An Interesting Post on an Interesting Post
Over at some of the blogs we run, we get a lot of pingbacks that say
XXXXXX wrote an interesting post today on YYYYYY. Here’s a quick excerpt …
where
- XXXXXX = a random (or sometimes not so) name or email address, and
- YYYYYY = An excerpt of the original blog post title.
Sure, link to us, post about our interesting posts (today!) and all. But to get tons of trackbacks from our sites (linking to yours), which are obviously MFA blogs (for Made-For-AdSense or Made-For-Insert favorite ad scheme here), is blatant disrespect for the authors of original content.
I advise anyone reading this to add the phrase “wrote an interesting post today on” to your comment moderation list or even blacklist.
Curse those automatic content-scraping scripts!
I think these are coming from a piece of blog automation someone is selling in conjunction with an ebook.
What gets me is that it’s the same thing over and over again. If I wrote such a program I’d have it vary the intro content before and after the excerpt to decrease detection and to improve search engine indexing.
Frank C said this on October 28, 2007 2:16 am