Bot Blogs
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Lately, I have noticed a slew of incoming links from what I call bot blogs, which are a kind of spam but not as bothersome as comment spam. Basically, these are phoney blogs like supercelebs.net/david-brooks/ that combine some ads and some legitimate blog entries that contain some key word, like “David Brooks”, etc. I didn’t even include David Brooks in my article that got included there, but did refer to “David” and “Brooks” in separate sentences. I guess there is no way to block these sites from showing up in incoming links, right?
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Yup, do a search for scrappers if you want to see the previous threads. That one there is hosted over at rsskings.com which is in softlayer.com space. Feel free to complain to their abuse address but expect to be ignored.
Showing up in your incoming links don’t do anything negative. As a matter of fact, I would rather see them as then I can go after them.
Link broken by the way. We don’t want to be encouraging them. :)
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You know what’s bloody irritating? When major blog aggregators like BoingBoing or Lifehacker link to blogs like that. And they do it ALL THE BLOODY TIME! Two weeks ago I spent days trying to get credit for a photographer in Germany; the scraper site got on Digg and Reddit and Make (and I think BoingBoing) and it took ages before things got properly credited; the buzz had long since died. Pharyngula last week linked to some site called sciencedigg.com or something to feature the photos they’d posted, when each of the photos had the “deepbook.org” watermarks on it. He even cropped out the watermark. Seriously, why would you NOT link to the original source? I find that so hateable.
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Just for reference, softlayer finally got back to me and it appears that rsskings is no longer. In fact, rsskings is no longer active anywhere.
I sent them a thank you.
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