Just a few minutes after I published a new post to my blog, I received an email notifying me that a user has already made a comment. Excited that a stranger liked my blog, I eagerly opened my blog to check it out. It says:
Excerpt:
[...] [...] came across this post – Double Checking Bills – and thought it was worth sharing. I hope you find it interesting too and take the time to read [...] [...]
followed by a link to the full post on his own blog.
I clicked on the link, only to find that the full post is not so different from the excerpt, except that there are some Google ads at the top. I finally realized that this is a scheme to make profit on other people’s blogs. He probably has a robot that watches various new blog notification services. Once the robot sees a new post, it will automatically generate an entry on his own blog and then make a comment to the original blog with a link to his web site. Unsuspecting people will click on the link to his web site and allow him to make money on the Google ad impressions.
