WebmasterWorld reports 75% of Google's blogspot as spam
{{date|March 22, 2007}}

According to a survey conducted by {{w|WebmasterWorld}} some web sites, providing free web space for amateur bloggers contain in many cases mostly spam. Certain queries showed even a rate of 100% spam.

Experts from WebmasterWorld provided precise figures and statistics to their survey. For example the following list shows the percentage of spam on different popular sites providing free bloggers' web space:

* '''blogspot.com''' with 77%

* '''netscape.com''' with 74%

* '''hometown.aol.com''' with 84%

* '''hometown.aol.de''' with 91%

* '''oas.org''' with 78%

* '''xoomer.alice.it''' with 77%

* '''home.aol.com''' with 95%

* '''freewebs.com''' with 52%

* '''blogstudio.com''' with 99%

* '''maxpages.com''' with 81%

* '''usaid.gov''' with 85%

* '''blogsharing.com''' with 93%

* '''sitegr.com''' with 100%

* '''torospace.com''' with 95%

* '''blog.hix.com''' with 100%

The present research was based on most popular queries on the blog sites. Among other the WebmasterWorld experts used the query ''phentermine'' on [[Google]]'s '''blogspot.com''' and ''ringtone'' on '''hometown.aol.com'''. These queries proved that there blogospheres contained more than 74% {{w|Spam blog|splogs}}.

The researchers said that the main reason for this big amount of splogs was the fact that the web-space provided on the mentioned sites was free, thus the spammers don't have to bother buying a domain and paying its support.

==Sources==
*{{source|url=http://www.infoniac.com/hi-tech/google-blogs-spam.html |title=Google's Blogspot Contains 75% Spam|author=|pub=InfoNIAC|date=March 21, 2007}}.
*{{source|url=http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/012778.html|title=75% of Google's Blogspot Blogs are Spam|author=|pub=SERoundTable|date=March 20, 2007}}

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According to a survey conducted by  some web sites, providing free web space for amateur bloggers contain in many cases mostly spam. Certain queries showed even a rate of 100% spam.

Experts from WebmasterWorld provided precise figures and statistics to their survey. For example the following list shows the percentage of spam on different popular sites providing free bloggers' web space:

* 'blogspot.com' with 77%

* 'netscape.com' with 74%

* 'hometown.aol.com' with 84%

* 'hometown.aol.de' with 91%

* 'oas.org' with 78%

* 'xoomer.alice.it' with 77%

* 'home.aol.com' with 95%

* 'freewebs.com' with 52%

* 'blogstudio.com' with 99%

* 'maxpages.com' with 81%

* 'usaid.gov' with 85%

* 'blogsharing.com' with 93%

* 'sitegr.com' with 100%

* 'torospace.com' with 95%

* 'blog.hix.com' with 100%

The present research was based on most popular queries on the blog sites. Among other the WebmasterWorld experts used the query phentermine on Google's 'blogspot.com' and ringtone on 'hometown.aol.com'. These queries proved that there blogospheres contained more than 74% splogs.

The researchers said that the main reason for this big amount of splogs was the fact that the web-space provided on the mentioned sites was free, thus the spammers don't have to bother buying a domain and paying its support.
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