Spamdexing?

Wikipedia covered the reason I’m getting links posted in other blogs for no good reason.
The article on Spam in blogs says it’s called spamdexing.
“It is done by automatically posting random comments or promoting commercial services to blogs, wikis, guestbooks, or other publicly accessible online discussion boards. Any web application that accepts and displays hyperlinks submitted [...]

Lotsa lotsa links… but are they worth anything?

Be interesting to see if THIS post gets linked…
I’m getting a lot of items in the Akismet spam filter for sites that have links like “see more of this great post here” or “dvanarsd wrote an intesting post” or “while stumbling through the blogosphere” and then linked back to my ComputerHelper post. Most of [...]