A screenshot is the best living proof:


It was taken on this post of Blogger Buzz.

Long story short, those links in this screenshot are all unrelated to that post except one blog, which is an awful splog, stealing Google's contents. They are listed because these three blogs--which I have checked as you can see the link text color is different--use Blog List gadget. One thing in common is their blog lists are quite long. I don't know if that's a working trick to get own blog exposed in exponential scale.

In this blog, after I updated to HTML5 template, I have removed "Links to this post" from template. Well, now I see I happened to make a right decision.

This kind of situation is not only on Blogger, however it's a publicly visible issue. Probably a year or two, I have a blog which received lots of link-in, reported by Google Webmaster Tools, from one blog. That blog owner kindly listed my blog at sidebar of his blog, it's not a spam actually, our topics both are about Linux.

The fundamental problem is Blogger uses Google Search results if I recall correctly. There is a flaw: it looks into whole page not just blog post content. It's not like trackback. When you link to other blog's post, you do mean to link back with related content.

I am not recommending that you should remove "Links to this post" or the Blog List gadget, but you should reconsider if you do care about quality in your blog and in others' blogs.

Maybe we should rename "Links to this post" to "Probably (definitely not) related links to this post" as I did for my related posts list as shown below.