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My First Attempt To Stop A Splog

April 30th, 2007 • Related • Filed Under

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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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. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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#28

Comment by Everton on 10 May 2007:

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.
#27

Comment by Vinod @ VinodLive on 10 May 2007:

Good way is to search for a paragraph of your blog text in the google. The duplicates would pop up in results.
#26

Comment by Mark from Bloglyne.com on 10 May 2007:

How can you find out if your site is being stolen like this?
#25

Comment by Everton on 8 May 2007:

Now, Iâ€™m using a number of tools to help with some of this. Weâ€™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?
#24

Comment by Make A Guitar on 8 May 2007:

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.
#23

Comment by Everton on 2 May 2007:

Ajay - there’s a forum for support.
#22

Comment by Windows Tips on 2 May 2007:

This is really astonishing. Well done on publishing the site name
#21

Comment by Ajay on 2 May 2007:

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.