No, I’m not talking about blogs about cars. I’m talking about pseudo-blogs that are obviously completely automated, collecting entries about certain subjects from other blogs and linking to them. Geek Drivel has had three such hits so far; I’m letting them stay linked for now, while I try to figure out what their purpose is.

I’m certain it’s some form of link-spamming, and I suspect I know how it works too: one spammer or group of spammers has gotten wise to the fact that their link-spams aren’t getting through because it’s trivial for link-spam checkers to ensure that the link goes to an article that links back to it. So they’ve created these pseudo-blog sites to collect links, using actual blog software that’s automated to quote some piece of the article that seems sort of relevant to the title of the blog. That mollifies the automated link-spam checkers, and passes a cursory manual examination as well, getting the links in place. Then at some point, they’ll replace the pseudo-blogs with some penis-pill or stock-scam site, and have lots of ready-made links to it to boost it’s Google ranking.

We’ll see if I’m right. 🙂