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Originally Posted by Zhuli
Thanks for the clear explanation!
So is there anything we can do? I'm tired of seeing my posts on some diet blog, loan blog etc. These are junk... and I wish I weren't on them.
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Unfortunately, no. On the web you have no control over who links to you.
There's never any contact information on the blogs. I supposed you could go to their ISP and try to get them shut down, but by posting short excerpts and linking back to the original blog, they're not really stealing content. At least not in the same sense as the people who take entire posts and don't link back.
You can make sure their trackbacks don't show up as comments in your posts, though, so that at least you aren't linking to them. I regularly delete these sorts of trackback comments when they appear, especially since I use the DoFollow plugin.
The blogs will be shut down by Google eventually, in the form of being removed from the Google index, but by then the person who started it will have started another couple dozen.
Jay