Spamming and copying in blogging

It is obvious that spam pollutes Web sites as well as e-mail.

But Web site operators can take actions to combat it, says Matt-Cutts, Google's lead engineer for combating Web spam, at the Web 2.0 Expo

Matt Cutts, head of Google's Webspam team and an engineer who's been working on the problem for eight years, says - "Spammers are human," Cutts said. "You have the power to raise their blood pressure. Make them spend more time and effort...... If spammer gets frustrated, he's more likely to look for someone easier."

It is a pity that someone likes Matt focusses and comes up with such a statement. More likely they are bloggers in pampers who spam - they are new and they are under pressure to perform.

They have just spent some time on the internet and have just heard the word "blog" and are trying to use this concept of blogging and become rich !

Have you ever wondered how blogs actually got started? You will need to understand how to research your blog how to do everything from figuring out where you fit in to finding the best keywords through both paid and free tools.

I took up blogging not so long agp, and it didn’t go well.

I started out quite well, with such good intentions - posting every day, spending time thinking of unique and fresh topics to blog about that would be interesting to my readers.

But no sooner I got weighed down with the amount of work it took, and the time I spent making posts I started sp*mming.

It was inevitable - my blogging slowed, and my blog faded. Visitors dropped to 1
or 2 a day. Something had to be done!

Now, I didn't understand then that copy news-clips and giving credit to guys was called sp*mming - well, it is sort of !

Recently, I decided I wanted to kickstart my blogging career again. Only this time, I blog about subjects that I’m deeply interested in, and it feels much more like a hobby.

Of course, making money is what it’s all about so you will learn how to use your blog and to make money you need to advertise, finding the best place to put your ads and the best ways to target and bring the traffic straight to your blog.

So, if you are ready to learn how to set up your blog and make some money, then just continue researching and reading so as to learn the easy way to accomplish this.

A key to blogging successfully is the passion of the author.

Copying and pasting articles from directories will bring search engine traffic, but it won’t build a readership. As in list marketing, the money comes because of your relationship with your readers – the same is true for blogs. If you’re scraping or automating the process and basically just copying content - you may as well set up an article site, because you won’t have a blog.

But I am not here to preach about the ethics of blogging and how to go about producing a decent blog that people will return to and that you can use for selling. The main issue here is to make the process of blogging easier for you, and how to make it quicker.

Although I do partially support the automating of this process, ie., scraping, copy ‘n’ pasting. it must be mentioned that the main idea of copy and pasting is that it saves time. And make sure that the articles are in line with your intentions and that it is not copyright struff.

*** If so please do give a courtesy to the author so that there are no legal hasssles ***

However it must be mentioned that if you’re going to simply replicating content, they will eventually find the original source and they’ll become regulars there instead.

Basically, blogging is about the voice of the author, and how that draws readers into their world...

And I am still lost at Matt, when he says to employ systems that rank people by trust and reputation and to not to be afraid of legitimate purveyors of search-engine optimization services. "SEO is not spam. Google does not hate SEO," Cutts said. "There are plenty of white-hat SEO (companies) who can help you out."

The most sensible piece of advise is to use captcha systems to make sure real people, not bots are commenting on your site.

But the hardest problem was finding topics and blogging about them and time itself.

If you want to monetize the blog - go ahead. But make sure you have rock solid, real, unique, hand generated content to keep people coming back.