Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A blog with automatically generated content designed to promote related commercial websites by inflating their search engine rankings.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Internet A
fake blog , usually reusing content from other sources, used to generatelink spam .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If a splog is publishing your feed, it would need to use your key which would be unique and easily tracked to each splog.
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I agree that the definition of splog is way wrong.
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A splog is a type of blog known as a “spam blog” which may or may not use unoriginal content.
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A splog is any blog whose creator doesnt add any written value.
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Having a lot of followers or traffic isn't enough either; if that were the case, aspiring bloggers could just deluge their sites with photos of naked women, or better yet, start a "splog" -
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Having a lot of followers or traffic isn't enough either; if that were the case, aspiring bloggers could just deluge their sites with photos of naked women, or better yet, start a "splog" -
Digital, Buzz, viral & social media marketing agency ★★★ Vanksen|Culture-buzz
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A splog is any blog whose creator doesn’t add any written value.
Splogging or Clogging: The Worst of the Worst of Blogging « Lorelle on WordPress
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(Another kind of splog links to other sites spammers are trying to promote, in hopes of driving up those sites 'search-engine ranking -- here's a primer on the phenomenon.)
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But the particular conditions for a speed blog or 'splog' are that it must be 20 words or less, and be written without bothering to check for spelling or grammer.
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Actually, "splog" or "slog" are two common shorthands for "Spam Blogs"; as people linked to you using "slog", Google assumed is was to point at a wrong doer...
ecbrenner commented on the word splog
spam+blog
from Word Spy: "1. A fake blog containing links to sites affiliated with the blogger with the intent of boosting the search engine rankings and ad impressions for those sites. 2. Spam links added to the comments section of a blog."
September 29, 2008