Splog is a spam blog which steal content from other blogs, in many cases they never refer to original source and take a full credit for a story or content. There are three major types of splogs: splog made to generate traffic and make money from affiliate & pay-per-click programs (Google AdWords, AdBrite, Yahoo Ads, Bidvertiser etc), splogs to generate traffic and redirect users to other websites and services, splogs to fill content with different links for SEO purposes.

Recently I discovered that several blog posts I wrote appeared on some other blog. It was obvious that my best & the most popular posts were picked by hand and copied word to word. I was lucky to discover that guy information was listed on Whois when I checked his domain, can you imagine! This jackass never put privacy on his 100% illegal site. So, I emailed him:

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 Last year Associated Press decided to sue bloggers who links and quote news articles from their site, unpopular move sparked a lot of debates in blogosphere and many blog sites boycotted AP.

 Washington Post decided to go the same way by accusing Gawker in plaigiarism. Apperently, Gawker Media writer qoted some parts of the article from Washington Post providing link back to original source. Gawker is a popular blog, not a splog which steal entire content, and many writers and web publishers will agree that link back from powerfull website gives extra visibility, higher traffic, and put original story on the next level of debates in social media. Washington Post and their writer Ian Shapira don’t think the same way, Shapira published another article with outrage to Gawker Media.
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