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10 commentsMonday, March 3, 2008

Mullenweg Indicates Over 30 Percent Of Blogs Are Spam

Connecting the dots with a calculator

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By Forum internet marketing (WPN reader) - Sat, 05/16/2009 - 02:55

nowaday is hard to protect

nowaday is hard to protect from spamming blog, in my humble opinion of course

By Francis (WPN reader) - Thu, 04/30/2009 - 15:10

Great Article

Blogs that are mostly spam and no relevant content don't stay around long.

By internet marketing indonesia (WPN reader) - Sun, 03/01/2009 - 11:05

this is ver good article

i have more experience now about wordpress and matt :)

By Internet Marketing Indonesia (WPN reader) - Mon, 11/10/2008 - 02:52

thanks for your article.

thanks for your article. Very help me. I will more like visit to webpronews site. :) Fantastic

By Maqsood (WPN reader) - Wed, 07/23/2008 - 23:13

How to protect from spam in blog

Is there any body know how to protect from spamming blog

By Wall Decals (WPN reader) - Mon, 07/21/2008 - 05:32

About Spam Blog

I agreed, there are some bloggers doing spammy techniques for their blogs in order to be visible in search engines.

By Sire (WPN reader) - Sat, 07/05/2008 - 04:32

spam blogs

Even though a lot of blogs may be spam their life may well be short lived as they will have useless or poor content and subsequently will not have any visitors.

By Scranton Web Design (WPN reader) - Fri, 03/07/2008 - 14:00

That is a crazt statistic,

That is a crazt statistic, but believable..

By Sam B (WPN reader) - Tue, 03/04/2008 - 08:03

By "he" I mean Dan Frommer

By "he" I mean Dan Frommer in the post linked in your article.

By Sam B (WPN reader) - Tue, 03/04/2008 - 08:02

Your analysis is slightly distorted. Firstly, "one-third of all blogs are spam" implies that if I open three random blogs, I can expect one of them to be spam, when in fact I can't as that one has been deleted. "One-third of all blogs *created* are spam" is more accurate.

He's also done the calculation right. The proportion is spam / (non-spam + spam), not spam / not-spam. which gives you 24.1%. To put it in words, people create three times many non-spam blogs as spam-blogs, which means that one fourth of blogs created are spam.

Pedantry over.