Have Search Engines Sucking on your Websites...

In order to raise rankings of their web sites in search engines, eTailers are now using Blogs to create undeserved apparent popularity. An example tool is Feature Blog. This program/hoster creates a blog for you, automatically (i.e. without your having to actually WRITE anything) by collecting links to articles at other sites that have keywords in them that have something to do with what you're selling.

Example: http://www.featureblog.com/blogs/obesity/ Open that page an click on one of the links near the bottom. Now you come up with a page full of links having something to do with obesity. No original content here, nothing to benefit their fellow man because all of the content was already writeen by others (and anyone could find the same stuff by using a regualr search engine). In fact, I found that some of the links are dead because the target articles aren't present any more.

Here's more on this sort of thing from David Sifry..

Anything for a buck. Seems like, if nobody's going to your site, there might be another reason.