The Term ‘Google Adsense’ Brings In the Backlinks
Normally with a headline like that I would write a post about making money with Google Adsense (or a lack of making money). Over the last few days I have noticed an interesting trend that I intend on exploiting as much as I can.
I was browsing through my Akismet spam folder on my blog to check and see if any real comments had been caught and mistakenly marked as spam. I did not see any comments that needed to be approved, but I did notice that I had a ton of track back to other blogs from a few of my posts.
It seems that the vast majority of trackbacks were posts that I had written with the term ‘Google Adsense’ in the title. It seemed that all of the trackbacks were from spam blogs that basically stole the first few paragraphs from my post, and then had a link to my blog that said ‘Read the rest of this great post here.’ Most people that I have spoken to are not fond of these ‘Splogs’ stealing their content and posting it on the Splog.
Personally I like it.
Each one of these Splogs is providing a backlink to my blog, and as bloggers getting backlinks is key. Of I shouldn’t get too excited because my old PR 3 is now at zero because I made a few paid posts. But still any backlink is good.
I would suggest that all of you bloggers take a look through your spam comments and see what posts you are writing (if any) are getting trackbacks from these Splogs. Try and figure out which keywords are triggering these Splogs to ‘borrow’ a bit of your content, and then begin creating more posts that contain those keywords.
It kind of makes me wish I had my PR back instead of the Google appointed zero.
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I personally, like you, have no problem with them.
It is another backlink to your blog and more people might see this post and visit you blog.
Yeah, backlinks are great but Page ranking is good too. I’ve heard of people getting penalized from Google for paid posts. I guess you were on of them, It will go up again, but I wonder how long it will take for your PR to go back to 3, any idea?
Sincerely,
Jamie Boyle
Internet Marketer
You know…..i came across the same thing. except, what i did was edit the comment/trackback to also link to my site, to try to get an internal as well as external link.
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I don’t mind that type of splogger that takes just a bit of your post and then links to you.
I mind the type of bloggers that will copypasta an entire page from one of my sites, that took many months of research to create, shove it in a single blog post and claim it as their own work, no credit to me, and no link to my site. And since they do it to so many sites similar, they end up with a page rank and traffic much greater than the sites they victimize.
The reason why the sploggers do it and link to you is 2 fold:
1. They want the traffic from Google that the excerpt will bring in and by not stealing the whole post they disguise it as a “review” and save themselves from being hit with a DMCA takedown notice from you. That way they get to keep their post on their splog.
2. They want a link to their site to appear on yours, so they can steal your traffic, authority, credibility, reputation, and a bit of page rank from you linking to them.
Now, there is a problem with #2, because if you allow their trackbacks to show on your blog, your page rank will suffer for linking to splogs. Google thinks birds of a feather flock together, and you will be labeled sploggish just for accociating yourself with them.
Additionally, you can lose credibility with your visitors when they end up on a splog from clicking a link on your site. Don’t do that to your visitors or they won’t come back.
So smile when they hit your Akismet, and then delete. Under no circumstances should you allow those trackbacks to appear on your pages. You gain nothing by doing it and you have a lot to lose if you let them show. If you ever have any hopes of regaining any page rank at all and developing a large faithful following that can write real reviews that bring in more traffic than any splog could hope to see, learn this now. Don’t link to bad neighborhoods.
Don’t feel guilty about it. The sploggers will keep doing their thing any way, so you will still gain some traffic from them, the same amount whether you delete their trackbacks or not.
This is your site. Don’t allow anything on it that doesn’t increase its value. That goes for crappy comments with nothing but “great post” and a link to their latest blog post from your CommentLuv, as well. Nobody wants to see/read those.
Save the linking for people that deserve it. It’s your way of rewarding people for making your blog better.
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@apps: As always, serious nuggets of helpful info that outshine the original post. Sometimes I think that people come here just to read your comments.
AS for the trackbacks, I have only ever allowed trackbacks(unless I missed one) for this post, and the reason was to show the amount of trackbacks I get on average for every post I make. After reading your comment I realize that these splogs really do not deserve a link.
SO we can kiss the trackbacks for this post goodbye
Chris, I don’t mind being your Ed McMahon, as long as you keep being Johnny Carson.
app, it’s funny that you mention that because earlier I was thinking more Abbott and Costello.
but hey JC and Ed McMahon do seem a touch more sophisticated.
dude…any new news on the adsense front? started your real world job and gave up on this internet thing?
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