My First Attempt To Stop A Splog
Everton | Apr 30, 2007 | Comments 28
Have a quick look at http://www.rich-bate.co.uk/ – anything look familiar? This has got to be the worst content stealer I’ve ever come across.
Normally I can’t be bothered to do anything, but this is going too far so I’ve followed Feedburner’s advice and fired off an email to Google Adsense.
I’ll let you know how I get on. If it works I will do the same for all future splogs.
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About the Author: Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK.
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Hi Everton…
I hv finally moved to Wordpress and implemented the TypoXP theme. But hv some problems wth ths theme. Like How can I add my own Image in header. And also how can i transfer all my blogs from Blogger. When I am entering my user name and passweord of blogger it is telling incorrect U name and Pwd.
This is really astonishing. Well done on publishing the site name
Ajay – there’s a forum for support.
My relatively small blog was struck by content thieves on three occasions within its first year! Everyone is a potential target. Fortunately, I was able to deal with these incidents rather quickly. This was before I had moved to Wordpress. Now, I’m using a number of tools to help with some of this. We’ll see how they work.
What tools are you using?
BTW I know you are trying to create nice links to your site, but it’s hard to have a conversation with ‘Make A Guitar’! If I add a link to my sidebar will you please stop and use a proper name?
How can you find out if your site is being stolen like this?
Good way is to search for a paragraph of your blog text in the google. The duplicates would pop up in results.
setup google alerts for your url so that you can see who is genuinely linking to your posts that might have been missed by Technorati and WP, as well as the splogs using your content.