Splog List Update

It's been over a month since my last post and it appears Google has done a pretty good job at deleting splogs. Of course fighting splog is always a moving target since spammers are always generating more splogs daily. Here is an updated list of splogs totaling just over 154,000. Group 1 though 63 are just updates to previously published list and group 64 through 137 are newly added splogs I'm tracking. I've purged all the deleted splogs from the list so almost all of them should be live splogs as of now.

0001_20061214.txt - 4955 splogs
0003_20061214.txt - 6533 splogs
0004_20061214.txt - 421 splogs
0005_20061214.txt - 4121 splogs
0006_20061214.txt - 531 splogs
0007_20061214.txt - 27362 splogs
0009_20061214.txt - 3086 splogs
0010_20061214.txt - 887 splogs
0011_20061214.txt - 305 splogs
0012_20061214.txt - 2993 splogs
0013_20061214.txt - 5 splogs
0014_20061214.txt - 386 splogs
0015_20061214.txt - 266 splogs
0016_20061214.txt - 910 splogs
0017_20061214.txt - 1428 splogs
0018_20061214.txt - 726 splogs
0019_20061214.txt - 715 splogs
0020_20061214.txt - 211 splogs
0021_20061214.txt - 548 splogs
0022_20061214.txt - 321 splogs
0023_20061214.txt - 428 splogs
0024_20061214.txt - 161 splogs
0025_20061214.txt - 226 splogs
0026_20061214.txt - 1584 splogs
0027_20061214.txt - 2859 splogs
0028_20061214.txt - 3681 splogs
0029_20061214.txt - 539 splogs
0030_20061214.txt - 164 splogs
0031_20061214.txt - 13692 splogs
0032_20061214.txt - 82 splogs
0033_20061214.txt - 2891 splogs
0034_20061214.txt - 29 splogs
0035_20061214.txt - 75 splogs
0036_20061214.txt - 820 splogs
0037_20061214.txt - 270 splogs
0040_20061214.txt - 9 splogs
0041_20061214.txt - 1222 splogs
0042_20061214.txt - 12 splogs
0043_20061214.txt - 98 splogs
0044_20061214.txt - 191 splogs
0045_20061214.txt - 842 splogs
0046_20061214.txt - 15 splogs
0047_20061214.txt - 541 splogs
0048_20061214.txt - 54 splogs
0049_20061214.txt - 3 splogs
0050_20061214.txt - 40 splogs
0051_20061214.txt - 424 splogs
0052_20061214.txt - 120 splogs
0053_20061214.txt - 3 splogs
0054_20061214.txt - 65 splogs
0055_20061214.txt - 516 splogs
0056_20061214.txt - 1203 splogs
0057_20061214.txt - 3 splogs
0058_20061214.txt - 1 splogs
0059_20061214.txt - 9 splogs
0060_20061214.txt - 116 splogs
0061_20061214.txt - 32 splogs
0062_20061214.txt - 236 splogs
0063_20061214.txt - 193 splogs
0064_20061214.txt - 557 splogs
0065_20061214.txt - 2382 splogs
0066_20061214.txt - 741 splogs
0067_20061214.txt - 528 splogs
0068_20061214.txt - 469 splogs
0069_20061214.txt - 480 splogs
0070_20061214.txt - 669 splogs
0071_20061214.txt - 3244 splogs
0072_20061214.txt - 184 splogs
0073_20061214.txt - 3288 splogs
0074_20061214.txt - 260 splogs
0075_20061214.txt - 121 splogs
0076_20061214.txt - 1800 splogs
0077_20061214.txt - 327 splogs
0078_20061214.txt - 100 splogs
0079_20061214.txt - 379 splogs
0080_20061214.txt - 351 splogs
0081_20061214.txt - 276 splogs
0082_20061214.txt - 732 splogs
0083_20061214.txt - 478 splogs
0084_20061214.txt - 199 splogs
0085_20061214.txt - 187 splogs
0086_20061214.txt - 226 splogs
0087_20061214.txt - 613 splogs
0088_20061214.txt - 379 splogs
0089_20061214.txt - 190 splogs
0090_20061214.txt - 924 splogs
0091_20061214.txt - 156 splogs
0092_20061214.txt - 1299 splogs
0093_20061214.txt - 1091 splogs
0094_20061214.txt - 474 splogs
0095_20061214.txt - 429 splogs
0096_20061214.txt - 154 splogs
0097_20061214.txt - 207 splogs
0098_20061214.txt - 540 splogs
0099_20061214.txt - 100 splogs
0100_20061214.txt - 228 splogs
0101_20061214.txt - 1152 splogs
0102_20061214.txt - 744 splogs
0103_20061214.txt - 1103 splogs
0104_20061214.txt - 1416 splogs
0105_20061214.txt - 342 splogs
0106_20061214.txt - 375 splogs
0107_20061214.txt - 238 splogs
0108_20061214.txt - 180 splogs
0109_20061214.txt - 116 splogs
0110_20061214.txt - 248 splogs
0111_20061214.txt - 527 splogs
0112_20061214.txt - 230 splogs
0113_20061214.txt - 346 splogs
0114_20061214.txt - 880 splogs
0115_20061214.txt - 192 splogs
0116_20061214.txt - 265 splogs
0117_20061214.txt - 491 splogs
0118_20061214.txt - 330 splogs
0119_20061214.txt - 757 splogs
0120_20061214.txt - 233 splogs
0121_20061214.txt - 386 splogs
0122_20061214.txt - 401 splogs
0123_20061214.txt - 704 splogs
0124_20061214.txt - 126 splogs
0125_20061214.txt - 120 splogs
0126_20061214.txt - 171 splogs
0127_20061214.txt - 553 splogs
0128_20061214.txt - 655 splogs
0129_20061214.txt - 869 splogs
0130_20061214.txt - 260 splogs
0131_20061214.txt - 150 splogs
0132_20061214.txt - 342 splogs
0133_20061214.txt - 704 splogs
0134_20061214.txt - 183 splogs
0135_20061214.txt - 192 splogs
0136_20061214.txt - 27647 splogs
0137_20061214.txt - 2557 splogs

Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20061214.tar.gz

More Splogs

I've updated and added more splogs to my previous list of splogs. Google is indeed deleting some splogs so I will keep reporting them. The total count from this batch is over 227,000 live splogs. Group 2 has been merged into 7 since there were lot of dupes in the list. I've also changed the file name convention and dropped the .blogspot.com domain name from the file itself. I think the patterns in splog host names are easier to see without the domain name.

0001_20061110.txt - 20860 splogs
0003_20061110.txt - 7791 splogs
0004_20061110.txt - 1182 splogs
0005_20061110.txt - 19035 splogs
0006_20061110.txt - 5330 splogs
0007_20061110.txt - 82472 splogs
0009_20061110.txt - 14542 splogs
0010_20061110.txt - 911 splogs
0011_20061110.txt - 1018 splogs
0012_20061110.txt - 2120 splogs
0013_20061110.txt - 468 splogs
0014_20061110.txt - 716 splogs
0015_20061110.txt - 364 splogs
0016_20061110.txt - 1114 splogs
0017_20061110.txt - 2865 splogs
0018_20061110.txt - 1110 splogs
0019_20061110.txt - 876 splogs
0020_20061110.txt - 1065 splogs
0021_20061110.txt - 523 splogs
0022_20061110.txt - 1327 splogs
0023_20061110.txt - 485 splogs
0024_20061110.txt - 594 splogs
0025_20061110.txt - 1059 splogs
0026_20061110.txt - 9608 splogs
0027_20061110.txt - 12333 splogs
0028_20061110.txt - 1561 splogs
0029_20061110.txt - 528 splogs
0030_20061110.txt - 139 splogs
0031_20061110.txt - 2550 splogs
0032_20061110.txt - 693 splogs
0033_20061110.txt - 476 splogs
0034_20061110.txt - 65 splogs
0035_20061110.txt - 75 splogs
0036_20061110.txt - 422 splogs
0037_20061110.txt - 413 splogs
0038_20061110.txt - 15852 splogs
0039_20061110.txt - 365 splogs
0040_20061110.txt - 494 splogs
0041_20061110.txt - 686 splogs
0042_20061110.txt - 951 splogs
0043_20061110.txt - 107 splogs
0044_20061110.txt - 271 splogs
0045_20061110.txt - 2449 splogs
0046_20061110.txt - 2517 splogs
0047_20061110.txt - 559 splogs
0048_20061110.txt - 54 splogs
0049_20061110.txt - 116 splogs
0050_20061110.txt - 85 splogs
0051_20061110.txt - 373 splogs
0052_20061110.txt - 120 splogs
0053_20061110.txt - 2326 splogs
0054_20061110.txt - 65 splogs
0055_20061110.txt - 1515 splogs
0056_20061110.txt - 316 splogs
0057_20061110.txt - 415 splogs
0058_20061110.txt - 190 splogs
0059_20061110.txt - 120 splogs
0060_20061110.txt - 196 splogs
0061_20061110.txt - 84 splogs
0062_20061110.txt - 523 splogs
0063_20061110.txt - 173 splogs

Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20061110.tar.gz

Big Batch of Splogs

Here is a big batch of splogs I've managed to extract using some new code I've been working on. Combined total splog count is over 150,000. Some of these splogs are quite trickly. Many of them are cloaked meaning they appear to be 404 dead blog page but underneath it is a link farm in attempt to jack up Google search engine rankings. I'm also seeing a rise in redirected splogs and I'm working on some code to identify those in mass number.

I see that Google has been deleting quite a large number of splogs but even then they are on average about 20% effective. What that means is if a single spammer creates 1000 splogs, Google will eventually delete at most about 200 of them leaving 800 alone. Obvously this is rather poor percentage and hopefully my efforts will bump up that figure close to 90% and above.

20061030_1.txt - 19401 splogs
20061030_2.txt - 4332 splogs
20061030_3.txt - 8936 splogs
20061030_4.txt - 8794 splogs
20061030_5.txt - 18912 splogs
20061030_6.txt - 5158 splogs
20061030_7.txt - 70755 splogs
20061030_8.txt - 1182 splogs
20061030_9.txt - 11410 splogs
20061030_10.txt - 968 splogs
20061030_11.txt - 1584 splogs

Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20061030.tar.gz

Visualizing Splogs

I decided to have some fun with GD library and generate something visual representation to gauge daily splog activities. Even though the images below look like some corrupted image file but it's really a graph of daily splog activity. Every pixel represents a blog ping during that day. Blogs are sorted alphabetically from top left to bottom right. The background black pixel represents fairly normal blog. Red pixel represents a potential splog. The brighter the red, more likely it's a splog. Horizontal streaks represent a block of splogs generated by one spammer. White pixels are blogs that show excessive characteristics of splogs far beyond bright red. Of course this is just a visual representation of just one algorithm I'm working on.


Sunday, Oct. 15, 2006


Saturday, Oct. 14, 2006


Friday, Oct. 13, 2006


Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006


Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2006



I can see that Friday was relatively light day compared to Saturday. On Friday, I see exceptionally long red streaks which means one spammer just went all out that day. Also I see that Thursday's splogs were much more scattered than other days. The sheer amount of data is just way too much to make sense out of by just looking at pages of numbers so this sort of visualization is really only way to do it effectively.

AdSense Spammers #304 through #351

Here are some AdSense spammers I found recently. It's been a slow going for a while but I expect that to change soon. I'm finally caught up with some data collection efforts I've been working on which means I can start testing some code against it.

#304 - 20061013_pub-0086569112426277.txt - 64 splogs
#305 - 20061013_pub-0374718219910878.txt - 188 splogs
#306 - 20061013_pub-0491670909572501.txt - 52 splogs
#307 - 20061013_pub-0826479338578281.txt - 141 splogs
#308 - 20061013_pub-1027226234026401.txt - 320 splogs
#309 - 20061013_pub-1235184352456025.txt - 42 splogs
#310 - 20061013_pub-1417869016985498.txt - 45 splogs
#311 - 20061013_pub-1540371791985906.txt - 48 splogs
#312 - 20061013_pub-1623768256260872.txt - 51 splogs
#313 - 20061013_pub-2179102579615022.txt - 48 splogs
#314 - 20061013_pub-3579364374947771.txt - 49 splogs
#315 - 20061013_pub-3956252550794831.txt - 113 splogs
#316 - 20061013_pub-4202015514897439.txt - 47 splogs
#317 - 20061013_pub-4295825832277380.txt - 53 splogs
#318 - 20061013_pub-4377593677584626.txt - 75 splogs
#319 - 20061013_pub-4629783411726898.txt - 63 splogs
#320 - 20061013_pub-4713763737975972.txt - 51 splogs
#321 - 20061013_pub-4736888333359447.txt - 46 splogs
#322 - 20061013_pub-5547795822349903.txt - 54 splogs
#323 - 20061013_pub-5951616262328939.txt - 164 splogs
#324 - 20061013_pub-6059581191391719.txt - 43 splogs
#325 - 20061013_pub-6199069860145127.txt - 226 splogs
#326 - 20061013_pub-6397672854399843.txt - 93 splogs
#327 - 20061013_pub-6665656872345453.txt - 51 splogs
#328 - 20061013_pub-6807512809326601.txt - 54 splogs
#329 - 20061013_pub-7052194275931465.txt - 58 splogs
#330 - 20061013_pub-7181340478359149.txt - 45 splogs
#331 - 20061013_pub-7296641527999074.txt - 59 splogs
#332 - 20061013_pub-7387889257879318.txt - 48 splogs
#333 - 20061013_pub-7438526762148519.txt - 51 splogs
#334 - 20061013_pub-7718058126221187.txt - 56 splogs
#335 - 20061013_pub-7736561109795979.txt - 50 splogs
#336 - 20061013_pub-7817704833552130.txt - 50 splogs
#337 - 20061013_pub-5813722382236767.txt - 34 splogs
#338 - 20061013_pub-8170626305881347.txt - 65 splogs
#339 - 20061013_pub-8350191921163884.txt - 49 splogs
#340 - 20061013_pub-9644089385489523.txt - 35 splogs
#341 - 20061013_pub-8899510804032437.txt - 48 splogs
#342 - 20061013_pub-1834658899198017.txt - 61 splogs
#343 - 20061013_pub-9204054190522966.txt - 48 splogs
#344 - 20061013_pub-9805358228556659.txt - 42 splogs
#345 - 20061013_pub-4700850531117777.txt - 75 splogs
#346 - 20061013_pub-7041538720244066.txt - 38 splogs
#347 - 20061013_pub-9046673571027200.txt - 60 splogs
#348 - 20061013_pub-3054181973973346.txt - 47 splogs
#349 - 20061013_pub-2145030168387916.txt - 38 splogs
#350 - 20061013_pub-4311428648076373.txt - 37 splogs
#351 - 20061013_pub-9483962462431328.txt - 58 splogs

Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20061013.tar.gz

AdSense Spammers #268 through #303

It looks like I've been once again away too long. Actually I've been quite busy behind the scenes collecting more data and writing code. It's still not ready yet but here are some more AdSense spammers I found just recently. I know I need to catch up on some emails and such but I'm going to spend a day or two trying to move some sickly bits off of a yet another dying server. As Murphy's law states this sort of thing tend to happen at the worst possible time.

#268 - 20060925_pub-6948100846706855.txt - 54 splogs
#269 - 20060925_pub-4941289586574021.txt - 54 splogs
#270 - 20060925_pub-4185169943035922.txt - 46 splogs
#271 - 20060925_pub-1857800488123340.txt - 39 splogs
#272 - 20060925_pub-6952339822505372.txt - 13 splogs
#273 - 20060925_pub-1366678634645996.txt - 46 splogs
#274 - 20060925_pub-7799260573255768.txt - 53 splogs
#275 - 20060925_pub-8072664093228754.txt - 49 splogs
#276 - 20060925_pub-9393149440416735.txt - 16 splogs
#277 - 20060925_pub-4251162604060447.txt - 42 splogs
#278 - 20060925_pub-4251162604060447.txt - 42 splogs
#279 - 20060925_pub-0312695231262484.txt - 32 splogs
#280 - 20060925_pub-8860674073280952.txt - 48 splogs
#281 - 20060925_pub-2203994020125324.txt - 24 splogs
#282 - 20060925_pub-5062379956310625.txt - 87 splogs
#283 - 20060925_pub-3502578845740843.txt - 38 splogs
#284 - 20060925_pub-8799458447217719.txt - 82 splogs
#285 - 20060925_pub-2008674599455026.txt - 46 splogs
#286 - 20060925_pub-2091812765986904.txt - 84 splogs
#287 - 20060925_pub-0812458323009305.txt - 57 splogs
#288 - 20060925_pub-5811037484628518.txt - 51 splogs
#289 - 20060925_pub-0566950438132316.txt - 46 splogs
#290 - 20060925_pub-1164727388825238.txt - 62 splogs
#291 - 20060925_pub-3815301557296942.txt - 36 splogs
#292 - 20060925_pub-9251231417178797.txt - 47 splogs
#293 - 20060925_pub-8967226274783730.txt - 52 splogs
#294 - 20060925_pub-7081751427004532.txt - 47 splogs
#295 - 20060925_pub-7728961798233804.txt - 19 splogs
#296 - 20060925_pub-6184728661710759.txt - 55 splogs
#297 - 20060925_pub-1188408206112264.txt - 482 splogs
#298 - 20060925_pub-7959786117867960.txt - 44 splogs
#299 - 20060925_pub-9786381911450419.txt - 543 splogs
#300 - 20060925_pub-7924411315179119.txt - 779 splogs
#301 - 20060925_pub-2502844029054875.txt - 108 splogs
#302 - 20060925_pub-5353552627777997.txt - 47 splogs
#303 - 20060925_pub-0329042866782785.txt - 239 splogs

Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20060925.tar.gz

AdSense Spammers #137 through #267

I've gone nuts and decided to dump a boatload of AdSense spammers.

#137 - 20060827_pub-8401504626163973.txt - 648 splogs
#138 - 20060827_pub-9451385869865469.txt - 221 splogs
#139 - 20060827_pub-6256747502007111.txt - 126 splogs
#140 - 20060827_pub-1898734344064563.txt - 86 splogs
#141 - 20060827_pub-9215731796803809.txt - 40 splogs
#142 - 20060827_pub-8889298734608217.txt - 572 splogs
#143 - 20060827_pub-1575222373335108.txt - 55 splogs
#144 - 20060827_pub-1559124685971537.txt - 119 splogs
#145 - 20060827_pub-7806010699460256.txt - 63 splogs
#146 - 20060827_pub-5798236426339725.txt - 83 splogs
#147 - 20060827_pub-5252974071130290.txt - 718 splogs
#148 - 20060827_pub-0128990374884812.txt - 25 splogs
#149 - 20060827_pub-5508728215406666.txt - 38 splogs
#150 - 20060827_pub-2337043175384134.txt - 56 splogs
#151 - 20060827_pub-7586744179001320.txt - 63 splogs
#152 - 20060827_pub-5322558457925471.txt - 262 splogs
#153 - 20060827_pub-5839839041056338.txt - 23 splogs
#154 - 20060827_pub-1415597704780333.txt - 43 splogs
#155 - 20060827_pub-3139007915117454.txt - 90 splogs
#156 - 20060827_pub-9900923396253418.txt - 30 splogs
#157 - 20060827_pub-9376902816194434.txt - 701 splogs
#158 - 20060827_pub-7274250765154242.txt - 46 splogs
#159 - 20060827_pub-4402930304202307.txt - 30 splogs
#160 - 20060827_pub-8669304589263975.txt - 42 splogs
#161 - 20060827_pub-6008725607877619.txt - 38 splogs
#162 - 20060827_pub-5914953041781371.txt - 32 splogs
#163 - 20060827_pub-3972138545135452.txt - 30 splogs
#164 - 20060827_pub-7829626692726610.txt - 38 splogs
#165 - 20060827_pub-7026515146280253.txt - 54 splogs
#166 - 20060827_pub-9317641369331656.txt - 20 splogs
#167 - 20060827_pub-1494731341567292.txt - 183 splogs
#168 - 20060827_pub-9736742737164931.txt - 77 splogs
#169 - 20060827_pub-8061101523622734.txt - 150 splogs
#170 - 20060827_pub-8125069262863221.txt - 45 splogs
#171 - 20060827_pub-5521693063234236.txt - 30 splogs
#172 - 20060827_pub-5068414875074952.txt - 27 splogs
#173 - 20060827_pub-1627767432104214.txt - 452 splogs
#174 - 20060827_pub-4567494141567884.txt - 156 splogs
#175 - 20060827_pub-1554759897718149.txt - 143 splogs
#176 - 20060827_pub-0448269425656002.txt - 98 splogs
#177 - 20060827_pub-4416264346440456.txt - 65 splogs
#178 - 20060827_pub-1799090148731355.txt - 100 splogs
#179 - 20060827_pub-0503798123586440.txt - 30 splogs
#180 - 20060827_pub-9980237979665406.txt - 84 splogs
#181 - 20060827_pub-8241445094392279.txt - 174 splogs
#182 - 20060827_pub-4858577062364627.txt - 124 splogs
#183 - 20060827_pub-8397235499025613.txt - 28 splogs
#184 - 20060827_pub-6395665942817718.txt - 405 splogs
#185 - 20060827_pub-0402599852857394.txt - 44 splogs
#186 - 20060827_pub-7964895764316601.txt - 84 splogs
#187 - 20060827_pub-0878245849067492.txt - 1414 splogs
#188 - 20060827_pub-4598340390974781.txt - 102 splogs
#189 - 20060827_pub-3783657627835359.txt - 96 splogs
#190 - 20060827_pub-5826612736468560.txt - 112 splogs
#191 - 20060827_pub-1747313249851250.txt - 68 splogs
#192 - 20060827_pub-6833617605511620.txt - 49 splogs
#193 - 20060827_pub-0581136059310178.txt - 124 splogs
#194 - 20060827_pub-1361325227325992.txt - 64 splogs
#195 - 20060827_pub-9382189924189740.txt - 63 splogs
#196 - 20060827_pub-0793456642203630.txt - 67 splogs
#197 - 20060827_pub-4953640978632583.txt - 78 splogs
#198 - 20060827_pub-7564582400193175.txt - 77 splogs
#199 - 20060827_pub-8825942690921935.txt - 71 splogs
#200 - 20060827_pub-8997946473776199.txt - 32 splogs
#201 - 20060827_pub-7841687853135830.txt - 1089 splogs
#202 - 20060827_pub-3691511137877196.txt - 110 splogs
#203 - 20060827_pub-4636828984433831.txt - 108 splogs
#204 - 20060827_pub-0868663924528858.txt - 77 splogs
#205 - 20060827_pub-4989075958265854.txt - 221 splogs
#206 - 20060827_pub-9359666885960343.txt - 90 splogs
#207 - 20060827_pub-7826770146639561.txt - 105 splogs
#208 - 20060827_pub-6854926974404552.txt - 64 splogs
#209 - 20060827_pub-7086695109148775.txt - 67 splogs
#210 - 20060827_pub-5719092845706793.txt - 70 splogs
#211 - 20060827_pub-2606037219793084.txt - 19 splogs
#212 - 20060827_pub-5058048715616131.txt - 188 splogs
#213 - 20060827_pub-5790261060961101.txt - 115 splogs
#214 - 20060827_pub-0124454109001036.txt - 149 splogs
#215 - 20060827_pub-1379315801959297.txt - 56 splogs
#216 - 20060827_pub-1299109373504793.txt - 64 splogs
#217 - 20060827_pub-9956049541041768.txt - 564 splogs
#218 - 20060827_pub-5324932945949020.txt - 111 splogs
#219 - 20060827_pub-1309368089360464.txt - 92 splogs
#220 - 20060827_pub-4161425079935531.txt - 237 splogs
#221 - 20060827_pub-9864119487243598.txt - 351 splogs
#222 - 20060827_pub-1975591678985901.txt - 35 splogs
#223 - 20060827_pub-0764361030446280.txt - 406 splogs
#224 - 20060827_pub-1249284335131869.txt - 173 splogs
#225 - 20060827_pub-1717395164389483.txt - 58 splogs
#226 - 20060827_pub-3971634554052033.txt - 29 splogs
#227 - 20060827_pub-0221152482997619.txt - 234 splogs
#228 - 20060827_pub-3249438720321919.txt - 358 splogs
#229 - 20060827_pub-6050179614137455.txt - 95 splogs
#230 - 20060827_pub-7978779882237100.txt - 368 splogs
#231 - 20060827_pub-8041138647943208.txt - 140 splogs
#232 - 20060827_pub-6050179614137456.txt - 94 splogs
#233 - 20060827_pub-2018252690643837.txt - 52 splogs
#234 - 20060827_pub-0044562006902530.txt - 97 splogs
#235 - 20060827_pub-1146277511562050.txt - 76 splogs
#236 - 20060827_pub-3365841375170905.txt - 10 splogs
#237 - 20060827_pub-7078719309267607.txt - 460 splogs
#238 - 20060827_pub-8187417823343537.txt - 126 splogs
#239 - 20060827_pub-0482112446881685.txt - 164 splogs
#240 - 20060827_pub-3309666630514399.txt - 3240 splogs
#241 - 20060827_pub-8183858769079113.txt - 73 splogs
#242 - 20060827_pub-7969941753345583.txt - 60 splogs
#243 - 20060827_pub-5828031237197105.txt - 210 splogs
#244 - 20060827_pub-4442438653768431.txt - 85 splogs
#245 - 20060827_pub-6679109618796992.txt - 18 splogs
#246 - 20060827_pub-7026214276015796.txt - 141 splogs
#247 - 20060827_pub-6041914722589762.txt - 411 splogs
#248 - 20060827_pub-8118760282896664.txt - 82 splogs
#249 - 20060827_pub-5862248185402333.txt - 28 splogs
#250 - 20060827_pub-5662363735947069.txt - 37 splogs
#251 - 20060827_pub-4606110509338636.txt - 168 splogs
#252 - 20060827_pub-8493127990056876.txt - 38 splogs
#253 - 20060827_pub-2588117545484934.txt - 68 splogs
#254 - 20060827_pub-5101644772529710.txt - 36 splogs
#255 - 20060827_pub-3383010088757762.txt - 33 splogs
#256 - 20060827_pub-0465229444918085.txt - 66 splogs
#257 - 20060827_pub-9168644235374081.txt - 45 splogs
#258 - 20060827_pub-5420661712357740.txt - 96 splogs
#259 - 20060827_pub-7137241125552321.txt - 83 splogs
#260 - 20060827_pub-6113334401042310.txt - 102 splogs
#261 - 20060827_pub-3270780146872157.txt - 112 splogs
#262 - 20060827_pub-0432572718410114.txt - 125 splogs
#263 - 20060827_pub-4043610592754704.txt - 95 splogs
#264 - 20060827_pub-7380709405113966.txt - 52 splogs
#265 - 20060827_pub-1225718875660465.txt - 82 splogs
#266 - 20060827_pub-4914099305760632.txt - 50 splogs
#267 - 20060827_pub-2914018690975045.txt - 50 splogs

Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20060827.tar.gz

AdSense Spammers #109 through #136

Another day, another big pile of splogs.

#109 - 20060825_pub-1476006839525580.txt - 228 splogs
#110 - 20060825_pub-0796060785062720.txt - 152 splogs
#111 - 20060825_pub-9956669334287343.txt - 49 splogs
#112 - 20060825_pub-2130237763197063.txt - 41 splogs
#113 - 20060825_pub-7045617043581879.txt - 941 splogs
#114 - 20060825_pub-6214592467628506.txt - 31 splogs
#115 - 20060825_pub-4822292129633815.txt - 131 splogs
#116 - 20060825_pub-6812552118966548.txt - 87 splogs
#117 - 20060825_pub-2398612268508306.txt - 115 splogs
#118 - 20060825_pub-0229854924342277.txt - 165 splogs
#119 - 20060825_pub-1358547549861132.txt - 14 splogs
#120 - 20060825_pub-6828734338995571.txt - 129 splogs
#121 - 20060825_pub-2277062697668158.txt - 75 splogs
#122 - 20060825_pub-6332732067535683.txt - 4972 splogs
#123 - 20060825_pub-6320450950308945.txt - 44 splogs
#124 - 20060825_pub-1704955770110537.txt - 756 splogs
#125 - 20060825_pub-3687590553948339.txt - 45 splogs
#126 - 20060825_pub-2346862963208908.txt - 91 splogs
#127 - 20060825_pub-9392842854696717.txt - 104 splogs
#128 - 20060825_pub-6859255185465119.txt - 33 splogs
#129 - 20060825_pub-4094279842615223.txt - 29 splogs
#130 - 20060825_pub-5445930901004443.txt - 81 splogs
#131 - 20060825_pub-2174090513244577.txt - 290 splogs
#132 - 20060825_pub-4147484841930281.txt - 59 splogs
#133 - 20060825_pub-5066699886314238.txt - 638 splogs
#134 - 20060825_pub-4188119347426737.txt - 223 splogs
#135 - 20060825_pub-3390317825337705.txt - 37 splogs
#136 - 20060825_pub-0532003655467132.txt - 49 splogs

Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20060825.tar.gz

AdSense Spammers #71 through #108

Here is yet another large batch of AdSense spammers I've been keeping my eyes on for some time now. There are some beauties like this as well as this.

#71 - 20060824_pub-3984225453945326.txt - 333 splogs
#72 - 20060824_pub-4094602012913074.txt - 227 splogs
#73 - 20060824_pub-4102974149391735.txt - 1795 splogs
#74 - 20060824_pub-4117006664512340.txt - 144 splogs
#75 - 20060824_pub-4227240997484322.txt - 167 splogs
#76 - 20060824_pub-4254163377710389.txt - 90 splogs
#77 - 20060824_pub-4261960806914112.txt - 632 splogs
#78 - 20060824_pub-4703496906336674.txt - 701 splogs
#79 - 20060824_pub-4986299813546342.txt - 745 splogs
#80 - 20060824_pub-5050263562791921.txt - 149 splogs
#81 - 20060824_pub-5081565445039564.txt - 219 splogs
#82 - 20060824_pub-5255196371530081.txt - 441 splogs
#83 - 20060824_pub-5322643586035168.txt - 113 splogs
#84 - 20060824_pub-5473170486111376.txt - 231 splogs
#85 - 20060824_pub-5636887443506632.txt - 114 splogs
#86 - 20060824_pub-5925579465645244.txt - 105 splogs
#87 - 20060824_pub-6199341854926437.txt - 1004 splogs
#88 - 20060824_pub-6237456952353329.txt - 198 splogs
#89 - 20060824_pub-6461426753285567.txt - 2170 splogs
#90 - 20060824_pub-6495273967373791.txt - 562 splogs
#91 - 20060824_pub-6639709082588047.txt - 150 splogs
#92 - 20060824_pub-6775351420320388.txt - 145 splogs
#93 - 20060824_pub-6964135662692347.txt - 152 splogs
#94 - 20060824_pub-7249307278985792.txt - 100 splogs
#95 - 20060824_pub-7360199481834230.txt - 395 splogs
#96 - 20060824_pub-7593049768533203.txt - 193 splogs
#97 - 20060824_pub-7609005535853107.txt - 572 splogs
#98 - 20060824_pub-7673461628998211.txt - 3410 splogs
#99 - 20060824_pub-7918425912987798.txt - 125 splogs
#100 - 20060824_pub-7962881690493577.txt - 322 splogs
#101 - 20060824_pub-8195777144120662.txt - 330 splogs
#102 - 20060824_pub-8484544299270855.txt - 92 splogs
#103 - 20060824_pub-8511240331202831.txt - 665 splogs
#104 - 20060824_pub-9008971452323964.txt - 125 splogs
#105 - 20060824_pub-9016062246693052.txt - 387 splogs
#106 - 20060824_pub-9061816723587019.txt - 109 splogs
#107 - 20060824_pub-9705295910350146.txt - 925 splogs
#108 - 20060824_pub-9952251937109645.txt - 436 splogs

UPDATE (8/24/2006 9:15am) - Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20060824.tar.gz

AdSense Spammers #45 through #70

Here is a big batch of AdSense spammers. Most of these splogs still have live AdSense ads showing up. There are couple that Google has already disabled but didn't delete these splogs yet.

#45 - 20060823_pub-0046208109419981.txt - 839 splogs
#46 - 20060823_pub-0200062767775630.txt - 9916 splogs
#47 - 20060823_pub-0252321648129397.txt - 302 splogs
#48 - 20060823_pub-0337441555280629.txt - 214 splogs
#49 - 20060823_pub-0409274313750649.txt - 479 splogs
#50 - 20060823_pub-0468857040545335.txt - 95 splogs
#51 - 20060823_pub-0509330611556305.txt - 96 splogs
#52 - 20060823_pub-0562686142876081.txt - 570 splogs
#53 - 20060823_pub-0665241406974047.txt - 322 splogs
#54 - 20060823_pub-0699252040996961.txt - 953 splogs
#55 - 20060823_pub-0920661407174136.txt - 134 splogs
#56 - 20060823_pub-0987953719489515.txt - 3314 splogs
#57 - 20060823_pub-1266232807344220.txt - 527 splogs
#58 - 20060823_pub-1330694155309826.txt - 1954 splogs
#59 - 20060823_pub-1628107114243267.txt - 127 splogs
#60 - 20060823_pub-2165150903898087.txt - 392 splogs
#61 - 20060823_pub-2472761041643235.txt - 91 splogs
#62 - 20060823_pub-2616984606770075.txt - 138 splogs
#63 - 20060823_pub-2655903500835228.txt - 221 splogs
#64 - 20060823_pub-3090366273282744.txt - 113 splogs
#65 - 20060823_pub-3102322233476408.txt - 323 splogs
#66 - 20060823_pub-3498238059601153.txt - 445 splogs
#67 - 20060823_pub-3664902835980799.txt - 7896 splogs
#68 - 20060823_pub-3725881936272657.txt - 252 splogs
#69 - 20060823_pub-3863183066313003.txt - 131 splogs
#70 - 20060823_pub-3911548402713071.txt - 231 splogs

On a side note, today is one year anniversary of this blog. I started this splog fighting activity exactly a year ago due being annoyed by spam. One year later I'm still just as annoyed so I will just continue with what I'm doing.

UPDATE (8/24/2006 9:14am) - Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20060823.tar.gz

AdSense Spammers #1 through #44 Revisited

Here is a review of all AdSense spammers I've posted on this blog so far. There are couple groups missing from the list and that's not really an omission. Those splogs actually don't have AdSense ads directly on them but rather they are just link farm splogs to a made for AdSense site.

#1 - 20060822_pub-1775245184601633.txt - 98 splogs
#2 - 20060822_pub-7250171464453961.txt - 490 splogs
#3 - 20060822_pub-6546712460553017.txt - 138 splogs
#4 - 20060822_pub-9849357508343919.txt - 120 splogs
#5 - 20060822_pub-1419806640171564.txt - 115 splogs
#6 - 20060822_pub-8982350429923345.txt - 26 splogs
#8 - 20060822_pub-5377259689954952.txt - 1 splog
#9 - 20060822_pub-6378932591978839.txt - 191 splogs
#11 - 20060822_pub-1814255582636512.txt - 497 splogs
#12 - 20060822_pub-9136908991487227.txt - 56 splogs
#13 - 20060822_pub-9473818430854553.txt - 390 splogs
#14 - 20060822_pub-4933590493596105.txt - 318 splogs
#15 - 20060822_pub-7684940757735466.txt - 12 splogs
#16 - 20060822_pub-3796504417592445.txt - 155 splogs
#17 - 20060822_pub-3307473173648919.txt - 214 splogs
#18 - 20060822_pub-1906436393104304.txt - 190 splogs
#19 - 20060822_pub-7170046219513510.txt - 511 splogs
#20 - 20060822_pub-2734375191857072.txt - 251 splogs
#21 - 20060822_pub-8117842711976668.txt - 53 splogs
#22 - 20060822_pub-9404959882883870.txt - 244 splogs
#23 - 20060822_pub-6870137005814159.txt - 315 splogs
#24 - 20060822_pub-0143941736540165.txt - 241 splogs
#25 - 20060822_pub-8596988294417120.txt - 35 splogs
#27 - 20060822_pub-0464798019147047.txt - 6 splogs
#29 - 20060822_pub-7892854550481168.txt - 226 splogs
#30 - 20060822_pub-6567416587233156.txt - 44 splogs
#33 - 20060822_pub-1291332004196235.txt - 40 splogs
#34 - 20060822_pub-1982342626729866.txt - 537 splogs
#35 - 20060822_pub-2289892384951776.txt - 153 splogs
#36 - 20060822_pub-2329392482194764.txt - 292 splogs
#37 - 20060822_pub-2612214550001578.txt - 175 splogs
#38 - 20060822_pub-3142157643220933.txt - 17 splogs
#39 - 20060822_pub-3840178450181179.txt - 12 splogs
#40 - 20060822_pub-5050638401937390.txt - 1745 splogs
#41 - 20060822_pub-6608779715083385.txt - 1263 splogs
#42 - 20060822_pub-7653399694531198.txt - 1056 splogs
#43 - 20060822_pub-8964691980540577.txt - 2948 splogs
#44 - 20060822_pub-9033749129161314.txt - 4113 splogs

As you can see, I have registered desplog.org. There really isn't a website hosted there and I currently don't have any plan for one. For now it's just a place to host my splog lists as usual. Just to be clear I'm not planning on moving this blog to that domain either.

UPDATE (8/24/2006 9:13am) - Here is a tarball of all splog list files listed above: 20060822.tar.gz

I'm Back!

Wow! Time flies. It's been almost two months and three weeks since I posted anything here. Actually I've been back for the last two weeks trying to catch up with some data collecting efforts. I've had two power supply units, couple sticks of ram, and one hard drive go bad on me during the the last two months but I have mostly recovered from that by juggling some spare parts and getting some new replacements. I've also solved my file hosting problem as well and I will make that announcement when time comes to post some analysis results. All systems go! I will resume where I left off in a day or two.

Current Status

It has been a rather busy two weeks since I've posted a big batch of splogs but to my surprise Google has done very little with them. It appears most of them have gone untouched. Only thing Google has done is they selectively blocked AdSense ads from showing up on the splogs I've posted but spammer's AdSense account remains active. The AdSense ads on splogs in blogspot.com is no longer showing but it continues to show ads everywhere else.

Although I can't go into the details but lets just say that I've accidentally discovered Google's new method of deterring splogs. Initially I thought this was a very good thing but the more I thought about it I find the measure to be too late and mostly ineffective. I had a suspicion that Google has quietly implemented some sort of bulk splog deletion measures few weeks ago but I couldn't quite put my finger on how it worked because it was somewhat of a hit and miss. The one problem I see is they have set the threshhold for this bulk splog deletion to kick in at very high splog numbers. Also this deterrent depends on a false assumptions about how spammers create these splogs. I know for fact some bulk splog creation tool already has countermeasures in place for months now and this explains why Google's new bulk splog deletion routine has been somewhat ineffective. Also it doesn't do anything for more than a million splogs that already exist in Blogger already. Anyway, I suppose it's still better than nothing so that's why I've chosen not to discuss the details.

It appears I've hit the maximum numbers of files allowed in my Google Pages account which is 100. I will have to come up with some other way to make my splog list available to public. Anyone have any ideas?

AdSense Spammers #33 through #44

Below is a dozen AdSense spammers busy scamming money from advertisers by creating boat load of useless splogs. Every one of these splogs contain AdSense ads directly on them.

#33 - 20060515_pub-1291332004196235.txt - 1864 splogs
#34 - 20060515_pub-1982342626729866.txt - 1138 splogs
#35 - 20060515_pub-2289892384951776.txt - 680 splogs
#36 - 20060515_pub-2329392482194764.txt - 989 splogs
#37 - 20060515_pub-2612214550001578.txt - 1131 splogs
#38 - 20060515_pub-3142157643220933.txt - 1023 splogs
#39 - 20060515_pub-3840178450181179.txt - 585 splogs
#40 - 20060515_pub-5050638401937390.txt - 1745 splogs
#41 - 20060515_pub-6608779715083385.txt - 2611 splogs
#42 - 20060515_pub-7653399694531198.txt - 1057 splogs
#43 - 20060515_pub-8964691980540577.txt - 1658 splogs
#44 - 20060515_pub-9033749129161314.txt - 2891 splogs

UPDATE (5/23/2006 11:50pm) - Someone has contacted me regarding one false positive in #44. What happened was sometime between May 9th and now, the splog was deleted and was replaced with a legitimate blog. It appears Google did delete some but this spammer has managed to create alot more splogs in the meantime. I've refreshed my database of splogs and the new list is below:

#44 - 20060523_pub-9033749129161314.txt - 4164 splogs

Big Batch of Splogs

Today I thought I'd post a big batch of splogs to keep Google folks busy. Combined splog count is about 47,900.

20060511_1.txt - 271 splogs (Junk)
20060511_2.txt - 104 splogs (Gambling, Porn)
20060511_3.txt - 132 splogs (Junk)
20060511_4.txt - 138 splogs (Porn)
20060511_5.txt - 158 splogs (Porn)
20060511_6.txt - 180 splogs (Gambling)
20060511_7.txt - 225 splogs (Gambling)
20060511_8.txt - 429 splogs (Junk)
20060511_9.txt - 312 splogs (Junk)
20060511_10.txt - 363 splogs (Junk)
20060511_11.txt - 418 splogs (Junk)
20060511_12.txt - 249 splogs (Junk)
20060511_13.txt - 649 splogs (Junk)
20060511_14.txt - 702 splogs (Porn)
20060511_15.txt - 858 splogs (Redirect)
20060511_16.txt - 979 splogs (Junk)
20060511_17.txt - 1088 splogs (Junk)
20060511_18.txt - 1104 splogs (Gambling)
20060511_19.txt - 1156 splogs (Fake Google Search Result)
20060511_20.txt - 560 splogs (Junk)
20060511_21.txt - 1255 splogs (Junk)
20060511_22.txt - 1265 splogs (Junk)
20060511_23.txt - 1423 splogs (Fake Google Search Result)
20060511_24.txt - 1618 splogs (Junk)
20060511_25.txt - 1955 splogs (Junk)
20060511_26.txt - 2081 splogs (Fake Google Search Result)
20060511_27.txt - 2249 splogs (Fake Google Search Result)
20060511_28.txt - 2604 splogs (Redirect Porn)
20060511_29.txt - 2914 splogs (Junk)
20060511_30.txt - 3123 splogs (Porn)
20060511_31.txt - 8536 splogs (Junk)
20060511_32.txt - 3679 splogs (Redirect Porn)
20060511_33.txt - 5126 splogs (Gambling)

AdSense Spammer #32

Here is yet another AdSense spammer that created 1885 splogs which are nothing but link farm pointing to his made for AdSense website. His AdSense id is pub-5033534681835527.

20060509_pub-5033534681835527.txt - 1885 splogs

AdSense Spammer #31

Here is a typical AdSense spammer who created 8165 splogs all pointing to his website with an AdSense ad. Every one of his blogs aren't really blog at all but rather a static page with a link and an email address. His AdSense id is pub-9004570362789198.

20060509_pub-9004570362789198.txt - 8165 splogs

AdSense Spammer #7 and #10 Revisited

It turns out tactics and methods used by both of these two past AdSense spammers are so similar, they are indistinguishable and therefore my only conclusion is that they have to be the same person or at least working together on their spamming efforts. I've also noticed that there are some crossovers in the target website and AdSense ids from the two groups. I will merge the two list into one as result. Although he mainly uses one AdSense id pub-8886102306252551, he also uses pub-9284117370015193 as well as pub-5377259689954952 in his 9976 domains. This spammer created nearly 10,000 made for AdSense websites each with thousands of pages and also created over 130,000 splogs on blogspot.com. There are currently 134,898 splogs in my database with his unique fingerprint on them but I know I didn't catch all of his splogs. My script will needs more tweaking to extract rest of his splogs from my database and that will take some time.

20060509_pub-8886102306252551.txt (2822049 bytes) - 134898 splogs
20060509_pub-8886102306252551_domain.txt (155685 bytes) - 9976 target domains

UPDATE (5/10/2006 5:25am) - To Google's credit, they deleted quite a number of splogs since I started accumulating this spammer's splogs. I've removed most of deleted splogs from the above list and the new filtered list is posted below.

20060510_pub-8886102306252551.txt - (1624955 bytes) - 77688 splogs

AdSense Spammer #30

Here is yet another prolific AdSense spammer. He created 1956 splogs and his AdSense id is pub-6567416587233156.

20060508_pub-6567416587233156.txt - 1956 splogs

AdSense Spammer #29

This AdSense spammer created 954 splogs. His AdSense id is pub-7892854550481168.

20060508_pub-7892854550481168.txt - 954 splogs

AdSense Spammer #28

Here is another big fat AdSense spammer. He created 9760 splogs and his AdSense id is pub-2824903946539656.

20060508_pub-2824903946539656.txt - 9760 splogs

AdSense Spammer #27

Here is an AdSense spammer with 1477 splogs. His AdSense id is pub-0464798019147047.

20060508_pub-0464798019147047.txt - 1477 splogs

AdSense Spammer #26

Here is one of many AdSense spammers I'll be posting for today. The first one weighs in at a whopping 22329 splogs. His AdSense id is pub-7373047709030115.

20060508_pub-7373047709030115.txt - 22329 splogs

AdSense Spammers #1 through #13 Revisited

I went through what happened with some of the old AdSense spammers I've reported here starting from the beginning. It turns out #7 and #10 are special cases known as "Big Fish" and "Bigger Fish" respective and needs to be looked at separately. Here are all other AdSense funded spammers and where they stand. It turns out only few of the AdSense accounts are really no longer active.

#1 - Dead - 3916 out of 4248 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-1775245184601633.txt
#2 - Dead - 3448 out of 5909 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-7250171464453961.txt
#3 - Dead - 140 out of 1597 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-6546712460553017.txt
#4 - Alive - 123 out of 866 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-9849357508343919.txt
#5 - Alive - 115 out of 826 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-1419806640171564.txt
#6 - Alive - 32 out of 414 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-8982350429923345.txt
#8 - Dead - 1617 out of 8128 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-5377259689954952.txt
#9 - Alive - 527 out of 1577 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-6378932591978839.txt
#11 - Alive - 1095 out of 1479 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-1814255582636512.txt
#12 - Alive - 451 out of 1236 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-9136908991487227.txt
#13 - Alive - 429 out of 2530 splogs remain - 20060501_pub-9473818430854553.txt

I also found something rather strange going on with AdSense ads on some of the reported splogs. When looking at AdSense spammers #20 through #25, the AdSense ads on them have stopped showing up on them which leads me to think spammer's AdSense account is dead. Well, so I thought but it turns out it isn't so. Here is one of the splog from AdSense spammer #25. As you can see the AdSense ads no longer appears. However, when I go to one of the site like this, AdSense ad is still there. What is going on here? It appears Google has selectively disabled AdSense ads on blogspot.com domain but didn't really do anything about the account itself. Why is Google doing this? Why is Google bending over backwards in effort to have a business relationship with these spammers?

AdSense Spammer #25

My apologies to monty python...

Splog Splog Splog Splog. Lovely Splog! Wonderful Splog!


pub-8596988294417120.txt - 1144 splogs

AdSense Spammer #24

Here is another AdSense spammer but this one is especially lazy. This guy didn't even bother to even cut and paste some bogus nonsensical text. Check out these beauties with absolutely no content other than the title of a blog. I'm surprised AdSense even attempts to show relavent ads on these splogs. How can there be a contextual ad if there is no content to speak of? He created 1354 splogs more or less like these:

soap-making-book.blogspot.com
soap-making-canada.blogspot.com
soap-making-class.blogspot.com
soap-making-craft.blogspot.com
soap-making-direction.blogspot.com
soap-making-dye.blogspot.com
soap-making-equipment.blogspot.com
soap-making-forum.blogspot.com
soap-making-fragrance.blogspot.com
soap-making-fragrance-oil.blogspot.com
soap-making-idea.blogspot.com
soap-making-ingredient.blogspot.com
soap-making-instructions.blogspot.com

pub-0143941736540165.txt - 1354 splogs

AdSense Spammer #23

More of the same here. This AdSense spammer created 1679 splogs all with blocks of cut and paste identical text.

pub-6870137005814159.txt - 1679 splogs

AdSense Spammer #22

There is nothing all that special about this AdSense spammer. He created 2097 splogs.

pub-9404959882883870.txt - 2097 splogs

AdSense Spammer #21

This AdSense spammer created 2241 splogs. It's pretty self explanatory.

pub-8117842711976668.txt - 2241 splogs

AdSense Spammer #20

I've been quite busy lately with reorganizing my database to be more flexible and that's been taking up most of my time for the past week. I've somehow managed to resurrect most of my dead brain cells that contained all stale knowledge from Oracle days and I will be using them to have some fun with MySQL. Anyway I see that I have about a dozen or so new AdSense spammers queued up and ready to go. Here is a spammer who created 2600 splogs like this. One would think creating 2600 pages with a block of cut and paste text with AdSense ad would be a violation of AdSense policy but with Google spotty policy enforcement you never know what will happen. Anyway we'll see.

I've also decided to post full list from now on. No more of this first 1000 of bizillion splogs because I don't have the time nor the energy to keep track. I am also going through all past nineteen AdSense spammers to see what really happened to their AdSense accounts.

pub-2734375191857072.txt - 2600 splogs

Current Status

It appears Google has decided to delete some splogs I've posted here. Although that itself isn't a bad thing, they are still very hesitant to do anything about the AdSense account of the spammers who created these splogs. I simply disagree with the method of how Google is addressing the problem. They are essentially driving over a weed with a lawn mower rather than pulling them by the roots. Spammers will simply recreate the deleted splogs and the cycle repeats.

So far I have accumulated more than 2.1 million blogs in my archive database. I have identified about 960 thousand blogs as splogs. The actual number of splogs are in fact much higher since I'm currently using a very conservative method to identify splogs. That means at least half of all new blogs created in the last five month are splogs. Of the 2.1 million blogs about 180 thousand blogs have AdSense ads on them. Of the 180 thousand blogs with AdSense ads, 41 thousands of them are splogs which is about 23%. That means about one out of four AdSense ads on blogspot blogs there to fund spammers. This percentage has jumped from 16% to 23% just in the last month. A month before that, the numbers were in the low tens.

UPDATE (4/10/2006 2:22pm) - It appears Google is indeed deleting splogs. I'm going to start publishing large groups of splogs and see if Google will delete them in bulk or at least mark them as splogs.

AdSense Spammer #19

This AdSense spammer created 1535 splogs.

pub-7170046219513510_1000.txt - first 1000 of 1535 splogs

AdSense Spammer #18

Here is another AdSense spammer with 2947 splogs. It appears these AdSense funded spammers are getting bolder. I'm thinking it has something to do with Google deciding to look the other way.

pub-1906436393104304_1000.txt - first 1000 of 2947 splogs

AdSense Spammer #17

Here is an AdSense spammer with 3166 splogs. I'm sure they are all machine generated.

pub-3307473173648919_1000.txt - first 1000 of 3166 splogs

AdSense Spammer #16

This AdSense spammer does deserve to be highlighted in more harsh light due to the kind of splog he created. Check out this beauty. He created 556 of these fat splogs each with AdSense ad (pub-3796504417592445) on them. If you click on one of those links on that splog, you end up with this page. He is using a different AdSense account on those pages. That AdSense account id is pub-0018564979209276. I really would like Google to respond to this one critical question about AdSense policy. Does this spamming violate AdSense policy? If yes, which AdSense accounts? Just ones on the splog itself or the ones the links are pointing to?

I have come to a crossroad when it comes to what I can do about fighting splogs. Personally I think Google should ban both AdSense accounts but that's just me. Of course that's not for me to judge but rather it's really up to Google. But then again is it? In the end, the power behind the decision lies with the advertisers who foot the bill for the ads showing up on each and every one of the splogs as well as countless target pages. Google is no doubt profit drivin so they are more likely to say that these target pages are perfectly fine as they have in the past. I'd bet advertisers would beg to differ. I simply can't imagine that advertisers would see value in their ads showing up on made for AdSense page like this. What more can I do if Google chooses to ignore the problem? One thing left is for me to contact the advertisers directly and let them know of how they are wasting their money by putting their ads on spammer's website. I really don't want to do this because this can potentially damage Google's reputation. I am an AdSense publisher myself so if advertisers go away it impacts me as well. I suppose I'm simply thinking out loud as to what the next logical step in fighting splog is and what consequences it will bring. What's clear to me now is I am now going have to think about this decision more seriously as I'm witnessing Google more inclined to brush the splog problem under the rug. This is the main reason why I am not publishing the full splog list but rather just the first 100 splogs from this spammer. Ultimately I would very much prefer to work with Google than against Google.

pub-3796504417592445_100.txt - first 100 of 556 splogs