lfgoal - 7:15 pm on Mar 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

"I predict blog spamming will result in lower credibility given to blog sites as a whole from most major search engines' algos."

I predict you are wrong, at least as far as Google is concerned. Blogger Splogs are a problem but I doubt Google will throw the baby out with the bath water. And it wouldn't even be logical to do so for a couple of reasons. For one thing, there are thousands of valid blogs hosted by blogspot that offer unique, firsthand content. Secondly, of the blogspot blogs that are splogs, very few rank for anything.

The splog problem is analogous to the MFA website problem. And I think Google will simply continue to take the same approach as always: filter out the spam and include relevant content in the serps.

"They should call it SPAMSPOT instead"

And they should call 95 percent of the sites that use adsense the "spamsense noncontent network".

""Ultimately, it is advertisers' money that is funding the search spam industry, which is increasingly cluttering the Web with low-quality content and reducing Web users' productivity,"

No doubt. And though the article used orbitz as an example, most of this can probably be laid at the feet of adsense.