The Art of Content Recycling (or Save the Ethics for Later, Please!)
I recently wrote a blog post about how some nefarious domain registrars are hijacking unused subdomains on client domains for PPC ads and linkfarming. Someone then commented on my site "No wander it happens, because of the splogs." They then linked through to their related blog post about splogs. But then their site sold a service to generated automated machine mixed content to post on hundreds of sites. And their post about the splogosphere was stolen, as their next post was (and probably the prior post too).
As it turns out, they were the very animal they claimed to be railing against when they spammed my blog. They were a splog. And I can tell they used a bot to leave comments too. The results of their splog? 55 people subscribe to their splog on Feedburner so far, and they proudly display their Askimet "spam comments blocked" logo. Nice job there londonwebdesignservices.com...it would be sad to see your website added to the Askimet spam list though! ;)
Someone somewhere is recycling your content, and they are spamming people to push market it as their own work. You either promote your content via push marketing and/or brand building, or someone who steals you work gets credit for it. Your choice.
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