Blogs that seem to fetch articles and other data from the web… How to setup?

  • techphets

    (@techphets)


    16 years ago

    Hi,

    I’ve seen a few blogs out there that seem to crawl the web to fetch data. A number of them have shown up as pingbacks on my own blog, which is not hosted on my own site.

    How are these set up? Is there a specific name for the plug-ins or type of activity?

    Also, is it possible to change account password on this forum?

    Thanks,

    techphets

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  • scooby

    (@scooby)

    16 years ago

    users -> scroll to bottom of your profile

    Thread Starter techphets

    (@techphets)

    16 years ago

    I must be blind. I don’t see a ‘users’ link and when I click on the ‘view your profile linke’ there is no users link or a password link on profile, edit, or favorites pages. I searched the pages using Firefox’s find and the only time password was found was on the mailing list in the ‘subscribe to mailing list’ section.

    techphets

    scooby

    (@scooby)

    16 years ago

    What version of WP are you using?

    allQoo

    (@jacco)

    16 years ago

    I think techphets means to change password in wordpress.org…. I also need to know this as now I am using the machine generated code, hard to remember.

    hakre

    (@hakre)

    16 years ago

    Techpets, these “Blogs” are automated robots that create a page with data from other sources. They then automatically pingback the other blogs to gain linkage.

    At first sight I would classify them as SPAM and would only decide otherwise on specific, single instances. So I find it quite eager to post a question in this forum that some other user tell here how you can SPAM google and pingback-spam other blocks.

    If you’re not intended to spam the web but want to syndicate other peoples stuff, think about using the RSS-Widgets.

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