Over the past week or so, I have been getting a lot of trackbacks on this blog. "Well that's good", you may think. I thought so too, my talent for writing complete drivel is being appreciated at long last. So I started to investigate where these trackbacks were coming from.

One in particular links straight back to the Google homepage. Turns out that some, shall we say less than reputable web-marketing companies (I prefer to categorise marketing companies as fuckwits - but that's borne by personal experience of having worked for those from the shallow end of the gene pool), are actually hiring people to create trackbacks in order to boost Google ratings. I say "hiring" but it is more like exploitation of the unsuspecting and indolent. Fortunately, Google have wised up to this and have created a "nofollow" attribute that is automatically inserted into the trackback and ergo no difference is made to the Google rating at all.

Using an IP lookup tool it seems as though these trackbacks originate from the Russian Federation. Quelle surprise. I suspect though that a Russian ISP is being used to mask the origin of what amounts to an unnecessary nuisance. Besides, my blog settings are such that if you do trackback to any of my articles the no follow tag is activated or you will be spam trapped and the trackback will be deleted and blocked automatically. I wouldn't mind so much if the pages that the trackbacks link to look plausible - but they don't. "dog-fecal-incontinence.html" and "fisting-old-aged-women.html" isn't really going to inspire me to want to trackback to that page. As open-minded as I am, those are not the sorts of subjects with which I wish to associate this blog.

I also suspect that the companies hiring these fuckwits to boost their google ratings are probably less than ethical in their own business dealings and are therefore fuckwits by association. If not, then you are being duped and spending a goodly portion of cash for little or no return.

So, fuckwits. Trackback all you like - it makes not one iota of difference.