jambrose.com » google alert http://www.jambrose.ca Interactive Digital Media Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:51:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Spam blogs polluting my Google Alerts http://www.jambrose.ca/spam-blogs-polluting-my-google-alerts/ http://www.jambrose.ca/spam-blogs-polluting-my-google-alerts/#comments Mon, 05 Jan 2009 03:22:09 +0000 jambrose http://www.jambrose.ca/?p=110 Google alerts are one of favourite ways to get good, weekly cross-section dumps on certain topics. Lately however, I have noticed that the top picks are usually spam blogs. These are also call splogs in Webtoopointohese. There are not always easy to spot at first, and they seem to take the form of “press releases”. Here’s an example:

Google News Alert for: social networking

Expert business advice on using Facebook as a marketing tool
BigNews.biz (press release) – Natick,MA,USA
While some businesses are beginning to use social networking sites in their marketing efforts, most business experts say that few companies are investing …

 

Word repetition: 

Business = 34

Expert = 13

Facebook = 8

Social networking = 6

If only I knew a social networking Facebook business expert.  I would be an expert at Facebook business and social networking and could start a social networking and Facebook business if I did.

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