Please Stop Stealing My Content!

I went to see the site you wrote about and what did I find?

Please Stop Stealing My Content!
Posted on: 2007-07-03 03:06

Splogs, spammers, liars and cheats. I'm not fond of any of the lot.

"Real Estate News" is a splog that is scraping content from many real estate weblogs, big and small. These lowlifes don't even have the decency to link back to the original post (but they are too stoopid to remove any internal links, Digg links, feed links, etc. So it's possible to figure out where most of their content comes from.).

I'm certainly not going to link to them directly, but they can be found at realestate DOT wognews DOT com.

Real estate blogs I can tell they are stealing content from:

Yours truly, the Phoenix Real Estate Guy

Bloodhound Blog

RealBlogging

Future Of Real Estate Marketing?

Rain City Guide

North Fulton County RE Blog


re:PDX

Property Maven


The Real Estate Bloggers

Housing Doom

The Olive Press

And that's just TODAY…. there is, of course, no readily available contact info for these crooks.? Oh, but there are ways to find these slimeballs, and tomorrow morning that quest will begin in earnest. I've already submitted them to SplogReporter.com. Tomorrow Google AdSense gets notice as well as their ISP.

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Just as you described it.

Funny

These guys are bumbling fools aren't they Maureen? I figured this post would wind up there. You want to see another funny thing on that splog, look at the bottom of a post they steal from Bloodhound Blog and you'll see this....

Copyright ? 2007 BloodhoundBlog. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@www.bloodhoundrealty.com so we can take legal action immediately.

These folks are endemic. And to be honest you are seeing only a small part of the scrapers, the moronic fringe so to say.

The good ones also strip the links out so that you can not find them. To prove this, find a sentence in a post from a couple of weeks ago that is truly yours. Do a search on that sentence and you may find a few more that are scraping you posts.

The reason why Real estate blogs are such a great target is that the ads on the pages tend to be a higher dollar amount. And if they can get their sites ranking they can get the gold standard mortgage traffic that pays very well.

Hope this helps and keep up the great work!

Tom

Should I be happy or worried that I haven't been pilfered? :-)

Jay I wish I could claim to be a newly ripped off blogger. Hard to imagine anyone would want my content. I didn't pay much attention until someone accused me of copying, and the post was mine in the first place. Go figure. What I really hate is when others use my stuff to make money.

T "no H" B wrote: What I really hate is when others use my stuff to make money.

Which is EXACTLY what bozos like this are doing...

By "newly ripped off" I meant new to this particular splog. I know you've been ripped off before.

You too JD...

Thanks for commenting Tom! These clowns also have another splog dedicated to debt consolidation already running at debtDOTwognewsDOTcom. Mortgages are their next likely target.

Email to the owner/admin/tech contact of the primary domain have gone unanswered. Shocking isn't it?

I know it's pointless, but reporting them to their domain host and Google makes me feel better.

You know, perhaps we should all chat.

I have done some research and if these are connected, there may a way to do something about it.

It would be interesting to see if we can trace them to a certain source/locale.

I've found my stuff all over the place, and the sites are about Florida, Texas, you name it, everything but Arizona.
At first I didn't know what the !$#$#@!@#! was going on.
Get the bastards!

I find my articles all OVER the web- there are four sites that have stolen content, and most of them do not release links, comments or attribution- jerks. I too don't know why anyone would copy my junk- my 5 readers would recognize it anywhere!

If you need one more voice, I'm in. This particular site hasn't gotten me yet, but there are several more out there- BOO!

You are right they are total scum. Sites like this one are so common anymore. I just don't get why they bother.
I hope their computers spontaneously melt into their laps.

Well, SOMETHING got this splog taken offline! More here...

Hello,

I'm the sysadmin for HousingDoom.com. These type of sites are often easy to deal with. You can use a bit of Javascript and PHP to strip out the ads (no money), link to your site, and do a redirect (on some of them) to the original content. It makes their sites fairly useless.

Perhaps we should do a "blacklist" of such people. It wouldn't be too hard to put in a distributed real-estate splog blocker. Let me know if you're interested.

I with Dalton, I don't really know how to feel about it. Yesterday after reading this, I dismissed it until I found myself on a mexican website- the exact same setup. The cool thing was I found it via google meaning someone could technically find me via these sites? This just isn't the same thing as the agent here in Austin that litterally stole my glossary of real estate terms and forgot to delete our site name- I also found him via google searching that same name...

Some of the Splogs will link back to your original content, which can provide a little "Google juice" (and probably a link in Techorati too). The more evil splogs remove all links and references and present the material as their own. THOSE are the ones that really need to be crushed.

I don't know what it is with glossaries. Mine is consistently lifted...

Scrapers have been around FOREVER. Mine site has been scraped so often it has marks. Blog are now being targeted more because G loves them more at the moment.

Jay, thanks for the vigilantism....and the heads up.

Thanks for the heads up! I will definitely make sure to check and see if any content has been stolen from the RSS Pieces team. Everyone in the blogging world takes time out of their busy days to promote themselves and their companies through blogging, it is only common decency to give credit where credit is due.

I just found a site scraping me, Laurie Manny and Brian Brady. They have a bunch of Laurie's stuff. The same post of mine has shown up on a bunch of different splogs (like 30, and they are coming in as comments). Thankfully askimet is catching most of them. Any suggestions?

Ginger - all Askimet is doing is keeping the trackbacks off your blog. The sploggers are still stealing your content. About all you can do is try to get them shut down. Some tips are in this post: http://www.phoenixrealestateguy.com/content-thi...

But it's a never-ending battle. If I spent the time to get all of them that steal my content shut down, I'd be doing nothing else...

Sadly, about all you can do is use something like Askimet to keep their trackbacks off your blog and pick and chose which, if any, you want to go after. I love getting them taken off-line, but it's just too much work sometimes.....