Comments on: WordPress Blogs Feeds Scraped

By: HMTKSteve

HMTKSteve — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:12:51 +0000

I had a blogger on wordpress.com steal my content a while back, change a few of the links and get it on the digg homepage! Lucky for me someone tipped me off and within an hour it was removed from digg and their wordpress.com blog was removed as well.

By: Gerri

Gerri — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:10:34 +0000

I was not aware of “scraping”, I’ve always just called it stealing.. but I had no idea they had bots to do it. What’s the point? Of course they are getting “free” content, but in addition to wrecking your search engine listings they are wrecking their own… and if they are so lazy they can’t even produce content, how are they getting visitors to their scraped content blogs?

By: Carl Coddington

Carl Coddington — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 03:06:08 +0000

I agree. But, unfortunately, people are going to scrape content no matter what. So.. it’s best to be able to fight back and get a little piece of the action.

By: Rose DesRochers

Rose DesRochers — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:29:25 +0000

Carl, I’m actually using the Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter, which inserts copyright messages into Feeds. Hmm, maybe I should insert my address in there too.

Either way I don’t want sploggers making money from my content.

In my case recently, my content was not scraped, but used from an article directory and my byline was removed.

By: Carl Coddington

Carl Coddington — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:14:45 +0000

I would put my website address and contact info in the middle of every article and comment…. Then, the scraping would work for your advantage