Splogs became popular among some internet marketers for a while but now they are on the backburner after a lot of sploggers have had their sites banned from googles search ranks.

Spam blogs are created by automated software which blogs another website made up by automated software. Theses sites appear as gibberish keywords that don’t make any sense. The splogs would then promote the sploggers products or third party ad networks like google adsense.

This used to actually work in getting a site in the search engines fast up until about six months ago - but it no longer does.

Vaughan over at Business Blog asks if spam blogs are a valid business model.

Here’s why they’re not.

If you get caught with a spam blog you can have all your sites being banned from google’s search rankings. This means you get completely removed from google’s listings as if your site doesn’t even exist.

Recently Billionaire Mark Cuban’s Blog Search Engine Ice Rocket banned all Blogger blogs from its listings due to the huge amount of splogs over at Blogger. Blogger is owned by Google and this ban from Ice Rocket of Blogger blogs moved Google to crack down on Splogs swiftly.

Splogging sucks man.

As if there isn’t enough junk on the internet already.