{"id":1279,"date":"2005-10-20T08:10:26","date_gmt":"2005-10-20T15:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/20\/splogs-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them\/"},"modified":"2005-10-20T08:10:26","modified_gmt":"2005-10-20T15:10:26","slug":"splogs-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andreaswacker.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/20\/splogs-and-what-we-can-learn-from-them\/","title":{"rendered":"splogs and what we can learn from them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlogsNow always checks for all entries how similar the blogs are than link to a given entry. Just now I tightened this parameter radically. It catches now more splogs and also a couple of &#8216;real blog entries&#8217;. If your fan club is not diverse enough, then you will not make BlogsNow as easy anymore. Looking at BlogsNow how it&#8217;s filtering I must say this makes sense: Those real blog entries are mostly linked by the very same group of blogs. 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