This post is by way of an apology to the various brilliant blogs that I read that have been unintentionally "spammed" by HeroPress in recent weeks.Before one blog master contacted me about this issue I'd already noticed that "links" back to totally random HeroPress stories were starting to appear under entries on totally unconnected blog sites (for a long while it was a link back to a review of an episode of Demons from January called Saving Grace).
Then the problem just seemed to get worse; I've seen some entries on sites I adore, and certainly wouldn't dream of defiling, with around a dozen HeroPress links on.
I don't know what Blogger is doing and my attempts to stop it happening have come to nowt. It's not even selecting links even vaguely connected with the subject matter of the post it is violating.Frankly, it's embarrassing and is so annoying to me that I've even considered closing HeroPress down because I don't want it to get a reputation as a "spam" site.
The truth of the matter is: I don't know how or why Blogger is doing this and I would certainly stop it if I knew how.
In the meantime, to those whose blogs are being tagged with links from HeroPress, I can only say I'm sorry and I hope you won't think any less of my humble little site.
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2 persons have something to say about this!:
The images show what blogger calls "backlinks". The thing is, I thought they were only supposed to appear if you'd actually linked to the their page. Not randomly. Weird. :-/
Anyway, the whole point of enabling backlinks is to show other blogs that are "linked" to theirs. If they don't want to be "spammed" or send traffic to other blogs then they can switch off backlinks. Or, apparently, even delete individual backlinks.
Thank you, Nimbus. I thought you had to manually post these backlinks as well, which is why I was horrified that they kept appearing (in my name) on other blogs.
I've posted on the Blogger "help forums" about this - but so far have had no feedback :(
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