Redirecting Splogs Found on Google's Blogger Service

Posted on January 3, 2007

Steve Rubel posts on Micropersuasion that spam blogs on Google's Blogger service are linking to blogs and then using redirects so that when bloggers go visit the blog that linked to them they are redirected to an affiliate website. The splogs Steve Rubel found are redirecting people to people search engines.

Each blog posts automatically redirects the searcher to one of a handful of different people search engines that I don't care to link to. People-Search.com is among the most popular. You can spot these and others in dozens of Google Blog Search results for my site and others.
All of these new spam blogs are powered by Google's Blogger platform. However, they are getting indexed by all of the relevant search engines, including as of this writing Technorati. Google needs to put a stop to these immediately. It seems easily remedied if they can mine the blogs for the redirecting code.

The splogs are pointing to other kinds of websites as well. The redirecting sblogs aren't too hard to find. You may find some by checking the inbound links to your blog using Technorati or Google BlogSearch.