MFA

by 32poems on October 24, 2007

I saw that one post had been scraped today instead of dozens, so what I did reduced (but did not completely eliminate) the scraping.

What’s funny is that they scraped a post on “MFA” as in the creative writing degree. What they really wanted was a post about Made for AdSense.

Someone had a good point about this. She views the scraping as a chance for more links in and hits. That’s true. At the same time, I know that links in from spam and junk sites don’t do much for search engine optimization.

I’ll move back onto poetry topics again tomorrow.

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Allen Taylor October 24, 2007 at 1:49 pm

True, the links don’t benefit you, but they don’t hurt you either. The search engines know you can’t control who links to you.

But this is funny. I like playing little practical jokes like that on these people.

deborah October 24, 2007 at 2:49 pm

@Allen–Me, too. I know my little jokes probably aren’t noticed, but it gives me a laugh.

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