links from random words

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  kimik0 · Member · Jul 23, 2007 at 10:10 pm

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  Why is it that some blogs I see on the Tag Surfer page have seemingly random words (often short ones like ‘of’ and ‘the’) linking to what look like porn or other commercial sites (from their URLs; I didn’t follow the links)? Is that something WordPress adds to those blogs, or is it some malware plugin? I find it hard to believe people would do that deliberately to their own writings.

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jul 23, 2007 at 10:12 pm

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  I would be sending this observation to staff in the form of an email addressed to support [at] wordpress [dot] com

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  thistimethisspace · Member · Jul 23, 2007 at 10:13 pm

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  oops – accidentally posted twice

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  raincoaster · Member · Jul 23, 2007 at 10:19 pm

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  Most of those blogs steal copy from somewhere else, so it’s not their writing at all. The blog is just an excuse for the links. Report them as spam.

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  kimik0 · Member · Jul 23, 2007 at 10:22 pm

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  Oh, is that it. Thanks for the info. I’ll report them from now on.