Good lord. I did one quick chat for an NBC news piece and they linked to my website. Now my WebMentions are a dumpster fire - filled with all their crappy, low-quality syndicated copies of the article. Counted 38 bunk domains all pointing back to the canonical NBC domain
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What's very weird about those two examples, is both websites are now something totally different and those blog posts are gone. I think it's part of an SEO scam game of some sort.

Mar 14, 2023 · 7:00 PM UTC

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Oof. Sounds like a terrible game. So maybe not even related to NBC? Just people trying to get SEO juice by linking to them? I don't get the rules of this gross house of cards.
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Yeah, I think the idea is to clone articles on popular topics from major new sites, and send them all pingbacks to get the back-links to boost the ranking of the spam site. SEO can DIAF.
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