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Blam, Spam, Thank You Ma’am
As much as Net citizens like to create new words out of the fusion of older words, I’ve got a new word for blog spam – it’s Blam. This is when another blogger scrapes your blog posts and reloads them onto his own blog for one of the following purposes:
- Sell advertising alongside your content with no attribution
- Attribution may be given for your content, but it sits right beside AdSense ads, the other blogger’s primary source of income
- The blammer, blog spammer, and gratuitous traffic whammer, steals your content only to redirect your traffic via trackback to his blog so that he can then channel into another blog that sells similar services to yours (I love this one!)
- He’s promoting his affiliate programs
- She’s a kleptomaniac and just can’t help herself – you see, I’m an equal opportunity spam blam hater (at least I didn’t say she was a nymphomaniac – but then again, maybe she’s that too!)
- She’s got a lot of time on her hands and really doesn’t know what to do with it and it sounded like a good idea to use it to design a website, steal someone else’s content, and try to earn two cents with it because – hey, she’s a web designer, not a writer (give her a break)
- He’s just playing around
- Just goofing off
I could have titled this blog post, “Top 8 Reasons Blog Spammers Steal Your Content,” but see how boring that is? If you see this blog post on another blog somewhere it’s because you’ve encountered a blammer. Leave a comment for me (if they allow comments): Just say, “Spam, Blam, Thank you Ma’am” and link back to this post. Thanks.
Best List Of Tools To Stop WordPress Blog Spam
I found a great page of plugins and information about stopping blog spam. Most are tips about wordpress blog spam but soem are for moveable type and other platforms as well.
