits Google Blog search reports back to me are spam, usually very popular stories in which I have been mentioned that are republished automatically by long tail Adsense and affiliate scrapers. It's part of the web ecosystem, whatever.… » Full Story on John Battelle's Searchblog
