Autobot this!
Okay, I am setting up a new blog on WordPress (sorry Blogger, but I had a certain look in mind, and the only template I could find that came close was on WordPress). The blog is set up on a subdomain of one of my personal domains, and I have not shared that URL with anyone yet. I want to get all the widgets and sidebars set up first before promoting the blog.
So, last week I finally put an introductory post on said blog. Two days later, I notice a comment on the post. Mind you, I had NOT told a soul about this new blog. The comment is a linkback to another blog. That blog is full of posts that link to outside blogs. There is no original writing on that blog. All it contains are snippets of other people's blog entries with links to those blogs.
Alright, so maybe all the outside links in that blog, and the associated linkbacks created, is a great strategy for increasing that blog's PR and for getting the search engine spiders to visit that blog frequently. Fresh content is, technically, being added on a regular basis. But, dammit, to me, the whole point of a blog is to express yourself. Sure, I do sometimes share what I find in other places on my blogs, but I always have a reason for doing so, and I say what the reason is. There is a part of me in every post I make. I don't post as often as I would like, but I am not going to stoop to using some automated process simply for the sake of making a post.
I deleted the comment on my blog.
Rant over. Now, back to our regularly scheduled program ...
2 comments:
Here here Eva. Some ethics and some pride. I applaud it and besides all those fake bots haven't learned to clap yet...well they probably have...but you get my drift...LOL
Blogtommy
I've had this same thing happen a bunch of times. I always delete the ones that just say "While surfing the net I found an interesting article blah blah blah..."
Occasionally however, there is a link from a site that seems to genuinely go out and find interesting posts and then link to them. They don't always include terribly interesting writing, but they actually have relevant, focused links. The only times I post non-original writing on my blog is when I run across a really interesting or relevant post on digg, or when I have a guest blogger write...
Nice post.
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