Sping

Sping

Sping is short for "spam ping", and is related to fraudulent 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 [http://www.weblogs.com Weblogs.com] and Matt Mullenweg's [http://pingomatic.com 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, confirms that these numbers are around 75%. [cite web|url=http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/get/a/publication/213.pdf|accessdate=2007-06-18|title=SVMs for the Blogosphere: Blog Identification and Splog Detection study|author=Pranam Kolari, Tim Finin, and Anupam Joshi] Since then, growth in sping has slowed such that the portion of pings that are spam has dropped to 53%. [cite web|url=http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/02/01/pings-spings-splogs-and-the-splogosphere-2007-updates/|title=Pings, Spings, Splogs and the Splogosphere: 2007 Updates|accessdate=2007-06-19|author=Pranam Kolari]

The term was popularized by David Sifry from Technorati in his February 2006 "State of the Blogosphere" report, but was coined initially in September 2005 by a french SEO blogger, Sébastien Billard, in an article titled "Spam 2.0". [fr icon Original post: cite web|url=http://s.billard.free.fr/referencement/?2005/09/29/146-spam-20|title=Spam 2.0|accessdate=2007-06-18|author=Sébastien Billard]

External links

* [http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186500854 As Blogs Grow, So Does Spam] , Christopher Heun, "Internet Week", April 21, 2006

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