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Old 12-05-2006, 04:37 PM
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Default Are these blog pingbacks spam?

I've never seen anything like these two pingbacks I received to one of my posts:
A Singer’s Life Blog » Blog Archive » Renee Fleming in Lucerne Last Night

As a newbie blogger, I'd appreciate if someone could take a look and tell me if these are legit or not.

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Old 12-05-2006, 05:38 PM
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Well, I found this at the first one:

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Hello everyone sorry for this stupid blog. I was testing out a new plugin and it turned out to be a lame rip off content-stealer. Sorry again. The thing went awol on me and I didn't know how to stop it for a bit there, so I just removed it all, and shut down this worthless site. Thanks for understanding.
And it looks like the other one is possibly similar. It seems to just ping back to any and all blog posts, no matter what the topic.

The first one seems like an accident. The second one I would strongly suspect of being spam.
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But even when it is spam, you have an site linking to youwhich is good for your google page rank.
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Thanks guys. I knew something didn't add up there.
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But even when it is spam, you have an site linking to youwhich is good for your google page rank.
Random interjection:

If a spammy site links to you it will do almost nothing for your page rank. The power of a link is based upon many things of which spam sites generally have none.

Sorry, not sure why I felt compelled to speak up. Must be a forum thing
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I had a somewhat similar experience, but the site did give me credit for my blog post and hasn't been a nuisance so I didn't do anything about it.
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