The Pending Spam Crisis For Hosted Blogs

In announcing new data on the growth of blogs as tracked by Technorati - over 7.8 million at the end of February, double the number tracked just last October. The new data shows that between 30,000 and 40,000 new blogs are being created every single day - more than double the number (15,000 per day) from October. (growing volume of reports about such blog spam, this will be an ever-increasing and major problem for anyone who runs a public blog, whether an individual or an organization. I know of a good half-dozen business bloggers who have been hit by comment and/or trackback spam attacks in recent months, to the extent that it caused them major disruption to their blogs. I'm not talking about the odd spam comment here - these are concerted attacks with hundreds of automated spam messages blitzed to a blog. In January, as a means to combat comment spam in blogs. That can't prevent spam, it can only try to address it after the event (and it doesn't seem to have caught on). practical guide to spam prevention for users of TypePad, as I do, there is nothing you can do to prevent spam - see this trying to deal with blog spam on hosted blogs from the preventative point of of view. To prevent comment spam, there are tools - TypeKey authentication system. I don't know why no one's not yet found a way to implement these preventative measures on hosted blog services. Surely it's just a matter of time until a service like NevilleHobson.com blog which focuses on business communication and technology.

Neville is currentlly the VP of New Marketing at NevilleHobson.com