I had a very bizarre comment on this blog…:<\/p>\n
Cyber Cauldron
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\n174.136.32.19
\nSubmitted on 2010\/08\/17 at 11:20am<\/p>\n
Transmogrification\u2026<\/p>\n
I found your entry interesting thus I\u2019ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog \ud83d\ude42 \u2026<\/p>\n
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It was obviously machine generated spam, so I just hit spam. Then out of curiosity checked the site it came from which was a pagan blog post about transmogrification (meditating until you see yourself as an animal).<\/p>\n
This made no sense, they aren’t the spammy kind. So I gave them a ring, and the chap who answered was baffled too, but he worked it out!<\/p>\n
He’d installed a wordpress plugin for SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) which was looking for similar posts and my “data visualisation” post got paired with his about visualising being an animal.<\/p>\n
The nice thing is he turned off the plugin when he discovered it was causing a bother. So if you see these (88,000 matches for the string on google) then they may just be someone who didn’t realise the SEO wordpress plugin would be annoying other users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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