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Innovative Spam Is Just Downright Offensive

Started by goodwordediting · 9 months ago

Help! I need advice.

Last week I started getting these weird inbound link notifications. Someone is using a robotblog to grab deckcopy from my posts, attribute them to other people, and link back to me. Presumably, this will make their blog show up on Technorati pages, I guess.

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  • L.L. Barkat

    1 year ago

    I noticed the same thing yesterday with mine, except that it was attributed to me. "L.L. Barkat wrote a great post today..." But when I clicked through to the site, it was really about selling diamonds! Well, they've got the wrong blogger if they think I can afford to purchase their glitzy goods.

    Mostly I just saw it as a bother. But then it wasn't like they attributed my work to someone else like Marcus Goodyear (Oh, hey, that would work out though, wouldn't it? Among friends?)
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  • spaghettipie

    1 year ago

    I've been seeing this on my blog too. Sometimes it just grabs my post like LL said and sometimes it attributes it to a fake person like you did. I just delete the comment or linkback.
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  • Marcus

    1 year ago

    I added an update with how to fix this. L.L., I'm not sure how blogger works, but I know Wordpress uses Technorati to measure inbound links in the dashboard.
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  • heri

    1 year ago

    this is a new startup,

    ben yoskovitz made an interview recently on instigatorblog.com, with the CEO

    http://www.instigatorblog.com/mindvalley-launch...
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  • Marcus

    1 year ago

    heri, thanks for the tip. I checked into Ben's interview, but alas, my blog isn't cool enough for SocialRank yet. I was just the victim of a splog. Oh well.

    Thanks for thinking the best of me.
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