Comments on: How to Report Blogger.com Blog Spam

By: Darla

Darla — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:41:55 +0000

I have a couple of guys from Bermuda who have taken large chunks of my text. I have emailed them and requested they stop, but either they can’t read English or they figure I don’t have any ability to fight them in Bermuda. It’s very frustrating. I try to have unique content, and even if they emailed me for help, I would have written some content FOR them, rather than have my content duplicated. I’ve found BitScan.com and CopyScape.com to be very helpful.

Google Alert as you mentioned is also very useful.

The URL to report Blogspot spam blogs is:
http://help.blogger.com/?page=troubleshooter.cs&problem=&ItemType=spam&contact_type=Spam&Submit=Continue

Hope this helps!

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By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:15:50 +0000

CastleCops SIRT Team is on the ball, and claims to have Google’s attention regarding this issue.

It’s prevalent across blogs AND growing numbers of “Google Page Creator” pages.

Abusebutler has a form to submit these splogs
URIBL has a form to submit these splogs
Castlecops.com/SIRT has a form to submit these splogs.

You can also flag/report them as noted above, but I dont know how much Google pays attention to those reports.

All else? spamreport@google.com

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By: Cliff Calderwood

Cliff Calderwood — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:18:13 +0000

Thanks Virginia I’ll let WordPress know.

Google has terminated most of the blogs the person had my article posted.

Cliff

By: Virginia

Virginia — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 23:16:22 +0000

The spamming is bad enough, but I once found an Indonesian blog that was listing my (and several other folks’) ecommerce store urls with instructions on how to hack into the store administration. (There was a security hole in the shopping cart software that we were unaware of.)

I flagged the blog. Google made him take down the offending page, but the blog stayed up–even though he had other pages with credit card numbers and no doubt had tons of that kind of stuff buried all over his blog archives. He was clearly violating the TOS.

WordPress.com, on the other hand, took down a similar blog within hours.

Cliff, WordPress has info on its complaint procedures here:
http://wordpress.com/complaints/

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By: Cliff Calderwood

Cliff Calderwood — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:36:30 +0000

Jack,

Thanks so much for this information – I’ve been a victim of ths on five different sites and they use the saem article.

I’ve also seen the same abuse on WordPress.com itself and struggled to report them as well on that system.

If anybody knows how to report abuse on wordpress.com reply to this thread so I can benefit.

Thanks agains Jack,

Cliff

By: Mark@NewSuccessOnline

Mark@NewSuccessOnline — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 17:49:56 +0000

Thanks Jack. I’ve noticed that I am a “victim” of this abuse and it’s time to start doing something about it.

Hopefully it will eventually make the web a more ethical form of media.