Comments on: When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone To Far? http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/ WordPress Themes, Plugins, Hacks, Tutorials, and more! Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:35:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress | WordCast http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1889 WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress | WordCast Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:30:35 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1889 [...] When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone Too Far? via Hack Wordpress [...] [...] When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone Too Far? via Hack WordPress [...]

]]> By: Travis http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1888 Travis Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:53:12 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1888 I have found 4 sites that have in one way or another scraped my content. It wouldn't be so bad if it was just articles they were scraping off of but 2 sites which are from the same owner completely copied and pasted all of my original content onto their sites and are trying to use it to sell their products which happen to be the same type of products as mine. I am going through the legal process to take care of them. Another site registered a domain name one letter off of mine with a similar product to try and scrape my traffic with mispellings, one call to him and he is going to sell me the domain name so that is cool. Threatening legal action can work. The 4th site took all of my content and spun the text to be different but it is all laid out and flowing the same way. I came across this site and thought WOW! deja vu. They tried to tell me they got their content from a corporate website related to their franchise and there is no corporate site to get it from. So again I am going the legal route. I don't have any sympathy for someone that steals content for their own personal gain. Especially when its a competitor doing it. I have found 4 sites that have in one way or another scraped my content. It wouldn’t be so bad if it was just articles they were scraping off of but 2 sites which are from the same owner completely copied and pasted all of my original content onto their sites and are trying to use it to sell their products which happen to be the same type of products as mine. I am going through the legal process to take care of them. Another site registered a domain name one letter off of mine with a similar product to try and scrape my traffic with mispellings, one call to him and he is going to sell me the domain name so that is cool. Threatening legal action can work.
The 4th site took all of my content and spun the text to be different but it is all laid out and flowing the same way. I came across this site and thought WOW! deja vu. They tried to tell me they got their content from a corporate website related to their franchise and there is no corporate site to get it from. So again I am going the legal route.
I don’t have any sympathy for someone that steals content for their own personal gain. Especially when its a competitor doing it.

]]> By: Bitwire Live | WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1887 Bitwire Live | WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:32:29 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1887 [...] When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone Too Far? via Hack Wordpress [...] [...] When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone Too Far? via Hack WordPress [...]

]]> By: Fight Website Content Theft by Filing a DMCA Complaint http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1886 Fight Website Content Theft by Filing a DMCA Complaint Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:00:47 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1886 [...] month I wrote a couple of posts titled When Has Content Theft Gone to Far? and Tips to Deal With Content Theft where I chronicled a website that was stealing a couple of our [...] [...] month I wrote a couple of posts titled When Has Content Theft Gone to Far? and Tips to Deal With Content Theft where I chronicled a website that was stealing a couple of our [...]

]]> By: Jonathan Bailey http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1885 Jonathan Bailey Fri, 16 May 2008 07:30:26 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1885 Well, on one side note, I think the "100 readers" estimation is a bit optimistic. I've done testing and found that it can start from the first post depending on what your topic is. Scrapers will grab anything with the keywords they like and target your feed specifically if it grows large enough. Regarding how I resolve such instances, if it is a human I try to resolve things with a cease and desist letter or some other face to face interaction. If they don't respond or I can't get in contact with them, then I go to the host with a DMCA notice. The latter is becoming more common though. It is a tradition these days to keep contact information off of such sites, especially when using sites such as WordPress.com or Blogger. If you're going to copy and paste content, make sure you can be reached easily... Well, on one side note, I think the “100 readers” estimation is a bit optimistic. I’ve done testing and found that it can start from the first post depending on what your topic is. Scrapers will grab anything with the keywords they like and target your feed specifically if it grows large enough.

Regarding how I resolve such instances, if it is a human I try to resolve things with a cease and desist letter or some other face to face interaction. If they don’t respond or I can’t get in contact with them, then I go to the host with a DMCA notice.

The latter is becoming more common though. It is a tradition these days to keep contact information off of such sites, especially when using sites such as WordPress.com or Blogger.

If you’re going to copy and paste content, make sure you can be reached easily…

]]> By: Bitwire.TV » Blog Archive » WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1883 Bitwire.TV » Blog Archive » WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress Fri, 16 May 2008 01:35:46 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1883 [...] When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone Too Far? via Hack Wordpress [...] [...] When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone Too Far? via Hack WordPress [...]

]]> By: PW http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1879 PW Wed, 14 May 2008 10:29:56 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1879 Hi, how about sending some other content to the scrapers? No searchengine loves spam like viagra for example. Just sotre the ip addresses of the spammers and send them another feed than the original one. Could be done with some .htaccess tricks and believe me, they will stop stealing your content and stop ranking ;-) best regards, Pete Hi,
how about sending some other content to the scrapers?
No searchengine loves spam like viagra for example.
Just sotre the ip addresses of the spammers and send them another feed than the original one.
Could be done with some .htaccess tricks and believe me, they will stop stealing your content and stop ranking ;-)

best regards,
Pete

]]> By: WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress | Kym Huynh http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1884 WordCast 12: Mother of a WordPress | Kym Huynh Tue, 13 May 2008 23:48:56 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1884 [...] When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone Too Far? via Hack Wordpress [...] [...] When Has Stealing Blog Content Gone Too Far? via Hack WordPress [...]

]]> By: Kyle Eslick http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1881 Kyle Eslick Tue, 13 May 2008 16:05:12 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1881 @ Laurence - I'm not sure that I'm an authority on avoiding this as it happened to me, but I can certainly think of a few things that could help which might make for a good post. I will credit you with the idea! :mrgreen: @ Laurence – I’m not sure that I’m an authority on avoiding this as it happened to me, but I can certainly think of a few things that could help which might make for a good post.

I will credit you with the idea! :mrgreen:

]]> By: Laurence http://wphacks.com/when-has-stealing-blog-content-gone-to-far/#comment-1880 Laurence Tue, 13 May 2008 14:58:58 +0000 http://wphacks.com/?p=554#comment-1880 Yes this is incredibly frustrating. Maybe you could write an article on here describing ways to avoid this happening? That would be most useful. And yes, manual scrapers are the worst! Yes this is incredibly frustrating. Maybe you could write an article on here describing ways to avoid this happening? That would be most useful.

And yes, manual scrapers are the worst!

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