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Bad TrackBacks

So, I wrote a post over at MB about the Xbox 360 and mentioned a Microsoft MVP who had mentioned something on Robert Scoble’s blog. I get a TrackBack from someone who works in marketing at Microsoft (according to their blog) and when I view the entry, I see he mentioned the MVP that I did, but he didn’t mention or link to my blog in any way. Er… thanks… *TrackBack deleted*…

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 27th, 2005 at 11:14 am and is filed under Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

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5 Responses to “Bad TrackBacks”

  1. Dennis Pallett says:
    October 27th, 2005 at 2:43 pm

    I’ve had the same thing happen on one of my blogs. Pretty damn stupid, and it was almost spammer-like. The entry wasn’t spam at all, but they didn’t mention my blog at all. Only the subject was alike.

  2. Ray Ray says:
    October 27th, 2005 at 3:28 pm

    Keep in mind that some blogging software automatically finds other entries related to the same thing and trackbacks them.

  3. Patrick says:
    October 27th, 2005 at 4:13 pm

    I didn’t realize that. That’s spammy blog software.

  4. John Porcaro says:
    October 27th, 2005 at 9:18 pm

    Sorry, Patrick, it was human error, not trackbacks gone awry (though I do get a bunch of them, too). I was writing a draft of an article linking to your post, and copied the trackback URL into the wrong article… :(

  5. Patrick says:
    October 27th, 2005 at 9:29 pm

    There you go, making me feel all bad… lol. Well, my comment stands for people who actually do this on purpose. ;)

    But, I appreciate you saying that. No biggie, don’t worry about it, I’m sure I’ll do it myself if I haven’t already…

    Feel free to send me one if you ever happen to mention one of my entries. :) How did you happen across this blog entry?

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