Identical Blog Entries by Different Authors

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  redwoodpropertymanagement · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 5:22 pm

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  As a property management company we are interested in reading blogs about rental homes/real estate/investing/etc. When I search for “rental homes” the search results are flooded by nearly identical blog entries about finding cheap rental apartments. By nearly identical I mean that the titles are: “Suggestions For Tracking Down A Cheap Rental Apartment,” “How To Track Down A Cheap Rental Apartment,” “Tracking Down A Cheap Rental Apartment,” etc. Furthermore the content is completely identical aside from a few changed words: “dig into on bargain-priced rental apartments,” “launch your study on bargain-priced rental apartments,” “launch your research on cheap rental apartments,” etc. After clicking on several of the posts, it seems that this article is the first and only post by each author.

  It is clear to me that this is an automated blog entry. Does WordPress allow this? I imagine these posts are a violation of use.

  Please help! This duplicated article is ruining my search results!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 25, 2011 at 5:26 pm

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  No, blogs filled with nothing more than automated posts are a violation of our TOS, especially when the content is duplicated and has a strong marketing angle.

  Please follow this guide to report them as spam blogs: http://en.support.wordpress.com/report-blogs/

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  redwoodpropertymanagement · Member · Mar 25, 2011 at 5:43 pm

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  I followed the spam reporting guide and made appropriate notes. Thank you!

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Mar 25, 2011 at 5:52 pm

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  No, thank you! :)