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MyBlogLog Spam Getting Worse? I’d Say So.

February 18, 2007

This morning, I checked my email to see that I was invited to be a coauthor the “Blogmeme_Belgium” MyBlogLog page (I won’t link directly to the page because the load time is horrendous with all the authors who have signed up — there are at least 300 of them and their avatars ALL load on the sidebar). Beyond the number of authors, there are 188 members in the community.

Since I have no involvement with this site, I didn’t accept the invitation. Apparently, I wasn’t the only one:

MyBlogLog Author Acceptance Denied

The strange thing is that this is the only rejection that I was able to visibly acknowledge (though I am sure that most people did not accept the invitation — those 300 people who did are a small chunk of the people who appeared to have been invited!). Sadly, a good amount of my blogging buddies actually blindly joined this spammy community!

One of the smarter “coauthors” made sure to label the community appropriately:

This is MyBlogLog Spam

The gamethis.com URL links to an ebay auction, where someone was looking to sell the domain name (and did for $1200). What it comes down to is this: this was certainly unwanted spam.

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If You Don’t have a Blogroll, Will MyBlogLog Cut It?

January 10, 2007

My blogroll needs work. There are just too many blogs that I read that are not represented there. Ultimately, I intend to make a post similar to Lee’s excellent resource (though definitely not as extensive) covering the blogs I read in the Search Marketing community (and a little beyond for those who are interested).

And then I read Andy’s addendum to LifeHack’s six blog improvement tips, where he states that it is helpful to add a blogroll. Granted, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen such a comment, and in light of recent events revolving the famous widget of the blogging community, I can only wonder: is MyBlogLog, which I personally feel should be used more as a community rather than just a widget, a suitable blogroll replacement? After all, I am slowly adding myself to the communities of blogs I read (including Andy’s — but for the record, I did that well before this post!).

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