fighting splog

412,643 Splogs

2007-08-03T16:41:00.000-04:00

As you can see the number is rising once again. Actually that's not because Google hasn't been deleting splogs but rather more splogs are being created and I've been having better luck at discovering them. I've also split the list into three pages.

Splog List - 2007 / 08 / 03
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Combined Page
20070803.tar.gz

I've been meaning to work on some some alternate analysis tools but I've been just too busy to do so. Hopefully I'll get around to work on them this month.

275,033 Splogs

2007-07-02T10:19:00.000-04:00

The splog list update is long overdue. The splog count is way down and that's a good thing. As you can see Google is indeed deleting lots of splogs.

Splog List - 2007 / 07 / 02 - 20070702.tar.gz

I'll be ramping up data collection as well as more analysis. There are couple identification method theories I haven't explored yet and I'll be busy writing some code to test them out. We'll see what comes out of that.

575,273 Splogs

2007-05-15T15:26:00.000-04:00

It looks like Google is finally doing something about the current splog problem. They are indeed deleting and blocking splogs by large numbers. One significant change I've noticed as of late is that they are detecting splogs as they are being created and blocking them which is very good news. Hopefully this deters spammers from creating splogs since now they are wasting their time.

Splog List - 2007 / 05 / 15 - 20070515.tar.gz

Last month's infamous #704's quarter million splogs are mostly history. It turns out #702 is actually the same spammer as #704. I've seen splogs from #704 change it's AdSense account id to #702's account id. He still has about twenty thousand splogs remaining. I hope Google will stamp out rest of his splogs soon.

Two spammers top the list this time around. #753 and #752 top the list at 136,583 and 64,476 splogs respectively. Even though #752 has a smaller number he is one I'm keeping my eyes on because he is more active spammer right now. I see that Google is deleting many of his splogs but this spammer is creating lot more daily.

I will still be focused on AdSense spammers for at least one more cycle. There are still quite a few out there and I'm going to try to track them down.

692,407 Splogs

2007-04-23T23:30:00.000-04:00

It's been almost a month since the last update so here it goes. I've merged my past AdSense spammers list into this list and they will be tracked from now on. There is this big jump in splog numbers despite the fact the Blogger folks are deleting large number of splogs as of late. About ten days ago I've noticed that Blogger has started blocking blocks of splogs citing terms of service violation. It's going to be interesting to see how spammers will react to this new barrier. I have not seen a significant rise or drop in number of new blogs created daily but I'm hopeful.

Splog List - 2007 / 04 / 23 - 20070423.tar.gz

I would like to highlight this one particular AdSense spammer (pub-3337253475650548) #704 with 265,421 splogs. I see that AdSense ads on his splogs are already disabled but it's not certain if his account was suspended as result of his spamming. One would think that he would be the candidate for AdSense account suspension but of course that' something I may never find out. Anyway he tops the list as the all time most number of splogs created for one AdSense account. Yes, it took Google more than quarter million splogs until they did anything. I'm also hoping that will change as well.

455,660 Splogs

2007-03-26T12:34:00.000-04:00

It's been few weeks so it's time to update the list again. The list now stands at 455,660 splogs which is a modest gain from the last update earlier this month.

There is a good and bad points about this update. Even though I did not mention #193 specifically Google has deleted almost all of 72,918 splogs however sadly this spammer managed to create over 100,000 splogs during that time.

Google has deleted good bulk of AdSense spammer (pub-3337253475650548) #243's 96,129 splogs which I've highlighted earlier this month. That sounded like a good thing until I dug in little deeper. It appears this spammer got himself two more Adsense accounts pub-9261293433228058 and pub-6042971451021774. This spammer uses a site l-2-l.com to host FireFox image files for his splogs and created this pathetic splog as well as others splogs shown on his profile as a target for his redirect splogs. I see that he has resumed creating splogs by the thousands once again all pointing his splogs in effort to earn commission via AdSense. He is back up to above 17,000 already.

Splog List - 2007 / 03 / 26 - 20070326.tar.gz

It's clear I'll have to focus my attention back onto AdSense splogs. I will be reviewing all AdSense splogs I've published on this blog in the past and merging them into this list. I've already seen some new AdSense spammers creating anywhere from 20,000 to 250,000 per one AdSense account. I expect this list to get very big quickly.

411,657 Splogs

2007-03-06T11:28:00.000-05:00

It's been a month since my last update and it appears the splog numbers have skyrocketed since then. The list currently stands at 411,657 unique splogs. I see that Google does delete splogs but no where near the rate at which they are being created.

Splog List - 2007 / 03 / 06

Here is the tarball of the list for those that want to download the whole list.

20070306.tar.gz

Spammer #243 is the new reigning king of splogs this time around with 96,129 splogs to his name. This spammer is especially a bad since all of his splogs redirect to one splog get-firefox2.blogspot.com. This spammer is actually an AdSense (pub-3337253475650548) spammer since he wants people to download Firefox browser and get a commission. Even though I'm a big fan of Firefox browser I'm most definitely not a fan of what this spammer is doing. Hopefully Google can put a stop to this guy soon.

216,995 Splogs

2007-02-08T03:24:00.000-05:00

After almost a two month hiatus, I'm back. Actually I haven't gone anywhere. I've been busy collecting and monitoring the progress Blogger folks were making on deleting splogs. I've decided to update my splog list and add couple more entries. Instead of dumping the list directly on this blog I've made a page for my list to reduce clutter. Here is the link for the list of 216,995 splogs.

Splog List - 2007 / 02 / 08

Here is the tarball of the list for those that want to download the whole list.

20070208.tar.gz

Splog group #158 through #189 have been identified as splogs using a different methods than all the previous splogs on the list. I won't go into details of what that method is specifically but it's turning out to be quite an effective method so I will be using it in conjunction with previous methods. Since those groups were detected using a new method, there are duplicated splogs across the group.

There is this one spammer I've been keeping track of. It's the #182 on my list. At one time this spammer managed to create over 151,000 splogs but it looks like Blogger deleted almost 130 thousand of his splogs just recently. I'll be watching his bahaviors closely and report what I can.

Splog List Update

2006-12-14T06:53:00.000-05:00

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

2006-11-10T21:24:00.000-05:00

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

2006-10-30T13:29:00.000-05:00

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

2006-10-16T04:29:00.000-04:00

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

2006-10-13T15:03:00.000-04:00

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

2006-09-25T06:26:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-27T19:00:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-25T08:56:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-24T07:08:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-23T02:47:00.000-04:00

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

2006-08-22T01:53:00.000-04:00

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!

2006-08-21T18:06:00.000-04:00

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

2006-06-02T15:16:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-15T01:27:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-11T17:00:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-09T20:28:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-09T20:14:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-09T16:44:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-07T22:40:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-07T22:33:00.000-04:00

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

20060508_pub-7892854550481168.txt - 954 splogs

AdSense Spammer #28

2006-05-07T22:31:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-07T22:29:00.000-04:00

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

20060508_pub-0464798019147047.txt - 1477 splogs

AdSense Spammer #26

2006-05-07T22:24:00.000-04:00

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

2006-05-01T10:03:00.000-04:00

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

2006-04-17T19:54:00.000-04:00

My apologies to monty python...

Splog Splog Splog Splog. Lovely Splog! Wonderful Splog!

pub-8596988294417120.txt - 1144 splogs

AdSense Spammer #24

2006-04-17T19:37:00.000-04:00

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

2006-04-17T19:27:00.000-04:00

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

2006-04-17T19:24:00.000-04:00

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

pub-9404959882883870.txt - 2097 splogs

AdSense Spammer #21

2006-04-17T19:20:00.000-04:00

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

pub-8117842711976668.txt - 2241 splogs

AdSense Spammer #20

2006-04-17T19:02:00.000-04:00

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

2006-04-08T12:56:00.000-04:00

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

2006-04-04T06:45:00.000-04:00

This AdSense spammer created 1535 splogs.

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

AdSense Spammer #18

2006-04-04T06:40:00.000-04:00

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

2006-04-04T06:35:00.000-04:00

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

2006-03-29T08:17:00.000-05:00

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

AdSense Spammer #15

2006-03-29T08:15:00.000-05:00

Another day, another AdSense spammer. This spammer created 1135 splogs and his AdSense account id is pub-7684940757735466

pub-7684940757735466.txt - 1135 splogs

AdSense Spammer #14

2006-03-28T08:22:00.000-05:00

Here is yet another AdSense funded spammer. Content on every one of his 1967 splogs are nothing more than cut and paste of duplicated content. His AdSense id is pub-4933590493596105.

pub-4933590493596105.txt - 1967 splogs

AdSense Spammer #13

2006-03-28T07:54:00.000-05:00

This is your run-of-the-mill AdSense spammer. He created 2494 splogs in Blogger each with an AdSense ad unit. His AdSense account id is pub-9473818430854553.

pub-9473818430854553.txt - 2494 splogs

AdSense Spammer #12

2006-03-09T08:00:00.000-05:00

This particular AdSense spammer started out by creating nonsensical junk splogs with filled with links just like this but then he moved onto a redirect splogs that automatically take users to his herbal smoke shop. All 595 of his splogs either have AdSense ad directly on them or does automatic redirect to a page that has the same AdSense ad on them.

pub-9136908991487227_100.txt - First 100 of 595 splogs

AdSense Spammer #11

2006-03-08T11:27:00.000-05:00

Here is yet another spammer that created 897 splogs. He created whole bunch of mess like this as well as blatent AdSense policy violation like this. The rest of the splogs he created are nothing more than cut and paste of mesothelioma articles as well as other alleged high paying AdSense keyword filled text. I guess he would calls this spamming some sort of "search engine optimization".

pub-1814255582636512_100.txt - First 100 of 897 splogs

AdSense Spammer #10 (Bigger Fish)

2006-03-07T06:03:00.000-05:00

This spammer's splogs have a similar look and feel to the handy work of spammer #7 I've reported last week but he is indeed a bigger fish. He created at least 54051 splogs that have countless number of links pointing to his made for AdSense pages in 5240 domains. It's hard to get an accurate number of splogs since he has been very prolific. This spammer's AdSense id is pub-8886102306252551. Here are first ten of his target domains:

faadware.com
faballs.com
fabare.com
fablade.com
faceasset.com
faceautomatic.com
faceavery.com
facecounty.com
facehilton.com
facehub.com

pub-8886102306252551_domain.txt - 5240 splog target domain list

He tries to fool people into thinking that his target websites are blogs but that's only in appearence. On bottom every splog target website "blog" is a just a pile of words and links pointing AdSense target pages.

pub-8886102306252551_1000.txt - First 1000 splogs out of 54051 splogs he created. I'll post the full 54051 splog list when Google does something about this spammer.

AdSense Spammer #9

2006-03-06T09:02:00.000-05:00

This is a new prolific AdSense spammer that made it's debut only few days ago. In a very short time he managed to create 1382 splogs each with AdSense ad on them. This is yet another bulk spammer meaning he created whole batches of the same splogs in a fairly predictable manner. I'll post the first one hundred as a sample and that should be enough for Google to do something about this spammer. I'll post the rest when Google does it's thing.

pub-6378932591978839_100.txt - first 100 splogs out of 1382

AdSense Spammer #8 (Another Big Fish)

2006-03-02T07:21:00.000-05:00

This spammer has to be the most blatent AdSense spammer I've came across to date. I've seen alot of AdSense supported spammers but this one takes the cake and then some. He created at least 7897 spam blogs in Blogger that automatically redirect to a page like this. There is absolutely no content whatsoever on thousands of pages. He is essentially force feeding AdSense ads with thousands of splogs on Blogger. If this guy doesn't deserve a swift kick from AdSense policy enforcement, I don't know who does. Here are the first twenty splogs as a sample:

0-2006-60-acura-tl-49af.blogspot.com
0-60-ford-gt-mustang-7.blogspot.com
1-14a-32-f-tamiya-efd2f.blogspot.com
1-165-cg1-f-g1-hei-m-n-p-9757c.blogspot.com
1-based-business-hom-a45b.blogspot.com
1-based-business-home-op-ca7e1.blogspot.com
1-f-link-nothingheldba-a8aa2.blogspot.com
1-f-ps-psd-6ec9.blogspot.com
1-home-based-business-9c3a.blogspot.com
10-best-home-based-bus-5.blogspot.com
10-best-home-based-busi-0.blogspot.com
100-best-web-hosting-20fd.blogspot.com
100-mortgage-second-d26.blogspot.com
1000-cash-advance-c2d7.blogspot.com
101-best-home-based--11.blogspot.com
101-best-home-based-bus-fd13.blogspot.com
1101-dvd-lite-lvw-reco-855b5.blogspot.com
1123873607176991-9258-bi-eb45.blogspot.com
12-week-pregnant-wit-cbe5.blogspot.com
125-home-equity-loan-b74.blogspot.com

pub-5377259689954952_1000.txt - first 1000 splogs out of 7897. I'll post the full list when Google does something about this spammer's AdSense account.

UPDATED (3/4/2006 7:31am) - This AdSense spammer is no more. Oddly other spammer's AdSense account remain intact. I do wonder about what criteria Google uses to determine which AdSense abuse is tolerable while others are not. Anyway here is the list of 7897 splogs this spammer created.

pub-5377259689954952.txt - 7897 splogs (306,413 bytes)

AdSense Spammer #7 (Big Fish)

2006-03-01T00:31:00.000-05:00

This is a spammer I've been keeping my eye on for a while. This is one of the big fish I've been analyzing and collecting data. Actually he is a smaller spammer of the two but nevertheless a major spammer. He created at least 21742 spam blogs during the last weeks or so. Most definitely he created lot more but I think 21 thousand splogs are enough for me to qualify this spammer as a big fish. He also fits in the category of AdSense spammer even though splogs he creates doesn't have AdSense ads on them but because he has links pointing websites and relies on AdSense as the only source of revenue. Another words, if the answer to the question, "Would he stop creating splogs if his AdSense account was taken away?" is yes then he is an AdSense spammer. He has at least 121 .com domain websites which has his AdSense ads on them with an id pub-6982863234175175. Here are the first ten target domains as a sample:

faronutritional.com
faterunes.com
favahorse.com
feckrhapsody.com
fedsframe.com
feedbreath.com
feltscrapbooking.com
feusstatue.com
ficepurses.com
fidsbilling.com

pub-6982863234175175_domain.txt - 121 splog target domain list

There is a interesting twist in his spam target websites. When you take a look at the source of faronutritional.com website, you don't see the usual AdSense code in the html. Instead AdSense code is in a separate JavaScript file http://www.faronutritional.com/source.js.

inc_top_js =
'<script type="text/javascript"></script>\n<script '
+ 'type="text/javascript"\n src="http://pagead2.googlesynd'
+ 'ication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">\n</script>';

// end_var_declaration
document.write(inc_top_js);

I noticed that this spammers used a common tactics to mask the AdSense JavaScript code by chopping it up into pieces. The obvious reason for this is to prevent from being parsed easily and to hide detection. This in itself is a violation of AdSense policy and to me it's an admission of guilt by this spammer.

pub-6982863234175175_1000.txt - First 1000 splogs out of 21742 splogs he created. I will be posting the full list once his AdSense account goes poof.

AdSense Spammer #6

2006-02-28T23:47:00.000-05:00

Here is a spammer that created 407 splogs with AdSense ads. Either he is trying to sell ringtones or trying to crash your browser with sheer number of links on a page. Actually it turns out he isn't trying to sell anything. Many of his links point to yet another page with even more links with no content but AdSense ads. An example of such a painful page is here.

pub-8982350429923345.txt - 409 splogs (15,470 bytes)

AdSense Spammer #5

2006-02-26T14:23:00.000-05:00

Here is yet another AdSense spammer that create 791 splogs. This one is bit different in that most of the splogs he created has Google search box in them. Some of them do have your average AdSense ads as well as links pointing to his made for AdSense script generated web site. I'm going to begin posting the complete list of splogs via Google Pages. They allow 100MB space which is adequate for this purpose. I'll be doing the same for past AdSense spammers I've posted here.

pub-1419806640171564.txt - 791 splogs (23,001 bytes)

UPDATE (4/4/2006 7:30am) - This AdSense spammer's account is still active. Here is his made for AdSense site. It looks like Google deleted the splogs but left his AdSense account intact.

AdSense Spammer #4

2006-02-24T01:05:00.000-05:00

Here is an AdSense spammer that created 84 spam blogs with AdSense ads on them as well as links pointing to his website also with AdSense ads. Here are 84 splogs he created:

bankersbox-survey-mnlo.blogspot.com
best-blogspot-paid-site-survey-ydyf.blogspot.com
bloglinesnews.blogspot.com
bottledwatercooler.blogspot.com
bqhdobis.blogspot.com
bulletin-myspace-survey-ogio.blogspot.com
business-online-tips.blogspot.com
businessopportunitylead.blogspot.com
career-interest-survey-ceqr.blogspot.com
ccvhcgrl.blogspot.com
circuitcity-survey-jnko.blogspot.com
cleanwatersystem.blogspot.com
customer-survey-theo.blogspot.com
customer-survey-wlnk.blogspot.com
dottie-weight-loss-zone-slmo.blogspot.com
dotties-weight-loss-zone-gaqk.blogspot.com
drinkingwatersystem.blogspot.com
earnresidualincome.blogspot.com
eqnptjeuwc.blogspot.com
extraincomeopportunity.blogspot.com
franchisebusinessopportunity.blogspot.com
free-online-paid-survey-tokh.blogspot.com
free-salary-survey-sccd.blogspot.com
freeonlinepaidsurvey.blogspot.com
friend-survey-yezx.blogspot.com
fun-personal-survey-xshs.blogspot.com
fun-survey-question-qhfn.blogspot.com
fun-survey-ufdp.blogspot.com
fun-survey-ywbe.blogspot.com
funny-survey-breb.blogspot.com
gaining-weight-lmlz.blogspot.com
geological-survey-jrvt.blogspot.com
get-paid-for-online-survey-puyn.blogspot.com
get-paid-to-take-survey-ulov.blogspot.com
getpaidonlinesurvey.blogspot.com
getpaidtotakesurvey.blogspot.com
highestpaidsurvey.blogspot.com
home-business-opportunity.blogspot.com
home-interior-design-idea.blogspot.com
homebasedbusinessopportunitytips.blogspot.com
homebusinessopportunityonline.blogspot.com
household-survey-bls-hvse.blogspot.com
household-survey-bls-zzvp.blogspot.com
howtogetrichquick.blogspot.com
internet-dating-service-lurs.blogspot.com
internet-survey-ktdk.blogspot.com
internetbusinessonline.blogspot.com
internetbusinessopportunitytips.blogspot.com
kohls-survey-vokv.blogspot.com
lose-weight-fast-hwow.blogspot.com
makingmoneyopportunity.blogspot.com
market-survey-jupd.blogspot.com
mlmbusinessopportunity.blogspot.com
multimilliondollar.blogspot.com
natural-weight-loss-abce.blogspot.com
online-survey-top-lgbj.blogspot.com
onlinebusinessopportunitytips.blogspot.com
opinion-survey-gidr.blogspot.com
paid-survey-online.blogspot.com
paidsurveysite.blogspot.com
purewatersystem.blogspot.com
purifier-water.blogspot.com
question-space-survey-ldjd.blogspot.com
quick-weight-loss-fgco.blogspot.com
smallbusinessopportunity.blogspot.com
survey-monkey-yuui.blogspot.com
survey-research-xqsf.blogspot.com
survey-software-kezm.blogspot.com
teen-survey-nqck.blogspot.com
united-state-geological-survey-dxfp.blogspot.com
united-state-geological-survey-zysx.blogspot.com
watercoolerdispenser.blogspot.com
waterdispenser.blogspot.com
waterfiltersystem.blogspot.com
waterpurificationsystem.blogspot.com
waterpurifiersystem.blogspot.com
watertreatmentsystem.blogspot.com
weight-lifting-supplement-unpt.blogspot.com
weight-loss-diet.blogspot.com
weight-loss-diet-wdhv.blogspot.com
weight-loss-surgery-vbxm.blogspot.com
work-from-home-jobs.blogspot.com
workathomebusinessopportunitytips.blogspot.com
zagat-survey-xehn.blogspot.com

I'm very much interested in what Google will do this time. It seems like yesterday Google has chosen to ignore their own AdSense policy by not banning the AdSense account of the splog's target page AdSense account. Yesterday's precedence leads to some unforseen inconsistencies in their policy enforcement. Here are two possiblities:

1. Google chooses to not ban this AdSense account - This creates a rather odd loophole in their AdSense policy. If spammers were to create whole bunch of splogs with AdSense ads, they will get banned immediately as we've seen before. However for some reason if they create bunch of AdSense splogs but with links pointing to an external site with AdSense ads from same account, then they are immune from being banned. How bizarre is that?

2. Google chooses to ban this AdSense account - This creates a different kind of inconsistancy in enforcement of their policy. Spammer's from yesterday get to keep his own AdSense account active and is free to go on about his spamming while this spammer's AdSense account is no more. Two spammers have done pretty much the same thing yet the punishment is very different. It ends up being a selective enforcement of their policy and that can have legal consequences. This can also encourage spammers to create multiple AdSense account using family member's name to minimize their risk of being banned. I've already seen some spammers with multiple AdSense accounts so I guess this is nothing new.

UPDATE (2/28/2006 11:10pm) - I've underestimated the number of splogs this spammer created. I was looking at the incremental splog count instead of full splog count by this spammer. The full list as follows:

pub-9849357508343919.txt - 543 splogs (18,437 bytes)

UPDATE (4/4/2006 8:00am) - Google has effectively swept this AdSense spammer under the rug. His splogs are gone but his account remains. This page still has his AdSense ad meaning only his splogs are gone but his account is still active and he probably gets to keep any money earned from spamming. Obviously he is still free to spam as he pleases and Google has knowlingly allowed this to go on.

AdSense Spammer #3

2006-02-22T23:33:00.000-05:00

Here is yet another AdSense spammer who created over 1300 splogs in Blogger. This spammer's splog has a similar look and feel as the yesterday's spammer so he could be using a same tool to create his splogs or maybe even a same individual. His splog "content" are all from RSS feeds or scraped from other news sites including images. Here are some samples:

4512318.blogspot.com
4522170.blogspot.com
4523210.blogspot.com
4528849.blogspot.com
4532544.blogspot.com
4534967.blogspot.com
4538837.blogspot.com
454641.blogspot.com
4556320.blogspot.com
4557724.blogspot.com
4583310.blogspot.com
4583674.blogspot.com
4592123.blogspot.com
4596544.blogspot.com
4596587.blogspot.com
4599987.blogspot.com
ad11587.blogspot.com
ad17515.blogspot.com
ad18749.blogspot.com
ad3232.blogspot.com
ad3378.blogspot.com
ad35491.blogspot.com
ad3563.blogspot.com
ad36633.blogspot.com
ad36944.blogspot.com
ad3947.blogspot.com
ad39475.blogspot.com
ad41106.blogspot.com
ad5342.blogspot.com
ad53819.blogspot.com
ad62411.blogspot.com
ad66780.blogspot.com
ad69924.blogspot.com
ad75954.blogspot.com
ad79378.blogspot.com
ad81302.blogspot.com
ad84795.blogspot.com
ad90869.blogspot.com
ad94247.blogspot.com
ad95019.blogspot.com
asd412705.blogspot.com
asd412814.blogspot.com
asd413500.blogspot.com
asd415078.blogspot.com
asd415698.blogspot.com
asd417003.blogspot.com
asd41910.blogspot.com
asd421594.blogspot.com
asd425378.blogspot.com
asd425731.blogspot.com

Although the splogs above are mostly RSS feed based splogs he does have some splog like below as well as countless others that are what I'd classify as link splogs. They contain links to his own "made for AdSense" website to both draw traffic and to manipulate Google search results. He even uses a different AdSense account for his target sites. The AdSense ID on 1300+ splogs is pub-6546712460553017 and AdSense ID on his target page is pub-0720858052241313.

ad3232.blogspot.com
ad3563.blogspot.com
ad79378.blogspot.com
k15734.blogspot.com
k36357.blogspot.com
k51477.blogspot.com
k52008.blogspot.com
k72150.blogspot.com
k90978.blogspot.com
n67490.blogspot.com
oijk1477.blogspot.com
oijk25937.blogspot.com
r46032.blogspot.com
r53765.blogspot.com
r774.blogspot.com
r81543.blogspot.com

I think this AdSense spammer is sort of a litmus test going forward. Google was very quick to send a clear message that creating thousands of splogs with AdSense ads is not something that's tolerated. However I do wonder if Google is equally quick to ban AdSense account of his target webpage. Another words, will Google ban just one AdSense account or both? Here is a quote directly from the AdSense policy: "Do not participate in link schemes designed to increase your site's ranking or PageRank." Is creating hundreds or thousands of splogs be considered link scheme designed to increase site's ranking? I'm not an expert in how search engine works but I would think it is or at least an effort to manipulate search results. Here is another direct quote from AdSense policy: "In addition, publishers may not bring unnatural attention to sites displaying ads or referral buttons through unsolicited mass emails or unwanted advertisements on third-party websites." I think creating hundreds of blogs with links is indeed an unwanted advertisements on third-party websites to bring unnatural attention to a page. I'd say that's pretty clear violation of AdSense policy. I wonder if Google enforce this policy as currently stated. I sure hope I'm just preaching to the choir.

UPDATE (2/24/06 12:28am): Google has spoken. Google was quick to ban the AdSense account used for creating splogs however not for his own website the splogs were targetting. This essentially gives spammers a green light to create many splogs as they wish as long as the splog itself doesn't contain the AdSense ad. This begs the question of what Google would do if a same AdSense account was used for both the splogs and the target website. In fact I have a spammer that did just that.

UPDATE (2/28/2006 11:14pm) - I've underestimated the number of splogs this spammer created. I was looking at the incremental splog count instead of full splog count by this spammer. The full list as follows:

pub-6546712460553017.txt - 1554 splogs (32,085 bytes)

AdSense Spammer #2

2006-02-21T19:39:00.000-05:00

This one spammer has created more than 5900 splogs in Blogger. All of splogs have multiple AdSense ads and a Google search. They are nothing more than an RSS feed dumped into Blogger with absolutely no original content. Here are the first twenty splogs as a sample.

110155.blogspot.com
110170.blogspot.com
110417.blogspot.com
110501.blogspot.com
110688.blogspot.com
110699.blogspot.com
111054.blogspot.com
111095.blogspot.com
111302.blogspot.com
11135.blogspot.com
111551.blogspot.com
111731.blogspot.com
111837.blogspot.com
112144.blogspot.com
112420.blogspot.com
112422.blogspot.com
112562.blogspot.com
112718.blogspot.com
112772.blogspot.com
112794.blogspot.com

UPDATE (2/22/06 7:10pm): Google does it again! This spammer's AdSense account is toast. I'll keep posting AdSense spammers and hopefully Google keeps doing what they do. I have couple more hard core AdSense spammers as well as this one truely "pro" spammer with nearly 900 domains registered to his name supported by multiple AdSense accounts. That one is going to take some effort to dissect.

UPDATE (2/28/2006 11:19pm) - Here is the complete list of 5905 splogs.

pub-7250171464453961.txt 5905 splogs (120,911 bytes)

AdSense Spammer

2006-02-20T18:18:00.000-05:00

I found this one egregious spammer who created over 3000 splogs with nothing but an AdSense ad. Here are the first twenty just as a sample.

02wmvbbfreemovieru21d.blogspot.com
03wmvbbfreemovieta65r.blogspot.com
1002005bestmoviegi9s.blogspot.com
100bestbravohorrormoviela7k.blogspot.com
100besthorrormoviela82s.blogspot.com
100blogbookmovienewstopji33y.blogspot.com
100freemoviedownloadpi2h.blogspot.com
100freemovievo8r.blogspot.com
100homeequityloanlo37p.blogspot.com
100horrormovietopbo63g.blogspot.com
100movierentaltopni57k.blogspot.com
102005americabestfrommoviepo63n.blogspot.com
102005bestebertmovieroeperli41f.blogspot.com
102005bestmovietopbu24j.blogspot.com
102005bestmovievu100p.blogspot.com
102005boxmovieofficetoplu27m.blogspot.com
102005moviemovietopyahooba22b.blogspot.com
102005movietopworstta32b.blogspot.com
1031exchangefa87j.blogspot.com
10bestmovieof2005do55n.blogspot.com

Obviously this spammer is violationg both AdSense policy as well as the Blogger terms of service. I wonder if Google will simply delete these twenty splogs or will they actually do something about this spammer's AdSense account for change. The question is, what does a spammer have to do to get noticed by Google?

UPDATE (2/21/06 5:35pm): Yes! Google did the right thing and banned this spammer from AdSense. All the spologs have this white empty spot where AdSense ad used to be. One down and sixty two to go. I already found one other spammer that created even more splogs than this one. I'll be posting my findings later today and hopefully Google will do the same to him as well.

UPDATE (2/28/2006 11:24pm) - I've underestimated the number of splogs this spammer created. I was looking at the incremental splog count instead of full splog count by this spammer. The full list as follows:

pub-1775245184601633.txt - 3997 splogs (140,927 bytes)

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2006-02-15T15:01:00.000-05:00

It's been a while since I posted so here is an update on what's happening behind the scenes. I've been busy with splog fighting in many fronts but mostly analysis of collected data. So far my blog archive has grown to 1.3 million blog. My newly purchased 300 GB hard drive is about half full at the moment. My analysis script has identified about 275,000 blogs as splogs. The script currently identifies about 50% of new blogs created daily as splogs. I expect this percentage to eventually rise to about 70% when I implement two more layers of filtering. So far I've made pretty good progress at identifying splogs though mostly automated means.

There are couple things spammers are doing to makes their splogs tricky to detect. More and more I'm seeing hidden text and links in splog masked via CSS. Also I've noticed that some splogs that are completely disguised as a normal looking blog when seen through the browser yet when looking at the source it has a very different motives. Then again I've seen other splogs doing completely the opposite. The content of the splog is innocuous but the whole page has been overwritten by a JavaScript turning the blog into a splog. These spammers are getting much more sophisticated to allude detection. Currently I'm making efforts to counteract these anti-detection measure.

As expected splog situation is constantly in flux. Up till about a month ago majority of splogs being created were gambling and porn related. Now all of a sudden there is a huge surge in splogs funded by AdSense. To make matters worse Google has pretty much stopped shutting down spammer's AdSense account no matter what they do. I'm suddenly seeing thousands of splogs pointing to an AdSense plastered webpage with little or no real content. I'm starting to see some really heavyweight well funded spammers entering the splog fray. Few days ago I've identified one splogger who registered about 900 .com domains for the sole purpose of creating splogs funded by AdSense. When I report these situations to Google AdSense, the splogs gets deleted eventually but for some unknown reason Google doesn't do anything about the blatent AdSense policy violation. Google is simply looking the other way. I wonder if this has to do with Google not meeting the last quarterly wall street expectations. I'm beginning to seriously doubt whether Google is still sticking to it's corporate philosophy of "Do No Evil".

More Redirect Splogs

2006-01-25T02:55:00.000-05:00

It appears Google has actully deleted most of the 407 splogs I've submitted for deletion. Unfortunately this spammer isn't sitting on his hands while his splogs are being axed. But then again neither am I. I found 338 more splogs created by the same spammer. I have about 1000 more but I'm going to feed Google in digestible batches of splogs.

1800-flower-coupon.blogspot.com
2006-volkswagen-golf.blogspot.com
2nd-mortgage-company.blogspot.com
37mm-anti-tank-gun.blogspot.com
49-bingo-free-game.blogspot.com
aaa-insurance-co.blogspot.com
access-mortgage.blogspot.com
adult-web-cam-movie.blogspot.com
air-canada-travel.blogspot.com
air-fares-tickets.blogspot.com
air-flight-fares.blogspot.com
air-travel-quotes.blogspot.com
airfare-deals.blogspot.com
airfare-prices.blogspot.com
airforce-air-guns.blogspot.com
airgun-hunting.blogspot.com
airgun-letter.blogspot.com
airline-canada-job.blogspot.com
airline-cargo-job.blogspot.com
airline-cheap.blogspot.com
airline-china-com.blogspot.com
all-about-cigars.blogspot.com
aloha-flowers.blogspot.com
amateur-bedroom-cam.blogspot.com
amateur-home-web-cam.blogspot.com
amateur-lingerie.blogspot.com
amateur-live-cams.blogspot.com
american-handgun.blogspot.com
ams-student-loans.blogspot.com
antique-auto-museum.blogspot.com
antique-buddha.blogspot.com
antique-fabrics.blogspot.com
antique-farm-engines.blogspot.com
antique-fishing-rod.blogspot.com
antique-gun-auctions.blogspot.com
antivirus-definition.blogspot.com
apartment-rentals-dc.blogspot.com
apartments-4-rent.blogspot.com
apartments-athens.blogspot.com
apartments-baltimore.blogspot.com
arizona-gunrunner.blogspot.com
arrow-nail-gun.blogspot.com
asian-lingerie-tgp.blogspot.com
associated-skin-care.blogspot.com
atlanta-corps-in-job.blogspot.com
att-credit.blogspot.com
austin-job-search.blogspot.com
automotive-job-uk.blogspot.com
baby-and-shower.blogspot.com
baby-announcement.blogspot.com
baby-book-names.blogspot.com
baby-boomer-ages.blogspot.com
baby-boomer-pictures.blogspot.com
baby-bottle-washer.blogspot.com
baby-cart.blogspot.com
baby-furniture-ct.blogspot.com
baby-giveaways.blogspot.com
baby-holder.blogspot.com
baby-lulu-clothing.blogspot.com
baby-nursery-rhymes.blogspot.com
baby-scrap-books.blogspot.com
baby-shower-sayings.blogspot.com
babys-got-blue-eyes.blogspot.com
babysuper.blogspot.com
bakery-wedding-cakes.blogspot.com
banana-pajamas.blogspot.com
bancruptcy-lawyers.blogspot.com
bankruptcy-reform.blogspot.com
baseball-sun-glasses.blogspot.com
baylor-babies.blogspot.com
bc-cycling.blogspot.com
be-best-pay-day-loan-website.blogspot.com
be-brazil-phone-cards-visit.blogspot.com
be-crossroads-gun-show-webpage.blogspot.com
be-dreamcast-light-gun-website.blogspot.com
be-flowers-to-bombay-website.blogspot.com
be-gun-facts-webpage.blogspot.com
be-roulette-area.blogspot.com
be-roulette-strategien.blogspot.com
be-university-apartment-site.blogspot.com
be-wholesale-baby-items-site.blogspot.com
beanie-babies-value.blogspot.com
beanie-baby-bear.blogspot.com
beanie-baby-games.blogspot.com
beanie-baby-list.blogspot.com
beanie-baby-software.blogspot.com
becca-cosmetics.blogspot.com
bedcam.blogspot.com
best-baby-stroller.blogspot.com
best-ticket-prices.blogspot.com
bests-insurance-news.blogspot.com
big-baby-wear.blogspot.com
big-flower-press.blogspot.com
big-panties.blogspot.com
billard-light.blogspot.com
billiards-cue-sticks.blogspot.com
bingo-card-customize.blogspot.com
bingo-exotic.blogspot.com
bingo-hall-michigan.blogspot.com
black-corsets.blogspot.com
black-wedding-dress.blogspot.com
blog-scripts.blogspot.com
blue-song-airline.blogspot.com
boeing-airplane.blogspot.com
books-of-baby-names.blogspot.com
boston-baby-store.blogspot.com
boston-babydolls.blogspot.com
boston-babysitting.blogspot.com
boston-flower-mart.blogspot.com
boston-maine-airways.blogspot.com
boys-swimsuits.blogspot.com
brazil-air-travel.blogspot.com
brazil-plane-tickets.blogspot.com
britsh-airways.blogspot.com
brooklyn-flowers.blogspot.com
california-tobacco.blogspot.com
cam-pic-teen-web-xxx.blogspot.com
camera-film.blogspot.com
canada-airlines.blogspot.com
canada-in-job-salary.blogspot.com
canadian-in-job-usa.blogspot.com
canon-camera-reviews.blogspot.com
canon-d10-camera.blogspot.com
car-gps-system.blogspot.com
card-game-golf.blogspot.com
cards-baby-shower.blogspot.com
cell-phone-sim-card.blogspot.com
cheap-hawaii-flight.blogspot.com
cheap-ticket-china.blogspot.com
cheap-ticket-com.blogspot.com
china-life-insurance.blogspot.com
china-phone-card.blogspot.com
chocolate-cigar.blogspot.com
cigar-aficiando.blogspot.com
cigar-band.blogspot.com
cigar-storage.blogspot.com
civil-war-hand-guns.blogspot.com
coed-baby-shower.blogspot.com
computer-eyeglasses.blogspot.com
computer-virus-facts.blogspot.com
computer-virus-list.blogspot.com
corn-flower-blue.blogspot.com
corporate-antivirus.blogspot.com
cosmetics-limited.blogspot.com
cosmetics-plus.blogspot.com
creamed-panties.blogspot.com
credit-card-number.blogspot.com
credit-cards-deals.blogspot.com
credit-management.blogspot.com
crossman-gun.blogspot.com
ct-estate-real-remax.blogspot.com
cute-baby-names.blogspot.com
cute-babys.blogspot.com
cyber-babies.blogspot.com
cyberspace-roullette.blogspot.com
daewoo-bankrupt.blogspot.com
dallas-wedding-sites.blogspot.com
dan-wesson-guns.blogspot.com
dead-babys.blogspot.com
direct-loan-source.blogspot.com
discount-sun-glasses.blogspot.com
dita-glasses.blogspot.com
dr-brandt-skin-care.blogspot.com
eastmans-gun-show.blogspot.com
easyflowers.blogspot.com
electric-bb-gun.blogspot.com
enders-shotgun.blogspot.com
essex-home-mortgage.blogspot.com
euro-baby-carrier.blogspot.com
facts-on-sunflowers.blogspot.com
fat-babies.blogspot.com
fine-guns.blogspot.com
flight-to-europe.blogspot.com
flower-by-kenzo.blogspot.com
flower-care.blogspot.com
flower-stationary.blogspot.com
flower-trees.blogspot.com
flowers-and-gifts.blogspot.com
flowers-by-chagall.blogspot.com
flowers-by-post.blogspot.com
flowers-honolulu.blogspot.com
flowers-in-uk.blogspot.com
flowers-inc-ballons.blogspot.com
flowers-incorporated.blogspot.com
flowers-jpeg.blogspot.com
flowers-larkspur.blogspot.com
flowers-london-uk.blogspot.com
flowers-newton-ma.blogspot.com
flowers-of-hawaii.blogspot.com
flowers-stores.blogspot.com
flowers-sunnyvale.blogspot.com
flowers-tallahassee.blogspot.com
for-baby.blogspot.com
for-prepaid-phones.blogspot.com
gambleing-betting.blogspot.com
game-lottery-nj.blogspot.com
garmin-gps-3.blogspot.com
garmin-gps-430.blogspot.com
garmin-gps-download.blogspot.com
garmin-palm-gps.blogspot.com
golf-hawaii-oahu.blogspot.com
golf-store-hawaii.blogspot.com
golf-store-in-dallas.blogspot.com
golf-store-phoenix.blogspot.com
golf-swing-photo.blogspot.com
golf-swing-software.blogspot.com
golf-training-ring.blogspot.com
golf-video-machines.blogspot.com
golfer-vijay-singh.blogspot.com
great-wedding-gift.blogspot.com
gun-kote.blogspot.com
gun-movies.blogspot.com
gun-owners-america.blogspot.com
gun-ownership.blogspot.com
high-interest-loans.blogspot.com
hill-valley-golfclub.blogspot.com
hippo-golf-clubs.blogspot.com
home-equity-loan-125.blogspot.com
home-loan-bank.blogspot.com
home-loan-qualifier.blogspot.com
ideas-baby-shower.blogspot.com
indiana-wildflowers.blogspot.com
innervoice-babygirl.blogspot.com
irvine-flowers.blogspot.com
italian-baby.blogspot.com
jackpot-local.blogspot.com
jackpot-lodging-nv.blogspot.com
job-in-plano-texas.blogspot.com
job-job-training.blogspot.com
job-legal-site-web.blogspot.com
job-search-usa.blogspot.com
job-search-web-site.blogspot.com
job-site-box.blogspot.com
john-lennon-baby.blogspot.com
johnson-baby.blogspot.com
kansas-real-estatel.blogspot.com
leonardo-da-vinchi.blogspot.com
loan-auto-calculator.blogspot.com
loan-stafford-status.blogspot.com
london-flight.blogspot.com
lynx-ridge-golf-club.blogspot.com
madison-flower-shops.blogspot.com
maui-flowers.blogspot.com
mc-affe-virus-scan.blogspot.com
melex-golf-cart-seat.blogspot.com
mothers-day-flower.blogspot.com
my-21-black-free-jack.blogspot.com
my-adult-live-webcams.blogspot.com
my-apartments-in-la-webpage.blogspot.com
my-baby-comforter-set.blogspot.com
my-baby-names-top-area.blogspot.com
my-babytoys.blogspot.com
my-backyard-smoker-area.blogspot.com
my-bankrupcy-attorney-visit.blogspot.com
my-beach-glass.blogspot.com
my-birthflowers.blogspot.com
my-galleries-lingerie.blogspot.com
my-garmin-gps-75-visit.blogspot.com
my-home-title-insurance.blogspot.com
my-mac-online-poker.blogspot.com
my-recipe-summer-squash.blogspot.com
my-www-antivirus-webpage.blogspot.com
news-airlines.blogspot.com
of-russian-roulette.blogspot.com
online-air-ticket.blogspot.com
online-used-car-loan.blogspot.com
oversize-golf-driver.blogspot.com
pga-golf-tour-2005.blogspot.com
press-flowers.blogspot.com
ram-golf-club-review.blogspot.com
ram-golf-equipment.blogspot.com
real-estate-addison.blogspot.com
real-estate-agencyl.blogspot.com
real-estate-crowdl.blogspot.com
red-barn-antiques.blogspot.com
rent-paris-apartment.blogspot.com
salie-mae-loans.blogspot.com
sawgrass-golf-course.blogspot.com
scotland-golf-trip.blogspot.com
seattle-squash.blogspot.com
see-antique-baby.blogspot.com
see-apartments-in-mi-webpage.blogspot.com
see-bingo-create-area.blogspot.com
see-bingo-deposit.blogspot.com
see-bingo-seattle-homepage.blogspot.com
see-cam-live-porn-teen-webpage.blogspot.com
see-canadian-phone-card-area.blogspot.com
see-east-west-mortgage.blogspot.com
see-flowers-by-liz-site.blogspot.com
see-flowers-ma-webpage.blogspot.com
see-gamble.blogspot.com
see-hawaii-golf-kapalua-visit.blogspot.com
see-naming-babies-homepage.blogspot.com
see-roulette-casino-play.blogspot.com
see-ship-mayflower-site.blogspot.com
see-the-appartment.blogspot.com
see-upskirt-no-panties-visit.blogspot.com
send-flowers-by-mail.blogspot.com
send-flowers-to-iran.blogspot.com
send-flowers-to-uk.blogspot.com
sexy-golf-picture.blogspot.com
shop-flowers.blogspot.com
shopping-for-flowers.blogspot.com
small-unsecured-loan.blogspot.com
stove-top-smoker.blogspot.com
student-car-loan.blogspot.com
student-loan-center.blogspot.com
taylor-made-golf.blogspot.com
the-air-charter-flights.blogspot.com
the-apartment-showcase.blogspot.com
the-baby-toile-site.blogspot.com
the-best-paper-airplane-visit.blogspot.com
the-bingo-daubers-mini.blogspot.com
the-black-bikini-models.blogspot.com
the-computer-virus-jokes-webpage.blogspot.com
the-credit-card-machines.blogspot.com
the-ct-flower-show.blogspot.com
the-equity-line-credit-visit.blogspot.com
the-eye-glass-chain-visit.blogspot.com
the-eyeglasses-by-mail-homepage.blogspot.com
the-flowers-palm-springs-homepage.blogspot.com
the-manor-apartments.blogspot.com
the-roulette-wheel.blogspot.com
the-tgv-atlantique-homepage.blogspot.com
the-tiger-woods-pga-golf-webpage.blogspot.com
titleist-golf-ball.blogspot.com
titleist-golf-putter.blogspot.com
valhalla-golf-logo.blogspot.com
virtual-golf-game.blogspot.com
virus-scan-7.blogspot.com
volkswagen-golf-4.blogspot.com
vw-golf-tdi.blogspot.com
water-bra-swimsuit.blogspot.com
wet-lingerie.blogspot.com
women-in-wet-panties.blogspot.com
world-no-tobacco-day.blogspot.com
xxxlive.blogspot.com
young-boys-underwear.blogspot.com

List of Redirect Splogs

2006-01-12T07:41:00.000-05:00

I've managed to extract a list of redirect splogs I mentioned on my privious post. These are splogs that simply redirect to a spam target website immediately when you visit them. From the looks it's obvious they are created by one spammmer. I've submitted 407 of them yesterday to Blogger support but they haven't done anything yet. Now the list has grown to 515 splogs.

1-game-jackpot.blogspot.com
2006-volkswagen-golf.blogspot.com
2nd-mortgage-company.blogspot.com
37mm-anti-tank-gun.blogspot.com
49-bingo-free-game.blogspot.com
80-20-home-loans.blogspot.com
a-car-insurance.blogspot.com
ace-billiards.blogspot.com
adult-bikinis.blogspot.com
adult-sex-live-show.blogspot.com
adult-web-cam-movie.blogspot.com
air-canada-travel.blogspot.com
air-fare-low-cost.blogspot.com
air-fares-tickets.blogspot.com
air-flight-fares.blogspot.com
air-ticket-price.blogspot.com
air-travel-children.blogspot.com
air-travel-coupons.blogspot.com
air-travel-delays.blogspot.com
air-travel-distances.blogspot.com
air-travel-fare.blogspot.com
air-travel-guide.blogspot.com
air-travel-in-europe.blogspot.com
air-travel-infants.blogspot.com
air-travel-news.blogspot.com
air-travel-pregnancy.blogspot.com
airfair-tickets.blogspot.com
airline-career-delta.blogspot.com
airline-deals.blogspot.com
airline-largest-us.blogspot.com
airline-special.blogspot.com
airline-stock-virgin.blogspot.com
alabama-apartments.blogspot.com
alameda-apartment.blogspot.com
allwebcams.blogspot.com
almost-nude-lingerie.blogspot.com
aloha-flowers.blogspot.com
amateur-foot-job.blogspot.com
amateur-free-webcams.blogspot.com
amateur-lingerie.blogspot.com
anti-virus-avg.blogspot.com
anti-virus-computer.blogspot.com
antique-alarm-clock.blogspot.com
antique-auto-museum.blogspot.com
antique-bible.blogspot.com
antique-brass-lamp.blogspot.com
antique-business.blogspot.com
antique-cabins.blogspot.com
antique-car-rental.blogspot.com
antique-clock-faces.blogspot.com
antique-door-latches.blogspot.com
antique-electronic.blogspot.com
antique-end-tables.blogspot.com
antique-engines.blogspot.com
antique-entry-doors.blogspot.com
antique-faucet.blogspot.com
antique-finder.blogspot.com
antique-firearms.blogspot.com
antique-ford.blogspot.com
antique-green-glass.blogspot.com
antique-milk-bottles.blogspot.com
antique-rca-radios.blogspot.com
antique-research.blogspot.com
antique-shops.blogspot.com
antique-sinks.blogspot.com
antique-style-rings.blogspot.com
antique-truck-photos.blogspot.com
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Returning After a Long Break

2005-12-28T14:45:00.000-05:00

I've taken some time off from fighting splogs but now I'm slowly resuming operations. I've been catching up on accumulated splog analysis and I'm about 75% complete after two straight days of script runs. My raw data is now taking up approximately 50 GB and growing at a rate of 300 MB per day. I'm in the middle of some hardware upgrade to handle this growth. Unfortunately one of my file server took a dive in a shallow end of the pool last week and I'll have somehow manage without it.

Not surprisingly splog situation has not improved. Now I'm seeing some annoying redirect splogs that take you right to some gambling site. Adding "127.0.0.1 www.webs-search.com" to /etc/hosts or c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file will stop this annoyance for now. I'll be going after these guys very soon.

Yes. I'm back.

Current Status

2005-11-23T06:30:00.000-05:00

It's been a while since I posted anything and that's because I haven't had much to report. Google has effectively stopped deleting splogs I report. Although what that means is to going back to targetting AdSense account of spammers even though that's not entirely correct. I haven't been reporting any of results but I've been targetting AdSense accounts all along. I've had handfull of successes during the past two months.

Splog landscape has changed quite a bit since this blog began. I would say that now there are quite a number of splogs that doesn't depend on AdSense at all. For example all the porn and gambling related splogs are not tied to AdSense. The new trend I've also observed is where splogs are being promoted with an email spam. I've gotten couple email spams that point to blogspot.com subdomain.

The number of splog dropped quite a bit immediately after Blogger's implementation of captcha on spammy blogs. The Blogger's captcha does work to thwart certain blog spammers but not all. The reason is the spammers are no longer interested in creating splogs and maintaining them. They are simply going to create splogs and dumping them. Essentially they are creating disposable one time use splogs. It really doesn't matter if Blogger identifies them to be splog. Spammers have already moved onto to create more splogs. Anyway since the sharp drop in splogs, the numbers are starting to creep back up since Google isn't deleting splogs. This recent lack of action by Google encourages spammers and now it appears they are making a comeback.

1647 Splogs Deleted

2005-11-09T22:57:00.000-05:00

After four days of zero splogs deleted by Google, they've resumed deleting splogs. I've actually reported about twice the number of splogs but apparently this is the best Google can do today. We'll see what happens tommorow.

1519 Splogs Deleted

2005-11-09T22:53:00.000-05:00

This is yet another belated report of splogs deleted on last Wednesday. This ends the week's total splog deletion count at 3294 which is quite dismal compared to weeks prior. It appears Google has slowed down their rate of splog deletion as of last Wednesday. No deleted splogs for Thursday, Friday, Monday and Tuesday.

657 Splogs Deleted

2005-11-05T13:53:00.000-05:00

This is a belated reporting of splogs deleted for this Tuesday. The number is low because I've been trying out a different tactic.

1118 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-31T19:54:00.000-05:00

Today's deleted splog count is 1118. Splog deletion numbers will most likely jump up and down all week as expected. I don't have any hard numbers but just looking at the trend the new splog creation has slowed down somewhat since last week. I believe this has lot to do with Google's new captcha barrier they rolled out last week.

1521 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-29T08:55:00.000-04:00

To end the week, Google deleted 1521 splogs. The total for this week is 13738, an average of 2747.6 per day. I believe the tactics I am applying is actually working. I've essentially forced spammers to go through lot more hoops thus increasing their basic "cost" of spamming on their end by several times. Although I can't go into detail, I plan to once again double or triple their "cost". This coming weeks my daily numbers may actually drop considerbly but that's actually part of the plan.

3044 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-28T07:03:00.000-04:00

3044 splogs have been deleted for Thursday. I've already met my 2000 splog deletions per day goal for this week with one more day to go.

5860 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-26T16:17:00.000-04:00

So much for easing off on number of splogs being reported to Google. I believe today's count is the personal record for the number of splogs reported and deleted in a single day since I began this blog.

Two Wrongs Don't Make Right

2005-10-26T07:01:00.000-04:00

Today I've heard an idea by Mitch Ratcliffe to combat the splog issue. This is by far the most idiotic idea I've heard to date. He proposes a massive AdSense click fraud in effort to punish Google and AdWords advertisers. He thinks it's good idea to essentially punish advertisers financially so that Google is forced to fix blogspot. Of course he doesn't metion how exactly Google would fix the splog problem. Also he even admits that this will put money into spammer's pockets. I just don't understand how rewarding spammers thus encouraging them to create even more splogs will actually help the situation. This kind of rally for vigilante action is really unhelpful and extremely counterproductive. In general I believe this sort of end justifies the means way of thinking is quite flawed in more ways than one. I can only hope that people don't stoop to the level of spammers in effort to beat them.

Update: As usual Joe has written a very well written blog post regarding Mitch's idea. There is also some discussion brewing at FightSplog.com.

More Update: Mitch replies to many criticisms he drew over his idea. He continues to assert that what he is proposing isn't a click fraud just because his motives are to make a "political action". I suppose with his same line of reasoning, it's perfectly ethical to launch a denial of service attack on a spammer or in this case advertisers and Google as long as the motive behind the act is to make a political statement. I just can't understand how someone can justify causing harm to innocent third party just to make a political statement based on some twisted notion of vigilante justice.

3313 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-25T15:02:00.000-04:00

Today was an odd and confusing day because I thought Google completely ignored yesterday's batch of splog reports but apparently they deleted some of them today as well as some from today's reports but certainly not all of them. It looks like they are bit backed up from the weekend's support emails and they are barely keeping up with amount of splog reports I'm submitting. I guess I'll ease off just a bit for them to catch up.

4364 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-21T22:35:00.000-04:00

Google deleted 4364 splogs I've reported. For some reason Google just ignored a batch of 500 splogs I've submitted so I'll have to resubmit them on Monday. The total number of splogs deleted for this week is 11976. The average number of splogs deleted this week is 2395.2 per day so I've exceeded my goals for this week by 20%.

3293 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-20T15:09:00.000-04:00

I would say that today was a good day. There are 3293 less splogs in the world. Google actually deleted 100% of the splogs I've reported. Although I can't go into specifics of what I'm doing exactly but what I can say is that I'm targeting specific kind of spammers in effort to change their routine and thus making it harder for them to be prolific. It will take some time but eventually I think they will be quite frustrated with how they have to go about generating splogs.

1587 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-19T23:45:00.000-04:00

I was quite disappointed to see that I didn't get any confirmation email from Google regarding my daily batch of splogs I reported but it turns out they were still deleting them. They simply didn't send me any email. It appears they actually deleted all reported splogs except nine splogs. I guess they just missed them. Anyway, I'm off to send out more splog reports to Google. I realize I'm quite behind my goal of 2000 splog deletions per day so I'm going to try harder and see if I can catch up to that goal tommorow.

Splog Expansion

2005-10-19T07:02:00.000-04:00

Until now, every splog I came across were of english language. Today was first time I came across some non-english language splogs. I saw a Brazillian porn splog for the first time as well as some spanish language splogs. It was somewhat confusing at first because it was almost automatic for me to skip over all non-english blogs during my visual examination. Although it's not a big surprise but it appears splogs have finally gone international.

On a related note Russia has eclipsed UK and is now a distant second in source of splog while US still holds the lead on number of splogs being produced by wide margin. As an example, splog such as this one has image links pointing to a .ru domain with a unique identifier just like your typical email spam. As expected the traditional email spammers have caught onto the new blog spam as just an alternate medium to spread their junk. I expect to see lot more nasty stuff in the near future as web pages provide vastly more possibilities for abuse. I'll write more extensively about what may be ahead of us on another post.

Yet another trend I'm starting to see is spammers are starting to spread their splogs to other blog providers. For example these two splogs and many more were created by one spammer:

http://translationservices4u.blogspot.com/
http://sm-select1-1.blogspot.com/

The reason why I know this is because on translationservices4u.blogspot.com splog, there are links like this to splogs hosted on msn spaces:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/sm-select-6/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/sm-select-44/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/sm-select-91/
http://spaces.msn.com/members/sm-select-92/

He started out on blogspot but now he has created splogs on msn spaces and he is cross linking them.

There are other examples of this across other blog service provider. This particular splog exists on blogspot:

http://healthychineserecipe.blogspot.com/

This splog has links to typepad:

http://dreamretirement.typepad.com/save_money_on_gas/
http://dreamretirement.typepad.com/healthy_eating/

Perhaps I wasn't paying close attention to this but this is pretty new to me. It appears spammers are starting to diversify their spamming activities across multiple blog providers. The optimistic part of me is thinking perhaps this is a sign that they are starting to feel the squeeze by Blogger and they decided to move elsewhere. But then I'm guessing this is somehow a better means to trick Google to rank these pages higher since links are going to and coming from a different domain.

Clearly the splog problem is evolving beyond the scope of one organization's control. Some level of cooperation and communication between everyone in blogosphere is required to combat this problem effectively. I'm still quite cynical on this. I just have hard time imagining Google and Microsoft openly sharing information to address this problem to their mutual benefit.

Update: Here is a spammer who created five splogs. Do you know what language it is in? I didn't either but after little bit of digging I figured it out. I'll post the answer tommorow.

Update: Those five splogs originated from Prague, Czech Republic.

Google's New Captcha Barrier

2005-10-18T20:37:00.000-04:00

To my surprise Google has actually done something about the current splog issue. They've implemented a new captcha barrier to suspecting splogs during a blog post. Although this is a step in the right direction, it may be too little too late. If they are determining which blog is a splog by the same algorithm to weed out splogs from Next Blog button ring, then this new captcha barrier does nothing for splogs that have already beaten the initial barrier. There are still quite a number of splogs including rather obscene porn splogs still showing up on Next Blog ring as I'm writing this. Having said all this I'm going to reserve my judgement and see how much impact this will have on growth of splogs. It's only been hours since this new barrier was instituted so once again I'll give Google the benefit of the doubt.

1736 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-18T18:49:00.000-04:00

Today's effort resulted in 1736 splogs being deleted. Google seems to have selectively ignored about one fifth of my splog reports for some unknown reason. I'll try to resubmit the ignored splogs along with 5000+ ignored splogs from last Friday.

Google Responds to Splog Issue

2005-10-18T05:48:00.000-04:00

Google has publically responded to the current splog issue. Actually they haven't done anything but to make a statement on the problem at hand. Only thing they've done that's different than two days ago is to publish a list of deleted subdomins. Of course that doesn't do anything to prevent or deter splogs. As I read what Google had to say, I can't help but feel unsatisfied with it. Obviously this splog problem has reached some level of critical mass and it was something that they can no longer ignore or sweep it under a rug as they've been doing all this long. I get the impression that this statement was more of a public relations move in trying to show that they understand the scope of the problem. However the words they've used are very wishy-washy and they've failed to convince me that they are taking serious measure to address the problem head on. I quote, "We can also make it more difficult for suspected spammers to create content." This is far different than stating that they are planning to do just that. I think it's long overdue for some real actions on the part of Google to do something. It's pretty clear the Flag as Objectionable button doesn't work and it has failed miserably. Depending on time of day there is just as many splogs in Next Blog ring as before flagging was implemented. Well, it does works great as a placebo but not much else. I think Google's response is yet another placebo to calm people down yet it lacks any real substance for me to be satisfied.

In the mean time I will back up my harsh criticisms of late with whatever I can do to help the situation. I will be submitting thousands of splogs in coming days for Google to delete.

996 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-17T20:41:00.000-04:00

As I've noted on my last entry about 5000 reported splogs to Google has gone unanswered and now I assume they were simply ignored and discarded. Despite this lack of response I have not given up. I've still reported more splogs to Google and it appears they've responded. They deleted 996 splogs today. It isn't much but it's still better than nothing.

Splogs Reach Critical Mass?

2005-10-17T18:24:00.000-04:00

With the exception of Mark Cuban and maybe Doc Searls, just about every high profile bloggers have been largely ignoring splog problem or at least haven't commented about the problem. Today is first day when many of them spoke out against it and urged Google to do something about it. IceRocket has even stopped indexing blogspot blogs for time being. Why did it seem like everyone took notice of splog problem all at once? It was because of one spammer. It appears this one blog spammer went bit overboard on Sunday and created tens of thousands of splogs all by himself. There was a definite spike in number of splogs on Sunday since early morning. He created splogs that were equivalent to about three times the daily average of all splogs being created per day. He essentially buried all all blogs and all other splogs with his massive number of splog. Also his splogs were designed to avoid Next Blog button ring filter so about half the day his splogs were only thing showing up on Next Blog button.

I wonder if Google will finally do something about splog problem now. Honestly I really doubt it and here is the reason why. Currently Google makes money whenever spammers makes money. They get a cut of the money whenever money flows from advertisers to publishers. No splogs, no money. It's that simple. Also having all these splogs clogging up blogspot and more importantly search engines actually help Google. For small search engines like IceRocket or Technorati, splogs are big problem since it will take up alot of resource to filter them out. For Google they have the money and the resource so it's not such a big deal. Having these splogs hurts the little search engines lot more than Google.

I've had these very cynical view of Google with regards to splogs for some time now but I gave them the benefit of the doubt so far. But when Google created Blog Search it started to make sense. I do believe that this splog problem will grow to the point where even Google has no choice but to simply remove blogspot and perhaps other blogs from the main Google search index. I see Google's Blog Search as a eventual dumping ground of all blogs which is essentially ghettofying the blogosphere. I sure hope it doesn't come to that but when my report of over 5000 splogs are simply being ignored by Blogger support, I can't help but to think this is inevitable. It's only matter of time.

If anyone wants the list of splogs created yesterday by that one spammer please feel to email me at fightsplog@gmail.com.

2529 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-13T17:39:00.000-04:00

Today's effort in fighting splog resulted in deletion of 2529 splogs. I believe I can sustain a rate of 2000 or more splogs being deleted daily for the next two weeks. Afterwards I will be making some adjustments to how I target splogs and spammers who create them.

697 Splogs Deleted

2005-10-12T21:55:00.000-04:00

Today I've been able to shut down 697 splogs by reporting them to Google. I've quadrupled my efforts tonight and if Google removes every one of the reported splogs there should be several thousand less splogs in the world tommorow.

I've been tweaking my set of splog processing scripts and it's finding massive number of splogs with much greater efficiency. Perhaps it's working little too well because it found more than 18000 gambling related splogs. About three weeks ago I've reported a mixed batch of about 2000 splogs but most of them weren't deleted. I think Google support staff freaked over the size of the list and decided to simply ignore it. I found out today the trick to get Google to delete these splogs is to report them in a small convenient chunks. Trying to figure out how I can separate out 18000 splogs into some logical chunks is actually harder than finding the splogs in the first place.

Is Google Listening?

2005-10-07T15:19:00.000-04:00

Apparently googling "blogburner" no longer shows Rick Butts' spamming software in blue sponsored links on top of search result. I started to wonder if Google actually stopped doing business with this spammer but after some digging it turns out that was not the case. Googling for "articleburner" will reveal his other spamming tool still being advertised. Perhaps Rick Butts has voluntarily pulled his advertisement off of Google. Then again maybe Google is one who removed the sponsored link but then how come they left his other spam tools? Did Rick Butts have multiple AdWords accounts and Google just happen to miss it? Perhaps Google has a problem with blogburner but not articleburner and therefore decided to keep Rick Butts as a advertiser despite the fact that he is still a spammer? I don't think I'll ever know for sure what happened. I have yet to get a clear indication as to where Google currently stands with regards to spammers on Blogspot, AdWords, and AdSense.

Speaking of Google doing business with spammers, if you google for "rss2blog", you'll see more advertisements of spamming softwares. rss2blog is a software that allows anyone to just dump rss feeds into blogspot blog in masses. This software tends to create splogs which has a predictable pattern of a link and a block of text below and this tends to bypass the recently implemented splog filter from Next Blog button ring.

Google was very quick to remove all 2763 porn related splogs I've sumbitted days earlier. Having said that I'm not entirely certain if I had anything to do with it. I never received the semi human/machine generated email telling me that they've received my email. That confirmation email tends to somewhat funny as well as bit annoying since it recommends that I use "Flagging as Objectionable" feature. I can't imagine me or anyone visiting thousands of splogs and clicking on flag button.

Update: I did eventually get a confirmation email from Blogger support.

Stupid Spammer

2005-10-06T16:11:00.000-04:00

Apparently the spammer who created those 2763 porn related splogs isn't very smart. He left his web front end to his spamming tool wide open for public. Also it appears he is a Russian which I didn't know. www.oocasino.info is where his web front end is accessible.

Update: The spammer finally figured out that people were going into his web front end and started messing with it so he put up an authentication. It doesn't really matter because Google deleted all his splogs.

Current Status

2005-10-05T05:10:00.000-04:00

My current list of splogs has jumped to 7520 entries. I am still accumulating blogspot blogs at a steady pace. I have more then 232,000 blogs archived which is about 28GB of raw data that will need to be parsed and analyzed. By my rough estimate between half to two thirds of those blogs are splogs. I began noticing some trends regarding the growth of splogs recently. About a month ago blog spammers were mostly small timers trying to generate traffic and make money by AdSense ad clicks. It has slowly attracted more serious professional spammers with their refined skills to thwart filters and javascript driven dynamically generated links. Now I'm seeing splogs with links to some site in Russia with unique identifier in links just like your email spam. I guess what they say is true. When you have one broken window you have to fix them as quickly as possible. If you don't you end up with whole lot of broken windows. They tend to spread like a wildfire. By tolerating the squalor, it become the norm. Right now blog space is quickly turning into a slum of the internet. Google needs to take drastic action soon and hopefully before it's too late.

2763 Splogs

2005-10-05T03:04:00.000-04:00

I just reported a set of 2763 porn related splogs created by one spammer. Here are the first ten splogs as a sample:

00-free-adult-1i.blogspot.com
100-ameture-web-2k.blogspot.com
100-free-adult-1e.blogspot.com
100-free-adult-3p.blogspot.com
100-free-adult-4c.blogspot.com
100-free-adult-7a.blogspot.com
100-free-adult-8s.blogspot.com
100-free-adult-8t.blogspot.com
100-free-live-5z.blogspot.com
100-free-live-7p.blogspot.com

My Recommendations for Google

2005-09-29T18:21:00.000-04:00

Most of these applies specifically to Google but few does apply to other blog service providers as well.

1. Advertisers and online marketing companies should stop doing business with spammers. The motivations behind blog spammers are no different than any other spammers. It's all about money. If you reduce the money for spammers you reduce the spam. Google needs to be much more proactive on this front. I don't believe that Google is doing enough to cut the funding of AdSense revenue to spammers. From my experience Google hasn't shut down many AdSense accounts of spammers. There is another side of this as well. Google is currently letting spammers advertise their blog spamming software via AdWord. Just google for "blogburner" and you'll see that Rick Butts' blog spamming software is being advertised through Google's AdWord. I think it's about time Google makes it's position clear on where they stand when it comes to blog spam.

2. Blogger could put limits on various activities. If the limit is high enough it should not affect the blogging activity of normal or even highly active bloggers but it should prevent spammers from going about their daily spamming.

Limit on number of account a person can create in one day
Limit on number of blogs a person can create in one day
Limit on number of blogs a person can create per account
Limit on number of blog posts in one day
Limit on number of comments in one day

3. Put a timed moritorium on newly created blogs. Make it so that newly created blogs will not be indexed by search engines or show up on Next Blog ring for the first 30 days or whatever the approprite time may be. This will be enough to identify and delete spam blogs before it sees the light of day and do anything to pollute the search indexes. Currently a spammer can create dozens if not hundreds of blogs and they will just show up on Next Blog ring and get indexed immediately. This sort of immediate gratification is what needs to be addressed. Spammers are by nature not patient. They are out to make a quick and easy buck and slowing them down should frustrate them enough to make most of them go away.

4. Template tampering prevention is needed. Spammers are working around the Blogger's metatags by stripping the <$BlogMetaData$> tag from template and replacing it with their own metatags tricking search engines to index and crawl their spam blogs. This sort of tampering is well documented here. It should be very simple to put a check in the system to prevent such a tampering.

5. "Mark this comment as spam" feature is needed. This is analogous to the flagging feature but applies to individual comment. The information gathered from this kind of feature can make current antispam measures more effective and less intrusive. The current implementation of word verification feature to block comment spam has a serious problem with visually impaired users and I think most bloggers aren't aware of it's implications. I believe there is a smarter method that can solve these two problems at once. Instead of a word verification being all or nothing, it can be applied only when it's necessary. There is already a one pattern that exists for just about every comment spam. Every comment spam I've seen has a link to get user to click on them. A server can keep track of comments with links as well as comment flagging numbers to apply a word verification for suspecious spam comment. For example when there is lot of comment being flagged as spam and if those comments have link to some domain like buyfakewatches.info then word verification would kick in. There are other potentially effective means of curbing comment spam that can be implemented when data collection is in place. If a Blogger user is flagged as making numerous number of comment spam then they can be throttled down to not allow comment for set number of time. Perhaps a combining the ideas with #2 word verification is mandatory for newly created accounts. I'm sure there are plenty of other technical means to curb comment spams and they should be discussed further.

Ultimately spammers are depending on their ability to create mass number of accounts, blogs and comments. There are technical means to hinder this unrestricted creation of junk. Unlike email Google does have full control over their own infrastructure and therefore I believe blog spammer's days are numbered.

Current Status

2005-09-28T03:52:00.000-04:00

Returning from a short vacation of sort I see that my trusty script has spidered over 120,000 blogspot blog pages while I was gone. The total number of blogs I need to sift through now stands at over 180,000 pages totaling about 15 GB of raw data. My useful little perl script that extracted links from html is no longer all that useful anymore. It used to take about a minute to process 2000 pages but now that I'm dealing with data size much larger I'll need to figure out more efficient means to process all this data at greater speed.

Scope of the Splog Problem

2005-09-20T15:12:00.000-04:00

I've been monitoring and processing about 27000 blogs daily looking for splogs and it appears at least 15000 new splogs are being created daily give or take a thousand. Of course this is only from blogspot and I haven't even begun to identify splogs in other free blog services. The problem of splog is bigger than I imagined and it's growing at a rapid pace. The problem does need immediate attention from various industry leaders like Google and Yahoo to address this problem head on. Hopefully something will come out of the second web spam summit hosted by Technorati.

Lost and Found

2005-09-16T02:04:00.000-04:00

Recently I've seen the number of visible splogs recede like a tide. Even though they are trying to make a comeback to next blog ring it is no where visible like it once was. I began wondering where they were. Did spammers just give up? I didn't think so. After poking around I found a way to efficiently retrieve a list of potential splogs and it's huge. It's much larger than I ever expected. Currently I have a list of 22000 blogs and from my rough estimate about 15000 of them are splogs. I've been able to definitively confirm only about thousand of them today. Obviously I will be exploring various ways to identify splogs. The growth rate of splog count is not yet known since today was the first day I've taken advantage of this new information source. As a result of this my list has suddenly jumped to 3021 splogs.

2085 Splogs

2005-09-14T14:14:00.000-04:00

I've submitted my list of 2085 splogs to Blogger for their review and hopefully prompt removal. We'll see if this will bring up the number of splogs being deleted daily.

Post Flag Day Status

2005-09-11T21:32:00.000-04:00

Splog flag day came and went without much hoopla. I don't know how many people have participated and it's effectiveness is not apparent as of yet. Blogger doesn't automatically remove splogs from next button ring so obviously we're not going to see the result for few days. What I have noticed however is it seems like there is more splogs in next button ring. It looks as though spammers have stepped up their spamming activities and figured out Blogger's filtering heuristics. I'm actually bit surprised by this because I thought their primary motivation for creating splog was to be indexed by search engines and they can achive that goal regardless of being in the next button ring. I may have thought this wrong. Maybe they do need to be visible because Google is doing a better job at ignoring the spammer's obvious attempt at PageRank manipulation. Anyway as result of splogs being more visible on next button ring my splog list have grown by about 500 during the three days. It now stands at 1867 as of this writing. Sadly Blogger has deleted only nine splogs on Friday.

Something I have not really thought about came to my attention as of today. About three weeks ago Blogger implemented the word verification or also known as captcha feature to prevent comment spamming on blogs. To me this seems like a pretty good idea for preventing spams since most comment spammers are done by automated programs. Now I see how this has an unintended consequence of preventing blinds from using blogs. Here is a blog by a blind person voicing his opinion about word verification requirement during creation of blog back in April. Obviously things have gotten even worse for this guy since Blogger added comment word verification feature. I see this as a very bad thing. Blind bloggers are now cut off because of spammers. Becaus of this, I have decided to turn off word verification on comments and urge others to do the same. I imagine I will get spammed now but that's ok. I will turn this into my advantage. This blog will serve as a honeypot of sort to collect more information about spammers.

Flag Day Tommorow

2005-09-09T11:43:00.000-04:00

I've just posted a list of 350 splogs on flag day wiki for all to see and flag if they wish. Having done that I have some doubt as to whether flagging actually works. Somthing I've observed lately is that Google doesn't seem to be deleting splogs based on high flagging. I think others have noticed as well. I think Blogger is using flag information to fine tune their splog identification heuristics to filter out splogs from their next blog button ring but that's about it. They are not deleting the blogs that they've identified as splogs for some unknown reason. At the same time I've noticed that splogs I've listed on this blog are all gone. I don't know if Google is looking at this blog or if others have taken the list and submitted them to Google for removal. I guess I'll wait and see what Google will do with all the new flags tommorow. Will they remove all the splogs as they should?

Case #14 - e5y3461.blogspot.com and more

2005-09-06T03:02:00.000-04:00

I've been working on some perl and shell scripts to identify and extract data from splogs. This is the first fruit of my labor. Here is a list of 85 splogs which all point to a domain talk-stuff.com. The total number of links pointing to this domain is whopping 60098. That's right, it's over 60 thousand links to one domain! Obviously this guy is really trying to pump up his page ranks on Google.

e5y3461.blogspot.com
e5y34610.blogspot.com
e5y34611.blogspot.com
e5y34612.blogspot.com
e5y34613.blogspot.com
e5y34614.blogspot.com
e5y34615.blogspot.com
e5y34616.blogspot.com
e5y34617.blogspot.com
e5y34618.blogspot.com
e5y34619.blogspot.com
e5y3462.blogspot.com
e5y34620.blogspot.com
e5y3463.blogspot.com
e5y3464.blogspot.com
e5y3465.blogspot.com
e5y3466.blogspot.com
e5y3467.blogspot.com
e5y3468.blogspot.com
e5y3469.blogspot.com
h435yt1.blogspot.com
h435yt10.blogspot.com
h435yt11.blogspot.com
h435yt12.blogspot.com
h435yt13.blogspot.com
h435yt14.blogspot.com
h435yt15.blogspot.com
h435yt16.blogspot.com
h435yt17.blogspot.com
h435yt18.blogspot.com
h435yt19.blogspot.com
h435yt2.blogspot.com
h435yt20.blogspot.com
h435yt3.blogspot.com
h435yt4.blogspot.com
h435yt5.blogspot.com
h435yt6.blogspot.com
h435yt7.blogspot.com
h435yt8.blogspot.com
h435yt9.blogspot.com
hudfghdf1.blogspot.com
hudfghdf10.blogspot.com
hudfghdf2.blogspot.com
hudfghdf3.blogspot.com
hudfghdf4.blogspot.com
hudfghdf5.blogspot.com
hudfghdf6.blogspot.com
hudfghdf7.blogspot.com
hudfghdf8.blogspot.com
hudfghdf9.blogspot.com
jterer10.blogspot.com
jterer3.blogspot.com
jterer7.blogspot.com
jterer9.blogspot.com
tetey1.blogspot.com
tetey2.blogspot.com
tetey3.blogspot.com
tetey4.blogspot.com
tetey5.blogspot.com
tetey6.blogspot.com
tetey7.blogspot.com
treye41.blogspot.com
treye411.blogspot.com
treye412.blogspot.com
treye413.blogspot.com
treye414.blogspot.com
treye415.blogspot.com
treye416.blogspot.com
treye417.blogspot.com
treye418.blogspot.com
treye419.blogspot.com
treye42.blogspot.com
treye43.blogspot.com
treye44.blogspot.com
treye45.blogspot.com
treye46.blogspot.com
treye47.blogspot.com
treye48.blogspot.com
treye49.blogspot.com
trwerw1.blogspot.com
uywetwe1.blogspot.com
uywetwe3.blogspot.com
yertertyr1.blogspot.com
yterwerte2.blogspot.com
yterwerte5.blogspot.com

Case #13 - corincent.blogspot.com

2005-09-06T00:44:00.000-04:00

Initially splogs were nothing more than page full of links. However I'm noticing that more and more it's trying to look like it has content. Some do better job at that but this one isn't it. Anyway, I'm still going after them one by one.

Case #12 - digitalcameracorner.blogspot.com

2005-09-06T00:38:00.000-04:00

This is a typical splog picked at random. I realize that just targeting large spammers may not be the best way to go about it hence the randomness. I've reported this splog to AdSense as with any other.

Case #11 - ioanaani.blogspot.com

2005-09-05T11:39:00.000-04:00

At first appearance this is yet another splog but it's really a precursor of lot more. What's different about this splog is that it has a link to sex animation web pages. AdSense has a policy of not allowing AdSense on "Pornography, adult, or mature content." Obviously I've alerted AdSense people about this. What's becoming clear is there is a definite rise in pornography related splogs.

Current Status Updated

2005-09-02T08:18:00.000-04:00

It appears spammers have changed their tactics. They seemingly have gone away but they are still there. They're just hidden. They know that people like me are coming after them vigorously. They are now creating splogs that will not show up on blogger directory so clicking on Next Blog button will not show the splogs. Google will still index them thus fulfilling spammer's goal of manipulating Google search result generating revenue. I guess it's time for me to read up on Google API to ferret out these spammers. This may actually be a good thing since I can now use Google to find splogs instead of clicking on Next Blog button. They can run but they can't hide.

Current Status

2005-09-02T06:21:00.000-04:00

I admit I haven't posted much in here in last couple days. Just so you know I haven't given up. I have four cases that I've worked on but not posted anything about. Having said that, four cases for four days isn't much. I've been busy working on a set of perl and shell scripts to automate many analysis tasks. With this new tool I've found a set of splogs that has over 60000 links pointing to spammer's website. I believe it will accelerate many other tasks greatly. Current number of splogs in my database is 1292. The number tends to fluctuate between 1200 and 1500 depending on how many new splogs are being created each day and how many are being shut down. I've noticed that on average Blogger deletes 75 to 150 splogs on my list. If anyone wants to report splogs you've found, please send it to fightsplog@gmail.com.

I've noticed sudden surge of pornography splogs yesterday. At the same time I think Blogger is starting to step up their efforts to curb the growth of splogs. So far we are winning the battle. I was able to click through about twenty consecutive legitimate blogs via Next Blog button and that's pretty remarkable.

New Procedure

2005-08-29T01:56:00.000-04:00

I've decided to change my splog reporting procedures slightly. It appears splogs are getting shut down before Google gets to see them and evaluate AdSense policy violations. Ideally it would work like what happened on Case #3. Spammers should get their AdSense account suspended and then Blogger will clean up the remaining mess. The reason why I'm aiming for AdSense account suspension is to really pull out the weed from the roots sorta speak. Just removing the splogs is not a deterrent since they will just create more splogs to replace the ones that were shut down. The new procedure is to report the splogs to AdSense and give them time to take appropriate action first then I'll report the case to the public after few days. I believe this as a more effective means to deter sploggers.

If you are wondering how you can help fighting splog, there is plenty you can do. Probably the most time consuming process of fighting splog is collecting and identifying splogs. You can help me by submitting your splog lists to my email address fightsplog@gmail.com. If you are a spammer and reading this, I suggest you delete your spam blogs immediately and stop any further spamming or else you risk getting banned by AdSense.