Blogger has recently started disabling auto posting to their accounts that they feel might be splogs. If your blog has any signs it may be a splog, Blogger implements a Word Verification filter before you can send or edit post. If you feel your blog was unfairly filtered out as a possible splog you have the option to request a manual review of your blog to remove word verification. What the word verifation filter does is stops auto posting to blogs. In order to complete a post, that is send it, a human needs to match a graphic code. Here is what it looks like.
This puts a stop to programs that can make auto posts to mutliple blogs on a schedule. I am not sure what Blogger looks for to flag blogs as possible blogs, the content is probably not a factor. I imagine the number of posts made in a given time. For example if your blog has 1200 posts and is only a couple of months old, this would be a flag. There probably are other considerations as well, but I believe the number of posts and frequency is the main factors.
Here is what Blogger has to say if you click on the ?
“Blogger’s spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What’s a spam blog?) Since you’re an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy, and we sincerely apologize for this false positive.
Some possible causes would be, irrelevant, repetitive, or nonsensical text, along with a large number of links, usually all pointing to a single site. Before we can turn off mandatory word verification on your posts we’ll need to have a human review your blog and verify that it is not a spam blog. Please fill out the form below to get a review.
Find out more about how Blogger is fighting spam blogs.”
I also suspect that the nuumber of posts and frequency counts.
Certainly this is not good news to spammers who use blogger blogs to promote adsense, or affiliates, or use them for blog and ping to get new sites indexed faster, but at least they are not deleting the accounts, at least for now. This means that you can still get traffic from them and make manual posts. You should set up new blogs to take their places as soon as possible, linking to them from your flagged blogs. On your new blogs keep in mind that Blogger is watching the number of posts being made and the frequency of posts. You will not want to send more then a few posts a day. I do not now what the acceptable number is. Also make your posts look more natrual, and relevant. Add manual posts in between automated posts.
As always Google in it’s attempt to fight spam only a new door for spam. As if there were not enough splogs out there already, now there will be even more! In order to go around this new filter, spammers will now have to create even more blogs to make up for the limited number of posts they can send to their blogs!
Wordpress 
is a better alternative to blogger any way, and spammers know that too, and also use wordpress. However blogger’s ease of set up makes it to tempting to pass up, and I doubt very much this will have much impact on spamming with blogger blogs. About the only thing blogger could do to really put an end it or at least cut it down is limit the number of posts to 2 a day, and if they did that they would loose a lot of bloggers not just spammers!
UPDATED : 11/12/05
Well after further investigation I discovered one of the main filters to be for duplicate content! If you are running a auto blogging program like rss to blog, and are using search results and or news stories, repeated posts is a no no! About 20 of my blogs have been filtered and now have the word verification added!
Interesting to note that my only 2 blogger blogs which are hosted on my server, were not filtered despite the fact they had repeated posts and high number of posts. So it appears that if you host the blog on your server you won’t get the word verification added!
By Bud Wiser
SEO Traffic Rank, Internet Opportunities
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