It was only a matter of time, I suppose:
Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs, are
Web Log (or "blog") sites which the author uses only for
promoting affiliated websites. The purpose is to increase the
PageRank of the affiliated sites, get ad impressions from
visitors, and/or use the blog as a link outlet to get new sites
indexed. Content is often nonsense or text stolen from other
websites with an unusually high number of links to sites
associated with the splog creator which are often disreputable
or otherwise useless Web sites.
Splogs have become a major problem on free blog hosts such as
Google's Blogspot service. These fake blogs waste valuable disk
space and bandwidth as well as pollute search engine results.
---Wikipedia
If you're a blogger, and especially if you use the Google tools for blogs, it'd be good to get yourself up to speed on this new form of spamming:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splog
http://fightsplog.blogspot.com/
http://www.google.com/search?q=splog
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