The Business Blog at Intuitive.com

Dave Taylor has been involved with the online world since 1980 and is recognized globally as an expert on both technical and business issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed. He's a columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera and Linux Journal and frequently appears in other publications both online and in print. Additionally, Dave maintains four weblogs: The Business Blog at Intuitive.com, Ask Dave Taylor, Dave On Film, and GoFahterhood. Based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and frequent guest on radio and podcast programs, as well as active member of his community and busy single father to three children.

Another Layer of Blog Spam: Backlinks

I was surprised and dismayed to get the following message this afternoon:

Your site The Intuitive Life (http://www.intuitive.com/blog/) has recently been linked to by voyeur webcam blog (link removed because, well, I don't want to link to this garbage from my weblog) using the www.blogLinker.com system.
Your list will automatically link back to the initiating linker.
Please log in to blogLinker.com to manage your list of links. Remember, you can always hide any link in your list, or delete it completely.

Lovely, eh? Fortunately, while I don't even remember ever signing up at BlogLinker, I apparently had an account and could easily delete the offensive backlink. But it didn't really matter because I am completely against including a blind code snippet from a third-party site. After all, gadzooks, what if BlogLinker hadn't emailed me the update, or my spam filter had caught it and I hadn't? Having a link to a porn site (that I didn't even screen beforehand!) would be wildly inappropriate and annoying as heck.

In my eyes, this is yet another reason to retain tight control of every element of your weblog, from favorites to backlinks to trackbacks. After all, in the 21st Century, if you don't manage your links, someone else will.

Posted by Dave Taylor at August 9, 2004 8:26 PM

Comments

Thanks for the heads up! Much appreciated.

Posted by: PamG on September 21, 2004 12:26 AM

I've been spammed by similar sites. It's called searchnut[dot]com. Do you have any idea how could they control your link? If you don't link to them, their link to you won't do them any good, am I right?

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