For those who have been paying attention, you may have noticed when reading some of the articles here, especially if you get into any of the comments sections, that you’ll see this absolute nonsense from those who feel compelled to do everything in their power to scam Google and achieve success by lying, cheating and stealing on the Internet.
What you will see is something called “pingbacks” or “trackbacks”. You’ll probably also read some foolishness that says, “Tom Remington has written a great article or while searching the Internet, I stumbled upon…..” This my friends is ridiculous. These are con artists trying to make a fast buck. They have learned how to set up a blog and do nothing. It is automated so it visits other blogs, like the Black Bear Blog, and steals content.
The real stupid idiots steal the entire articles while the slimy and slick ones steal a “teaser” and provide a link back to my article – like somehow that makes it ok.
The problem with this is simple really. When they do this, they set up their blogs, and sometimes they make several hundred of them, this way in order to place ads, especially Google ads, on them. Another problem is they are just taking up space in cyberspace and cluttering the Internet with useless stuff. Also, Google now has to find a way to counter this activity because it is ruining the Internet experience.
The other problem with this more from my perspective is that I want to allow other honest bloggers the opportunity to do pingbacks and trackbacks. This is for the reader more than anything. You see Google believes and I concur, that the Internet experience should be geared to provide users with a good experience. When a user lands some place during a search, they should be able to find relevant information – this is what trackbacks are for.
When idiots are out there doing this, it also fills up my mailbox and fills up comment boxes on the page where the article is. When a reader finishes an article, they may want to also check out comments. Who wants to sort through that pile of garbage?
Another problem, which I’m sure some of you have already encountered, is that if you have been participating in some dialog on a particular story, the software is set up, usually by your choosing, to receive an email notice if anyone else replies to comments on this particular story. Who wants to have their mailbox fill up with email notices from some lame, stupid, lazy jerk who has no life?
So, here’s my request to all readers. If you know someone who does this sort of thing, shoot them for all of us, please!
Tom Remington
