splog

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splog

(splŏg)
n.
A blog with automatically generated content designed to promote related commercial websites by inflating their search engine rankings.
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splog

(splɒɡ)
n
spam that takes the form of a blog
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splog

A blog set up purely for the purpose of collecting revenue from the advertisements it carries. “Splog” is a contraction of spurious blog.”
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
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Characterizing the Splogosphere. Paper presented at the 3rd Annual Workshop on the Web Loggging Ecosystem: Aggregation, Analysis and Dynamics, Edinburgh, Scotland, 23 May.
The information ecology of social media and online communities
WITH ALL THE HYPE SURROUNDING the rapidly expanding blogosphere, a world where anybody can write interminably on anything, it may come as a surprise that something far less familiar or friendly is growing even faster: the splogosphere.
Splog alert