Comments on: RealEstateMindSet.Info Steals Blog Content

By: Jack LeVine

Jack LeVine — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:16:09 +0000

I'm being blasted with emails telling me that I've been linked to. Didn't have a clue that this is what it's about. Molly Tomato said to just ignore them.

I'm really the total un-geek. I just love writing, and the leads that are being generated are now up to about 1 a day. Based on this thread and Molly's "ignore them" I just made a rule for my outlook to put them all in a separate folder and keep them out of the inbox.

By: My entire blog - stolen by a splog | Real Central VA

My entire blog - stolen by a splog | Real Central VA — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:42:52 +0000

[...] Jay has battled this scum before, now it’s my turn. [...]

By: Laura Scheer

Laura Scheer — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 11:49:12 +0000

That is sad. They have slowed on Steve but I am sure they will be back again.

By: Jay - The Phoenix Re

Jay - The Phoenix Re — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:42:30 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Laura. Sadly, I'm going to have to remove that list. I put it there to "honor" those that link here and provide a little "link love". I'm certainly not going to do that for these sploggers.

I wish that plugin had the feature to block a site from being on the list….

By: Laura Scheer

Laura Scheer — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:28:48 +0000

Jay, Its sort of funny (well not really, but kind of) that they (the site we are discussing here) are in the list to the right of your top ten trackbackers.

By: Jay - The Phoenix Re

Jay - The Phoenix Re — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:01:40 +0000

"I know it stinks to be plagiarized, but there is a benefit to it as well."

I see no benefit what-so-ever to having content stolen. As Athol said, this splog (and all its kin) has a Google PR of zero — so they have no PR to pass.

Not all link backs are created equal. Links from these sites won't hurt your SEO, but they won't help either. I doubt seriously that anyone links TO these sites, and Google likely recognizes all their outbound links as nothing more than a link farm and/or the splog that it is. Technorati make count it, and shame on them for doing so. I'm confident that the search engines discount these back links almost completely.

I prefer to get my inbound links legitimately and gain search position with content and worthwhile linkage, not from some sleezy spammer who is violating the law.

Jennifer – filing a DMCA notice with the splogs host is probably the only effective action to take. (see the link in post for details) But it's very time consuming and success is completely dependent on the host — some will take action, some won't. Like Shailesh, I've never had any luck reporting them to Google. I have had some success filing DMCA's, but I don't have the time it takes right now to deal with it.

By: Athol Kay

Athol Kay — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:26:05 +0000

>>SEO perspective, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

Links from a page rank 0 splog are worthless for SEO.

By: Nigel Swaby

Nigel Swaby — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:12:49 +0000

Since I commented here, these guys have started scraping me as well. According to my technorati inbound links several sites are doing this.

They are only copying a teaser amount of content and I get two inbound links. From an SEO perspective, this isn't necessarily a bad thing.

I know it stinks to be plagiarized, but there is a benefit to it as well.

By: Jennifer Kirby

Jennifer Kirby — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 07:59:20 +0000

They are scraping content from both of my blogs. My question is why are the names for the authors not mine? One post says 'Heather wrote': but then the link is to my blog. My name is not Heater obviously. If you are successful at defeating them, please let me know how you did it.

By: Athol Kay

Athol Kay — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:49:00 +0000

Soooooo….

Post bomb threats, wait for scraping, delete orginial post, call FBI on the splog?