My First Attempt To Stop A Splog

Everton | Apr 30, 2007 | View Comments


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.He also writes for Windows 7 News, Windows 8 News and One Tip A Day.

  • 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.
  • Good way is to search for a paragraph of your blog text in the google. The duplicates would pop up in results.
  • How can you find out if your site is being stolen like this?
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Ajay - there's a forum for support.
  • This is really astonishing. Well done on publishing the site name
  • 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.
  • Why do u always looking for php based hosting?

    im running DotNetNuke with ASP.NET Ajax support. This is very cool and flexible framework.
  • mosey
    Kudos to Rich for being part of the discussion :) I have to say I'm amazed by the power of RSS - if only I could make it work that well for me... I'm still trying to show my users how to add feeds to whatever they happen to be using... e.g. My!Yahoo

    Am glad it was all resolved amicably - but what's with the new thing between Ajay and Vinod? I thought the last comment (if that's meant to be swearing at the end) was kinda uncalled for.

    With regards to cheap hosting - I've heard good things about ASmallOrange as well but I haven't used them at all. It may suit your needs. If not, try searching a few webhost directories?

    Alternative - the comments section from this Lifehacker article about free webhosting (quite a few support php/mySQL) maybe useful.
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