I've often wondered if I made the right decision hosting my blog on jaytv.com instead of blogspot.com. Today after having not been blog surfing for about 3 months, most of my previous idle time devoted to Nain, and with Nian in California visiting her brother, I decided to do some random surfing to see how my humble efforts compare to others out there. The random surfing showed one overwhelming reason to host on jaytv.com however, which is not a blog site, but a commercial site I do a little web work for -- Comment Spam. Dozens of sites I visited have had their comments sections spammed by unscrupulous web site promoters. I don't see an easy cure for this blight if you are hosted on a highly visible web server like blogspot.com.

I doubt I should rest easy, my site is listed with several ranking and listing services. I suspect this new form of spam is powered mostly by Google.com searches with key words like blogspot. Once the low hanging fruit is plucked they'll seek out more devious means to find blog sites to spam. While I wouldn't count myself among the really popular blogs on the web, I've noticed they tend to have their own domain names. I did a quick check just now of http://www.wilwheaton.net, a really popular and well known blog by Wil Wheaton of Star Trek NG fame, no spam there (or Wil weeds it out quickly). Still I expect it's just a matter of time.

After a long dry spell this makes two posts in one day, three if you include this: Top Ten Signs Harry Potter Is Getting Older a post I made to my Larry's Top Tens blog. Tomorrow I should try and get part II of today's earlier post up, of course I have to write it first.

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1 Comments:

Hey Larry,

Long time no see. Hope all is well in ur world :)

peace,
blasian lotus

By blasian lotus, at August 06, 2005  

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