I came across an article of Aunty Lilian which she talks about the recent drop of her Google Adsense earnings. She also highlighted that some spam blogs are making money coolly from the Internet using Google Adsense and her rantings continue on how Google’s reactions on her reports about such sites.
If you are a self-hosted Wordpress blogger, I am sure you have seen many of these backlinks got trapped by the Akismet Spam Filter which is pre-installed in our Wordpress blogs. DON’T DE-SPAM IT! This is really a spam. If you don’t believe me, try give that spam post a visit. I have an example for you below.
I wrote an article about flirty Internet experts and immediately after the article went live, I got this linkback from a site called Blogs Feed World (they are evil, no links for them). Look at what they have did!
I am sure many of you have seen this before right? What are these actually and how these spammers had managed to do it? I don’t know whether you believe in this or not but this is actually a way of making money by blogging!
This method of blogging is called automated blogging and with some free Wordpress plugins like FeedWordPress and WP-o-Matic installed, these blogs can pull the RSS Feeds from other blogs which specific keywords selected by the spamming blogger.
With the stage all set and the contents starting make their inflow, these sploggers will monetise the blog by placing contextual ads (the best will be Google Adsense) and relevant affiliate ads on their blogs. When all of these has been done, their sites will get listed by Google faster than others because they update a few times daily, get a ranked for the field they are targeting, get targeted traffic from the search engines out there.
How do they make money?
When people went into their sites, there’s nothing but a huge amount of excerpt posts. When you go into a site, seeking something like “money making” for example but you found nothing, you will seek a way out right? With this, you will click on the few ads or affiliate banners there that are surrounding on money making issues.
According to “How to Make Money Blogging: 7 Strategies to Help you Get Started Immediately” by Maki, it is estimated that such blogs will make only $5 per month but with such cheap hosting available nowadays, it is easy for a person to start owning 1000 blogs of such and start making $5000 per month. I can conclude that these people only cared about their money!
Sounds unethical or feel like doing this now? 
Doing this now? Tell me if you are doing this. I won’t tell, I promise, I just want to know the actual amount you are making. Whatever it is, as a blogger that produce my own contents, I certainly don’t like this way of money making. What you think about this way of spamming?
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October 17th, 2007 at 6:18 pm
My posts never get copied by those assholes, I think it’s because my post are mostly personal and non-informative. Should I be sad or happy ne..
Anyway, still not interested in earning the spammy way, still prefer to earn “faithfully”
October 17th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Try categorising your posts with something like tech or Internet and you will see these leeches.
You should be happy. I am sure that no bloggers want their contents to be duplicated.
This is evil but it is not illegal.
Anyway, I rather keep on producing my own contents though, more satisfying… 
October 17th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I know, it’s like the pirated CD/VCD/DVD issue. You are the owner of the content, but other people are making $ out of your effort. Anywa, my content not ‘laku’ one… so no worries
October 17th, 2007 at 11:22 pm
Recently, I got this problem too.. people copied my post and put on their website.. Really make me headache.. I really do not know how to prevent this happen again
Any advices that can give me ?
October 17th, 2007 at 11:31 pm
Wah, good idea. Now, let me get my ass in my chair and start making 5000 such blogs.
October 18th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I have seen people copying entire post less the original authors name and posting it on their blog. And bad thing is that somethimes they manage to get search engine traffic from google etc. and readers believing the blog to be good (of course comtent is good thanks to theft) return frequently there.
To bad.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
@ Valen
It’s not about your content laku or not, it’s just that I don’t like the way they make money using contents of others.
You put it the right way, pirated!
@ keeyit
You can delete the linkback detected. Most of them are banned anyway so nothing much can be done. I will post something to make fun of these spammers soon.
@ Kitkat
Sure? Mind to e-mail me the results when you start making money?
@ Jalaj
Yes, this is true and what you can do is to report it to major search engines and get rid of them.
Will tell more about this in my upcoming posts.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
My content has showed up on some blogs this way. Darn sploggers.
October 18th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
I can’t stand it as well but there’s always a way to make the fun on them!
October 18th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
how to delete the ‘linkback detected’?
i also got quite many recently! i was surprised on how they got it but now after reading ur post, i understand..
do i actually get any advantage when they link me?
October 18th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
It’s like deleting a comment.
You will get a linkback if the site is not banned by Google or Technorati but you might be penalised for duplicate contents.
I will show you a way tomorrow on how to give them a lesson.
October 19th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Yeah, I have such things in my blog too~ But I just ignore it…
Now I know… And I will delete it~~!!
October 19th, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Ya, clear them off before they can cause you any trouble.
October 19th, 2007 at 10:04 pm
That’s why that everytime I got a trackback I check the site if there is a blog just for spam I delete it forever if not I accept. Sometimes is good to accept trackbacks from real blogs
October 20th, 2007 at 7:12 am
it’s really annoying when that happens! it’s too bad there is so much spam on the net and it’s very hard to stop them!
October 20th, 2007 at 10:05 am
@ Googlelady
Yes, if it is a trackback from a legit blog, it will be great but if it is from such splogs, it is a bad thing.
@ mike
You can try deleting them and stop their attempt though but sometimes, they just grew out of control and I have to click “Delete All”.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:50 am
There have been a few popular get-rich-quick ebooks on this technique so it’s no surprise that you see these sites a lot now.
By making it an excerpt post rather than a direct scrape they avoid copyright issues and, if they’re clever enough, duplicate content penalties as well. Getting flagged as a splog in Akismet isn’t a big deal to them since they’re relying on search hits.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:42 pm
I know. In fact, I have one banner up there promoting this kind of money making. This is why we need to submit their URL to Google and Yahoo for banning.