Sping
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Sping is short for "
spam ping", and is related to pings from blogs using trackbacks, called trackback spam. Pings are messages sent from blog and publishing tools to a centralized network service (a ping server) providing notification of newly published posts or content. Spings, or ping spam, are pings that are sent from spam blogs
, or are sometimes multiple pings in a short interval from a legitimate source, often tens or hundreds per minute, due to misconfigured software, or a wish to make the content coming from the source appear fresh.
Spings, like spam blogs, are increasingly problematic for the blogging community. Estimates from Weblogs.com and Matt Mullenweg's Ping-o-Matic! service have put the sping rate—the percentage of pings that are sent from spam blogs—well above 50%. A study commissioned by Ebiquity Group and conducted by the University of Maryland in 2006 confirmed that these numbers are around 75%.[1] Since then, growth in sping has slowed, such that the portion of pings that are spam has dropped to 53%.[2]
The term was popularized by
David Sifry from Technorati in his February 2006 State of the Blogosphere report,[3] but was coined initially in September 2005 by a French SEO blogger, Sébastien Billiard, in an article titled "Spam 2.0".[4]
See also
References
- ^ Pranam Kolari; Tim Finin & Anupam Joshi. "SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Splog Detection study" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-06-18.
- ^ Pranam Kolari. "Pings, Spings, Splogs and the Splogosphere: 2007 Updates". Retrieved 2007-06-19.
- ^ David Sifry (5 February 2006). "State of the Blogosphere, February 2006 Part 1: On Blogosphere Growth". Retrieved 2022-08-30.
- ^ (in French) Original post: Sébastien Billard. "Spam 2.0". Retrieved 2007-06-18.
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