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Simple Zack · 1 year ago

Wow. That is some scary stuff. I didn't realize post theft was so crazy. I'm definitely going to be much more aware of my rss feed and information. Thanks for the tips.

Andrew · 1 year ago

Thanks for the tip on using the graphic at the bottom. I didn't like the idea of putting "This came from www.kantor.com" at the bottom of each post, but a graphic -- that makes sense and doesn't offend my aesthetics. :)

Deca · 1 year ago

I prefer to create at least one link at the content that be linked to my other post. So if my contents are scrapped, I have one back link from other site :D

Simon · 1 year ago

@ Zack: Thanks for visiting.
@ Andrew: Great that you found the advice useful, Spam, and spam blogs really piss me off.
@ Deca: I like the way you think there, although I suspect a lot of auto blogs apply no-follow to all of the outbound links. :(

new zealand tourism · 1 year ago

The signature is the method that has worked the best for me!

Deca · 1 year ago

I have many posts with some affiliate links. What the amazing? I've got sales from the sites that have scrapped my content :-D

Matt Butts · 1 year ago

Thanks for the great information. *stumbles*

Jeremy Splogmaker · 1 year ago

Hi. Nice post. Jez

Webdesigner · 1 year ago

Thanks a lot! I'm also tired of sploggers. It was very helpful. I became your RSS subscriber.

Nicholas Mullen · 1 year ago

@Deca: That is the same recomendation that google makes. It makes there job of finding the original source easyer and enables them to give credit where it is due.

Nick · 1 year ago

Great tip with the sig. We are now starting to see content thieves as a growing problem also. Would be great if we could just round them up and shoot them...

True Gadgets · 1 year ago

Thanks for the good tips, I am having a problem with one of my blogs getting copied 6 ways to Sunday by about three others. Am going to try your suggestion about the sig and see how it goes.

danny · 1 year ago

Thanks for the great advice. Will be adding an original signature from now on.
Danny

Darth Guru · 1 year ago

This is good advice for your avg person but...

There are some strange side benefits to these blogs and times when they are not always 'spamlogs'. I have actually setup several sites for clients that included some headline posts from related sites to great effect for both.

When use as intended these technologies help all of use distribute and share our data well. Of course on the bad side there are always lazy thieves looking to profit off others efforts.

As a quick side note to benefiting from spammers. They tend to post 100 words or less so good stories get followed to you. They also 80-90% leave link direct back to original story so it helps you getting related link-backs. All dark clouds have silver if scraped well.

Great posting thanks :)

Peace Darth Guru

Terasi Rumah · 1 year ago

this tip don't work for blogs that use FeedBurner plugin, which redirect all the feeds traffic to feedburner.
Because, only a small part of the post is delivered. So, this signature stuff won't be included to the feeds.
Like it is used on my blog.
But there is a problem. I have submitted my blog to an aggegrator. The Aggregator's PR is higher then my blog, so, when google index the aggregator, my post on my blog is buried by the aggregator in the SERP.
Anyone can tell me what i have to do?

Brent Diggs · 1 year ago

I have this problem all the time. Somedays it seems like a conspiracy. Is there a virus on something I can send them?

Greg · 1 year ago

I have this problem on a few of my blogs. A graphic is a good idea though.

Web tools & Tips · 1 year ago

Yes, plagiarism is on the romp these days on the Net. But sure there are way to fight against it.

SEO Zombie@SEO · 1 year ago

I don't get too concerned about splogs. They're annoying when they show up in SERPS, but I'm ok with them scrapping me. Just be sure to include lots of internal links in your post content, and you get free low quality backlinks. And as long as your site has enough authority, there isn't much chance of them out ranking you for your own content. It does sucks to get scrapped by an authority site though when you're new.

Louise@Great Appetizer Recipes · 1 year ago

You can try only putting excerpts instead of the full text of each post. That may help some.

Kevin@Web hosting Ireland. · 1 year ago

I like the idea of having link to your site in each article or post. This way even if autoblog picks post up you still have link to post and google should figure out your the origianl content for the article.

Seonewbie · 1 year ago

Even though splogs scrape your content, they most of the time link back to your original post. The scraped post might even rank better in the SERP for some time. But in the long run you get PR from those backlinks and begin to rank better as the original source. So relax and focus on creating good content that a splogger would want to scrape. That's my experience ;)

tony@Register domian names · 1 year ago

I do not like the sites that pull the top 10 to 30 search results off google or yahoo use the text and do not have any live links to sites. I do not know how you could ever stop those sites google and yahoo would have to remove them from search results.

Robert@ Free Blogging Ebooks · 6 months ago

I think this problem with your stolen content being indexed first from other blogs appear only when you have a new blog. But if you get some backlinks to this article, I think it will rank better in serp then your copies.

rick@lcd tv 32 · 5 months ago

I like to have a link and date in any post i make. This way google knows what site is original content so they know the other is duplicate.

carrol@Photo taking tips and t · 5 months ago

I cannot be.ieve google would give page rank for those blogs. It is against thier own terms and adsense terms. I see alot of them around but do not know why google does not take them off search because they are all duplicate content. Nice ideas like adding link and maybe image to site in post.