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How out of touch am I that I don't know what a splog is, nor what Technorati was?
by bitwize 4y ago
How out of touch am I that I don't know what a splog is, nor what Technorati was?
- marginalia_nu 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_blog
- Apocryphon 4y agoI remember when Technorati was around all the time and still don't know what it was until this article.
- PaulHoule 4y agoA lot of people had that problem. The subtext of their marketing, like the fediverse today, was ‘move on folks, nothing to see here’ so far as normies were concerned.
- gradschoolfail 4y agoYou are not the rati they were looking for XD
- PaulHoule 4y agoThe splogs were synthetically generated and formed an inverted pyramid. They were full of links to other sites, most of which were ‘cover traffic’ to conceal that the point of the splogs was linking to my blogs. There were maybe 10 inner circle splogs that linked directly to my blogs, then 20 outer circle splogs that linked to the inner circle splogs. I could direct the lowest quality links in large numbers to the outer circle splogs and not be afraid that they’d discredit my blogs. The are numerous advantages of this approach, one of them is that you could get 1 link in a directory to your blog but 30 links to 30 splogs. People might say this is a short cut but no you have to do all the legitimate link building for the blogs plus a lot of illegitimate link building for the splogs, it is like anabolic steroids in that it helps somebody who is doing all the right stuff go even further. What’s really the best is if your competitors are doing the same and you find out where they get their cover traffic from and inject your own links so they wind up spamming for your benefit or spamming stuff so bad it gets them busted.
- umeshunni 4y agoI had completely forgotten about it, but it was a popular blog search tool in the mid-2000s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati Part of the early Web 2.0 crowd along with blogger, flickr, delicious etc.