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Spam Blogs

03.28.08 | technician | In media, spam, blog

I’ve been looking around for Detroit-related blogs and I’ve found a couple that are obviously set up as spam/automated sites, not very good ones either. I don’t want to actually link to them since that would help them but this is what they look like: the domain names and in detroitmi.us, they are very generic WordPress with the default theme, they take summaries of articles about Detroit from other sites and then add random text that repeats what I assume are high-value keywords, like healthcare, travel and tourism, hotels and real estate… and boat shows? The summaries are often nonsensical and definitely generated by software, but I wonder what this is really all about.

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