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Blog is short for web log. A lot of people write about all sorts of things on the Internet in their blogs. To make money, they accept advertising and must provide eyes for it.

A problem can arise with bloggers because they troll the Internet for places to publish excerpts to their blogs with links to their own web site and the balance of the articles.

When people follow the links to the blogs, their hits are counted, and the bloggers get paid depending on how many hits they generate (eyes on the ads).

The problem can be that some of the bloggers have malware and viruses on their sites. Also some bloggers use an attractive teaser (excerpt), but there can be little content in their actual blog. They're called blog pimps, and they're frowned upon here because they take our FReepers away and sometimes infect their computers. In addition, this is a user-supported site, and they can post here for free and use us and what we paid for to make money off us like vampires. They usually aren't worth the click.

There is nothing wrong with bloggers, but we do have problems with blog pimps.

This is pretty sketchy, and I probably left a lot out, but I'm sure that you can get the general idea.