Splog, which being introduced around August of 2005, is now being spread and known by all blogger community nowadays. If you're still wondering what is Splog, you should continue read this blog till the end.
Splog, is actually the combination of two words; Spam and Blog. Basically it is a phenomenon which happens around all bloggers community. In our blogger community, every blogger is doing their best in creating a blog, writing all their feels, opinions, and the updated news with everyone in the community. While posting a blog, all words and the info are treated your masterpiece and other bloggers just to view and give comment to the blogger. But as the blogger community becomes more powerful nowadays, many advertisements (ads) start using the blog to introduce their products or services; in addition, search engine might detect the keyword on a blogger's page whenever a person is searching an info over internet (As the ranking on the search engine higher, means the blogger is more popular.). Being ranked by the search engine as one of the top website or blog is such a pride for anyone, but this has made some of the people think of a money earning opportunity by creating a blog themselves and start publish all their blogs to the blogger community. But the problem is, those people might not know about the true meaning of blogging, they might just simply copy the blog content from other blogger's blog and publish it instead on their blog page. This, is what we called Splog.
Maybe some of the blogger might still not aware of the potential danger and lost the what we called Splogger will have on us, you will realise it once i've state clear all the possibilities we might face somedays. First and foremost Splogger copy all the wonderful content from other blogger's blog, splogger paste it on their site, which means the content of the splogger will be same as the original blogger. By doing so some of the advertisers will advertise their ads on the fake blog from the splogger rather than the original blogger. This will make the splogger earn extra money while the blogger lost some funding sources. This is absolutely not fair towards the blogger who has spent all their time researching on their blog topics. Secondly, the splogger (plagiarist) will only make the blogger community compact and full with plagiarize copy of blog. Hence making the other users cannot really search for what they wanted instead of copies of splogger. Therefore, the existence of splogger will not benefit any party at all but themselves while at the same time, bringing troubles to all bloggers and internet users.
After i made all the statements about the troublesome of sploggers, now i have some of the ways and methods to cope with this phenomenons which i've read from certain tech magazines. The first things we can do it to put watermarks on our products (blogs), whenever the sploggers tries to copy our contents, the watermarks will follow the contents of our blogs to everywhere. Or maybe we can try to include our name inside our own post as frequent as possible. In case if the splogger simply copy our content into their directories or blogs without erase or filter out the original blogger's name, then the other users will get chance to recognize that particular blog space is of fake content and is copy of plagiarism. Then the users can report this case to certain website for other users references. Several website have start doing their efforts on anti-splog phenomenons, mainly they provide references for users or provide services for blogger to avoid splogs threats. Though they might not be able to blacklist or ban the splog, at least it provides a reference for other internet users to avoid entering this kind of blog for update news and info.Methods mentioned above are not a guarantee for a splog free environments, sploggers can be at anywhere plagiarizing the content of everyone, therefore not any solution is said to be 100% workable. But choosing between this two characters, i'm 100% sure that i'm supporting bloggers because anyone in the blogger community will be proud of their own contents being read and comments by the public, rather than copying contents from other sites. You're lucky IF you're a truly blogger, because it is FUN being a blogger, and it is PROUD being a blogger.
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