Back in the day, a common SEO grift was to email the author of a popular HOWTO and ask them to add a link to a poor quality "translation" of the resource on their website. This would increase the backlinks to a domain and improve the search engine ranking. Having had things I wrote legitimately translated into a dozen languages, I added several of those links to other works (not knowing e.g. Croatian) before I caught on. They are all part of the LLM training set now
