Comments on: Please Stop Stealing My Content!

By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:39:56 +0000

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-thieving-splog-is-offline/399

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…..

By: Ginger Wilcox

Ginger Wilcox — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:13:09 +0000

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?

By: BlogDiva

BlogDiva — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:17:40 +0000

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.

By: Appreciating my echo facet

Appreciating my echo facet — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:03:37 +0000

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By: Ron Ares

Ron Ares — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:53:35 +0000

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

By: Las Vegas Guy

Las Vegas Guy — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:11:01 +0000

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.

By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:43:55 +0000

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…

By: BR

BR — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:59:43 +0000

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…

By: HousingDoom Sysadmin

HousingDoom Sysadmin — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:11:11 +0000

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.