Comments on: A very spammy friday to you too

By: When your hot, your hot : Everybody Knows

When your hot, your hot : Everybody Knows — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 09:54:58 +0000

[...] with a certain sense of irony that i note my post A very spammy friday to you too where i noted the theft of my content and the fact that i was starting to take action to minimise [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 07:34:38 +0000

Hi Jonathon, yeah i am increasingly finding that having found this very post ripped off by a spammer. The message itself was an early hours of the morning solution until i get everything else set up.

Steph – their blogs are sending trackbacks when they link to my blog plus with WordPress the blogging platform i use, recent links to my blog from other sites from out of google are displayed

By: steph

steph — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:12:20 +0000

Wow, I’ve never even thought about this. How do you even find out if your content is being stolen??

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:40:28 +0000

I have to reinforce what Lorelle says. Most spammers these days are just watching the central pinging services and either grabbing desirable posts or are finding feeds to take wholesale. Big small or in between, it doesn’t matter anymore.

The footer in the feed is a good idea but also consider using a digital fingerprint to track your content a bit. It has worked great for me!

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:00:17 +0000

Tee – I guess the important thing is that we as bloggers don’t stand for it when it does happen. So keep an eye out for the trackbacks from strange places that have no reason to link to your blog.

As for your friend, i am thinking sadly that your friend is far from alone and its happening more then you might think.

Thanks for visiting

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:54:11 +0000

Hi Lorelle, your right – i had a look further into the matter and it seems to be rife everywhere and i will be amending this post shortly

I am for the fighting back and I for one am not going to take it. If i find it happening to someone else then i am going to let them know. Time to get rid of these free loaders!

By: Tee

Tee — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:01:56 +0000

This makes me sad… So far this hasn’t happened to me in the blog world (that I know of.) But it happened back in high school and I felt so violated and angry.

A blogger friend of mine had nearly her whole blog copied. Someone assumed her (more interesting) life. Bizarre.

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 17:47:14 +0000

It’s a myth that sploggers and scrapers are targeting the “big bloggers”. Many who haven’t been paying attention lately are finding themselves scraped, their content appearing in odd and strange, ad-filled places.

You are right that scrapers don’t look at what they are stealing. The process of setting up splog farm blogs is easy, and can be done in minutes. A random search of the web turns up tons of blogs, and with a few copy and pastes of links, they can put any blog into their scraping list, stuffing thousands of blogs into the list.

Many big bloggers are being scraped less because they have fought back. Now it’s time for everyone to fight back. It’s fast and easy to report sploggers, and together, maybe we can put an end to this blight on the web.

Thanks for being one of the heroes speaking out on this issue!