Comments on: New kind of blog con? http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Blogging For The Money http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994/comment-page-1#comment-325768 Blogging For The Money Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:06:03 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994#comment-325768 <p>It's an annoying practice known as scraping a site. And, yes, it's designed to generate spam. You can use a plugin to turn that stolen content into a link back to your site, though, which means you get to take advantage of the spammers in return. The plugin, written by Joost Devalk is at: http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/rss-footer/</p> It’s an annoying practice known as scraping a site. And, yes, it’s designed to generate spam. You can use a plugin to turn that stolen content into a link back to your site, though, which means you get to take advantage of the spammers in return. The plugin, written by Joost Devalk is at: http://www.joostdevalk.nl/wordpress/rss-footer/

]]> By: Jon http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994/comment-page-1#comment-324391 Jon Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:08:35 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994#comment-324391 In example above, there aren’t any ads to click on, which is why I’m wondering if this is some kind of lead-in. But there's a link to this post which very definitely has ads to click - link - http://insurance.biyad.com/?p=13676 It's also inadvertently displaying html code, ie: Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://www.feedster.com/search/type/rss/life%20insurance%20quotes (HTTP Error: connection failed (11) in /home/raju79/public_html/insurance/wp-content/plugins/wp-autoblog/rss_fetch.inc on line 237 Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=web&rss=1&q=life%20insurance%20quotes (HTTP Response: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden ) in /home/raju79/public_html/insurance/wp-content/plugins/wp-autoblog/rss_fetch.inc on line 237 Cheers! (edited) In example above, there aren’t any ads to click on, which is why I’m wondering if this is some kind of lead-in.

But there’s a link to this post which very definitely has ads to click – link – http://insurance.biyad.com/?p=13676

It’s also inadvertently displaying html code, ie:

Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://www.feedster.com/search/type/rss/life%20insurance%20quotes (HTTP Error: connection failed (11) in /home/raju79/public_html/insurance/wp-content/plugins/wp-autoblog/rss_fetch.inc on line 237
Warning: MagpieRSS: Failed to fetch http://www.icerocket.com/search?tab=web&rss=1&q=life%20insurance%20quotes (HTTP Response: HTTP/1.0 403 Forbidden ) in /home/raju79/public_html/insurance/wp-content/plugins/wp-autoblog/rss_fetch.inc on line 237

Cheers! (edited)

]]> By: cyberscan http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994/comment-page-1#comment-324333 cyberscan Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:27:59 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994#comment-324333 What is happening is spammers are creating webpages based on other peoples work in the hopes that visitors to said webpages will click on the ads shown within. With the onslaught of various kinds of spam, it won't be long before the Internet become only a network of links between protected private networks. Government-corporate censors and spammers have ruined a good thing. What is happening is spammers are creating webpages based on other peoples work in the hopes that visitors to said webpages will click on the ads shown within. With the onslaught of various kinds of spam, it won’t be long before the Internet become only a network of links between protected private networks.

Government-corporate censors and spammers have ruined a good thing.

]]> By: Free Thinker http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994/comment-page-1#comment-324229 Free Thinker Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:49:25 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994#comment-324229 Scratch that last comment please - typo! I don't think you're being paranoid. I have a feeling that your articles are being used to generate spam. For years I have received (and I'm sure you have too), spam that has dismembered sections of stories at the end that bear no relation to the crap that they are peddling. I guess these are supposed to somehow fool the spam filters, although that doesn't seem to work. Scratch that last comment please – typo!

I don’t think you’re being paranoid. I have a feeling that your articles are being used to generate spam. For years I have received (and I’m sure you have too), spam that has dismembered sections of stories at the end that bear no relation to the crap that they are peddling. I guess these are supposed to somehow fool the spam filters, although that doesn’t seem to work.

]]> By: Free Thinker http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994/comment-page-1#comment-324224 Free Thinker Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:45:54 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14994#comment-324224 I have a feeling that this is I have a feeling that this is

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