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are you allowed to spam blogcatalog

Posted by jkhanok • 5/17/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Advertising, blogcatalog, blogging, cheating, complaint, Help, promotion, questions, spam

If a website creates a whole bunch of fake blogs, are they allowed to submit them all to blogcatalog?

What I mean is I searched for "Press Release" to find other blogs to network with and there are loads of good ones out there.

But you have to skip past the first 15 results which are all fake blogs for ePressreleases.

It makes blogcatalog seem not as good as it actually is. Shoudn't such blatant spamming be noticed?

The other thing I noticed is blogs with maybe 1 post in 2006 (or in one case 2004!!!) and these blogs joined blogcatalog and got approved in 2009. WHy approve a blog not updated in 5 years?

seems to me like this has capability to be great site but not if its abused.

User Comments

5/17/09

TonyB

Please report them.

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5/17/09

TonyB

Please report them.

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5/17/09

jkhanok

i did

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5/17/09

Friday13

Please report them.

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5/17/09

jkhanok

i did, but maybe it takes more than 1 report?

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1. 5/17/09
  
  Friday13
  
  Sorry, that was just me echoing the top dog
  
  One report is enough. There are probably many reports to be addressed before yours.
5/18/09

dosox

Please report them

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5/18/09

cookingasshole

just ignore it

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5/18/09

drjay1966

They're not allowed to...but they certainly do....

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5/18/09

jkhanok

I have got to say they very quickly got rid of the rubbish that I reported. But still a significant amount of spam, was not noticeable before because the other guys did such an awesom job and went so wild with about a dozen listings. SO will report those too. Looks to me like people need to take responsibility in their own sectors and niches to make sure the system is not just abused.

This seems to me to be a great bloggers networking tool and I am very happy I have found it.

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1. 5/18/09
  
  timethief
  
  Yes Admin here are expeditious when it comes to dealing with spam reports. As soon as I have the time I intend to check out my own niches as you have done and report what I find.
5/18/09

weblogian

We must help and save the Blogosphere. We need to clean our Blogosphere
Yes REPORT IT !

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5/18/09

exit2013

Spam, spam, spam, spam...Hormel! LOL!

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