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Old 07-12-2006, 01:33 PM
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I came across a strange blog that is taking an extract from the middle of one of my posts [so it's all out of context] and is then linking back to me.

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Has anyone come across this before? Is it some kind of advertising stunt?
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Old 07-12-2006, 01:52 PM
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They're basically abusing your content
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Old 07-12-2006, 01:58 PM
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But what's the point? If they ripped the entire post, I could understand.

Maybe they have a thing about well behaved dogs?
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It's a splog (Spam Blog). The idea is to mix a load of different scraped content so as to avoid a duplicate content penalty in search engines.
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Ah! I had a feeling it was something like that.

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