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blogging for beginners: monitoring.
Byline: Davey Winder
Trackback
spam
Just as some people abuse blog posts by submitting spam as comments, so the trackback system is open to similar abuse. Instead of being a legitimate related blog posting, the spammer simply links to you from within an advert blog.
Some blog publishing services do have content-based trackback ...
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