{"id":1733,"date":"2011-10-15T06:24:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-15T11:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2011-10-15T06:26:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-15T11:26:09","slug":"emily-smithson-broken-link-recommendation-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/15\/emily-smithson-broken-link-recommendation-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Smithson broken link recommendation spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:559,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/comments.gmane.org\\\/gmane.editors.lyx.general\\\/71648&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:560,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/groups.yahoo.com\\\/group\\\/invites\\\/message\\\/18395&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.yahoo.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I received two emails from &#8220;Emily Smithson&#8221; alerting me to broken links on a webpage I maintain. She recommended a website which has &#8220;mirrored&#8221; the original content as a place to link to.  <\/p>\n<p>How helpful, I thought, reading the first email. But then I saw that the 2nd email had the exact same format, almost as if it was sent out automatically by a spam bot. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A quick google search <a href=\"http:\/\/comments.gmane.org\/gmane.editors.lyx.general\/71648\">shows<\/a> that E.S. has been finding <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/invites\/message\/18395\">other<\/a> broken links and recommending people fix them with links to &#8220;http:\/\/www.aprendelo.com&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps she is just a helpful individual who sends out emails with the exact same format to multiple people, and happens to find a mirror of the content that they had previously linked to all on the same &#8220;http:\/\/www.aprendelo.com&#8221; website. Or perhaps the website deliberately mirrors other people&#8217;s content and then tries to get people to link to it for profit.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I appreciated the notice that the link was not working, but I updated the link to point at the new official source of the content, not the website her email recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received two emails from &#8220;Emily Smithson&#8221; alerting me to broken links on a webpage I maintain. She recommended a website which has &#8220;mirrored&#8221; the original content as a place to link to. How helpful, I thought, reading the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/15\/emily-smithson-broken-link-recommendation-spam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}