Balls and Walnuts
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Can someone explain to me
. . . this?
Someone named ‘Apparel’ lifts content from other blogs (like mine), links to those blogs, but puts the material under his byline. On initial inspection, there’s no obvious advertisement on the site. But then I highlighted the invisible stuff after “powered by,” and it turns out this site links to golfnewsworld.com.
Strange, huh? Is this some sort of device to boost golfnewsworld’s Google ranking?
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Blog traffic is way up today. As far as I can tell, people are searching Google and Yahoo like crazy, but not for any particular thing. That means everyone’s blog traffic should be up tonight. Is it?
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More later this evening. I’m working on a piece about surgical internship, mostly to remind myself I’m being a wussy* for complaining about my work load.
D.
*Cross between a wimp and a pussy. I tend to assume people know that, but they often don’t.
I dunno, it looks like a link-rating building exercise to me. Dirtbags.
My traffic is down today. Way down, in fact. Although spam is up.
Oddball Google hits–especially for images–ebb and flow for my blog. There doesn’t seem to be any clear pattern. There are days when they just zoom up for no clear reason. Yesterday, hits were average compared with the last few weeks. Overall, I’m getting many more Google search hits in the last couple of months then before that period.
Want hits? Post a photo of Rachel Ray.
Oh, I should add that my fave search hit of the last few days is:
>>Why do i have nausea, dizziness and a bubbly stomach
Hey, don’t blame me.
Rachel Ray, huh? I don’t know her! Shows ya what I know.
OH, wait. Is she the food gal?
Apparently one in five blogs created every day is spam. See
See here.
http://www.adweek.com/aw/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001736416
If somebody will teach me how to do links in wordpress, I will create a pair of panties for them.
Hi, Blue Gal.
Links in WP should be the same as links in a generic webpage — <a href=”[URL goes here]”>Link text here</a> .
For instance:
<a href=”http://www.patrickjohanneson.com/deardiary/”>Pat’s Blog</a>
should generate
Pat’s Blog
If that didn’t work, I’ll feel a little silly.
And Doug:
It appears that the spam blogger is harvesting posts that have the words “balls” or “bags” in them. Hence your post about juggling was pilfered. Seems an odd way to drive traffic to a site, but what do I know? I’m not a spammer.
Want some C1al1s or ph3t3r3m1n3 expialidocious?
Oh, how I wish we could destroy these spam blogs. Spam spam spam spam
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Spam spam spam spam . . .
Ball-bags, eh? I wonder if Davo at Bawbags has this problem.
How does one drive traffic to a blog? I started mine to keep the folks back in the ‘old country’ up to date with my tomfoolery in San Diego. Now I’m hooked on Blogging. I really enjoy the comments more than the hits. I see some blogs with loads of comments. How does it happen? This is more me thinking online than a comment. Sorry!!
P.S. Great blog.
Hi Alan. I’ve responded over at your place, but I think I’ll write a quick post to invite other comments . . .
I google my name along with my school district from time to time to see if anyone is writing nasty things about the school board.
Someone’s been mining the School Board minutes, pulling out searchable phrases, and setting up blogs with those phrases with all the Board member names listed. (“Adjunct Duty Hours” “Ratification of the agreement” and, my favorite, “declaration of surplus property opens the gate to further enterprise opportunites”) Thank god I didn’t spout that last phrase, it would be embarrassing. I’m not sure what the purpose of the blogs are, but if it’s only to increase traffic to archived minutes of school board meetings, you have to wonder about the business model here.
Wonder if blogs are linking to Congressional Record snippets too. ::Shudder::
That is strange, Suisan. And so much of this stuff seems automated — viral, almost.
It is automated. Blogger allows that.
And no Pat that does not work. You need two quotation marks around the blog name and the word title= at the beginning. Like this . I think.
No. Like this?
Fuck it.