Not long ago I received a very on-topic comment on my Weird RVRD issue explained. I started to research it, and even formulate an answer. However, I was somewhat suspicious because of the asymmetry between the username ("web development Dubai") and the question (which was anything but web development related). So I did a little searching around and it turns out that they copied the question from an ITToolbox topic.
It is surprising to what kind of effort spammers go to get their links. I would also be curious to know if they used automatic or manual methods to come up with the comment text...
PS. A word of caution to my fellow bloggers: if the poster's URL looks suspicious, but the text of the comment/question seems legitimate, try doing a search on it, to see if it was lifted from an other site.
Thanks for that. It might explain one or two blog comments I've seen recently. If the URL is odd but the comment seems legit, I do sometimes quote it in a follow-up blog rather than approve it.
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