WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Troubling new Incoming Links http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/troubling-new-incoming-links WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Troubling new Incoming Links en Wed, 22 May 2013 09:02:25 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 davidbdale on "Troubling new Incoming Links" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/troubling-new-incoming-links#post-56621 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:37:24 +0000 davidbdale 56621@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ OK, then I won't tell you what I learned this time, in case I'm wrong.

]]> drmike on "Troubling new Incoming Links" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/troubling-new-incoming-links#post-56618 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:29:53 +0000 drmike 56618@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Actually I was just pointing you to teh other threads just to show you what we've discussed about on the topic. :)

]]> davidbdale on "Troubling new Incoming Links" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/troubling-new-incoming-links#post-56617 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:28:01 +0000 davidbdale 56617@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks drmike. Got your point about the links. And about the level of damage. And, finally about searching forums before starting new ones. Well done! I've learned a lot.

]]> drmike on "Troubling new Incoming Links" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/troubling-new-incoming-links#post-56489 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:32:21 +0000 drmike 56489@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We try not to give spammers or scrapers around here free links. :)

All four sites are hosted on liquidweb.com servers. Feel free to drop them a little love note. abuse ( at ) liquidweb ( dot ) com.

A quick hatcheck turns up both pros and cons. "We can't police our own clients" on one hand although I do fine "We've canned the spammers" posts as well.

At least though it's not the full article that they're copying. You may want to do a forum search for scraper. It's been discussed many times over.

]]> davidbdale on "Troubling new Incoming Links" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/troubling-new-incoming-links#post-56487 Mon, 26 Feb 2007 15:20:46 +0000 davidbdale 56487@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I probably shouldn't be disturbed, but this is new to me. I used the tag "Family" yesterday, an unusual one for me, and immediately got four new inbound links from sites that apparently scrape blogs for the word family and then post links in their page, regardless of subject matter or relevance.

Felt a little creepy. "Covert Family"? These are the links for anyone who has an opinion and time to look at them.

familyreview.covertfamily.info/?p=18

familyview.familyhints.info/?p=21

familypointers.covertfamily.info/?p=19

familycenter.amazingfamily.info/?p=28

[Links broken - drmike]

Anybody seen anything like this before?

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