Monday, February 18, 2008

More on fake blogs

Raymond Chen's popular blog The Old New Thing has an entry that describes these fake automated blogs that I wrote about a week or two ago. Turns out the whole idea is to host Google ads on these sites and make money that way. Strangely, the ones that I've found that link to my postings do not have ads on them, so once again, I don't understand the point.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

It could be the spam blogs are trying to raise their pagerank (through trackback links) or haven't gotten around to posting ads. Those are the only two scenarios I've been able to think of....