Well, it was pointed out to me that my sample size was too small with the last one so I have just tried with another 20 links from http://weblogs.com/ and it is even worse.
Every one of the 20 links was a spam/adfarm site. Every single one. I was watching as the last entry made here was pinged to them, but there was no mention of this site, so I can only think they have some arcane method of deciding who makes the home page and who doesn’t.
These are some examples from the recent crop:
http://www.supercoolsearch.com/The_Sopranos.html – how did this get on as a blog? Following my 20 links (all opened in new tabs so I could make sure I didn’t miss any), I had a look at some random ones. It seems that http://www.supercoolsearch.com/ get mentioned every four or five times. Not a blog in site there.
http://www.veryfastsearch.com/search.php?aid=571&keyword=Civilization got mentioned as a blog (Called Buzz!Civilization) which strikes me as a pure lie. It is nothing but adfarm.
http://www.18r7webhosting.info/bmresourcesaab0/animal-background-desktop-free.php is down as a “Free stuff” blog. Again, pure adfarm. I am amazed Google put ads there. An example of the sites “content” is:
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If google pay out any advertising fees to that site, well actually it wouldn’t surprise me.
http://occupational-therapy-salary-bis.extolled-cool-links.info/ tries to look like a blog, but is in fact another adfarm.
http://winecellarhq.blogspot.com/ has some potential for being real but I am not sold yet.
http://educationinfoguide.com/blogs/online-education-for-military-spouses and http://weddingplanningadvice.info/blogs/tips-on-planning-a-wedding/41569/ strike me as being nothing more than “cunning ploys” but they may be legit blogs. Nah, on second thoughts they are just as spammy.
Maybe I am just timing things badly and normally all the posts are 100% legit. I doubt it though.