Update, Tuesday Dec. 29:
Either Google took action on the thieving splogger domain, or the owner came to his senses. Either way, the blogsopt domains in question have now seemingly turned into parked domains, which is good news for Blogspot owners. The issue of splogging remains, but evidently crime doesn’t (always) pay.

When you thought Blogspot a.k.a. Blogger was the perfect way to build your Adsense blog empire without initial expenses, along comes someone snatching your blog’s sub-domain with content and re-publishes it with a slight typo in the sub-domain suffix.

Your new blog was most likely cloned at birth, your Adsense ID replaced with that of the perpetrator’s and/or new ad code injected automatically. Copy your Blogspot URL and paste it into your web browser’s URL field, replace blogspot with blogsopt and see what you get. You have my sympathy in advance. And that’s only one of many scrapers. Read the rest of this entry

Traffic Exchange websites can be of great help when you use it with spicy squeeze pages and for building opt-in lists at low or no cost. You can read more about it in the “Free Traffic” section if you want to know more. Surfing Traffic Exchange sites to gain traffic credits for your advertising needs can be rewarding, but how can you know for certain if a website being rotated in a Traffic Exchange isn’t doing nasty things to your computer, such as leaving a Trojan or installing ad-ware without your permission?

Even though Traffic Exchange owners have their system Read the rest of this entry