Over a year ago I questioned the use of tagging on WordPress.com to spread link equity around as "a rising tide".
If you use similar tags to a high profile blogger, it can help with faster indexing and rankings, at least from what I have observed.
In many ways the effect is similar to linkfarms, using the tagging as a central hub. Many commentators complain when they see Technorati tag pages appearing in the Google SERPs, because Technorati doesn't have a huge amount of editorial control over the content of those pages, they are more like search results.
In that situation however
With all the previous discussion of paid reviews and my unwillingness to raise the 
If an affiliate created a blog and fed a datafeed to that blog, a large proportion of the blogosphere would regard that blog as a splog, especially if it was on blogspot.
Akismet False Positives & Spam Karma Configuration
Spam Karma for me is the most effective comment and trackback spam management solution because it doesn’t cause me problems with false positives on many blogs where I comment on a regular basis.
As a blogger, it is a huge time saver by sending me email notifications a few times per day if it finds entries that are “possible” good comments and trackbacks, but which tripped up one or more of the various algorithms it uses.
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