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Splog Notification - Animal Shelters Directory Content Stealers!!
26Aug2008 Filed under: Blogging Author: girliegeekI’m well aware that the blog I am about to link you to is a splog (stolen content, often a bot). But what I am confused about is whether or not there is something I can do about it or if I even should.
While they did credit me as the author and link back to this site for the full article, it still leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth. Especially since the post was obviously taken by a bot since the blog itself is entitled “Animal Shelters Directory” and my post is about a virtual pet.Copy and paste this url into your browser removing the word “splog” at the end to visit the post in question. What do you think?
http://www.animalsheltersdirectory.com/virtual-pets-the-next-generation/splog
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Sly
August 29th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
At least they are linking back to you. There was a blog that was stealing my content. They used a re-writer, but it was obvious that my content was being stolen- they were even hotlinking my photos; stealing my bandwidth. They weren’t linking back to me on top of it all.
I looked to this article for advice:
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2008/01/20/fighting-scrapers-with-your-left-jab/
I found other bloggers that he was stealing content from and told them about it ( I used entrecard for communications). One of them said that they had caught him doing this before.
I reported the site to adsense.
Finally, the most devastating blow- only do this if you’re really pissed or feeling mean. I clicked his adsense ads repeatedly for several days. It took a week or so, but he was banned from adsense. He replaced the ads with some other advertising network, but apparently it didn’t pay out and the site was shut down within another few weeks.
Good luck.
fracas
September 4th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Hi GG. I’ve written about this several times on fracas, letting people know when I come across one to warn people about.
In this post linked below, the first paragraphs has three links to three very reputable people/blogs online with step by step instructions about what to do when you’ve been scraped.
Rather than link to him, you should post the url with an added character or word and indicate which character or word to remove in order to be able to make the url function. That way, others can go see it if they choose, and you won’t be linking. Lorelle (one of those three links) suggests that having splog links from your site can actually cause you to be penalized by google ratings. Just a thought.
And another thing I’ve done, is to write a post with their blog’s name in the title… and call them a thief or a scraper/splog, etc. That way, when anyone ever searches them, your post will show up in the results, alerting others to the fact they’re a thief.
The links you get from them aren’t worth it.
And lastly… I know that some bloggers are adding a disclaimer to their posts, so that when the content is stolen outright… at least the post at their site will contain your disclaimer and alert any unsuspecting visitors there, to the fact it’s a stolen post.
Hope that helps!
girliegeek
September 5th, 2008 at 6:27 am
Thanks Fracas!! Never even thought not to link to them *slaps forehead*!