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A spam blog, sometimes referred to by the neologism splog, is a blog which the author uses to promote affiliated websites, to increase the search engine rankings of associated sites or to simply sell links/ads. The purpose of a splog can be to increase the PageRank or backlink portfolio of affiliate websites, to artificially inflate paid ad impressions from visitors (see made for AdSense or MFA-blogs), and/or use the blog as a link outlet to sell links or get new sites indexed. Spam blogs are usually a type of scraper site, where content is often either inauthentic text or merely stolen (see ''blog scraping'') from other websites. These blogs usually contain a high number of links to sites associated with the splog creator which are often disreputable or otherwise useless websites. There is frequent confusion between the terms "splog" and "spam in blogs". Splogs are blogs where the articles are fake, and are only created for search engine spamming. To spam in blogs, conversely, is to include random comments on the blogs of innocent bystanders, in which spammers take advantage of a site's ability to allow visitors to post comments that may include links. In fact, one of the earliest uses of the term "splog" referred to the latter. This is used often in conjunction with other spamming techniques, including ''spings''. == History == The term splog was popularized around mid August 2005 when it was used publicly by Mark Cuban,〔Cuban's original post is archived here ().〕 but appears to have been used a few times before for describing spam blogs going back to at least 2003.〔See, for example, (a June 13, 2003 hackermojo.com entry ), which uses the term, albeit in reference to spam comments on blogs.〕 It developed from multiple linkblogs that were trying to influence search indexes and others trying to Google bomb every word in the dictionary. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spam blog」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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