Roger Kondrat - Online Communicator - Latest Comments in http://www.techwinter.com/2006/09/05/splogs-how-false-user-numbers-contribute-to-the-problem/http://techwinter.disqus.com/Social media and Marketing plus some fun tooenWed, 06 Sep 2006 17:23:48 -0000Re: http://www.techwinter.com/2006/09/05/splogs-how-false-user-numbers-contribute-to-the-problem/http://www.techwinter.com/2006/09/05/splogs-how-false-user-numbers-contribute-to-the-problem/#comment-1480916Roger,<br><br>Interesting theory on how abandoned blogs can suffer from spam and thus boost the unscrupulous blogger's pingback count, and aid their ranking.<br><br>It would be difficult to manage the "dead" blogs queue - how long would you give it before you announced a blog to be defunct? A month? A year?<br><br>But I agree that all this dross can lead to a false impression, both in the number of blogs a service provider hosts (which may or may not be active) and pingback fraud - a bit like <a href="http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/seller-shill-bidding.html" rel="nofollow">shill bidding</a> on eBay.Caz MockettWed, 06 Sep 2006 17:23:48 -0000