Comments on: Being Scraped? Here is Something You Can Do. http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/ It's like that story in D. Hofstadter's book about the Tortoise, Achilles and the Djinni who pushed and popped their way into nested levels of awareness, only it's a blog. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:38:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: Brian http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-606 Brian Fri, 20 Apr 2007 15:46:08 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-606 Great idea, a little bit more work than I'd like, but it works. Since the scrapers almost always use Adsense, I've found that sending an e-mail to adsense-abuse@google.com with a note that they have duplicate content (a violation of their TOS) usually gets the site taken down (sometimes within 48 hours). Alternatively (or in addition to), just make sure you add a lot of link backs to your previous posts. That way, the people reading your scraped content come to your site. Great idea, a little bit more work than I’d like, but it works. Since the scrapers almost always use Adsense, I’ve found that sending an e-mail to adsense-abuse@google.com with a note that they have duplicate content (a violation of their TOS) usually gets the site taken down (sometimes within 48 hours).

Alternatively (or in addition to), just make sure you add a lot of link backs to your previous posts. That way, the people reading your scraped content come to your site.

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]]> By: » Weekly Blog Roundup, Warm Weather Edition on Consumerism Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-615 » Weekly Blog Roundup, Warm Weather Edition on Consumerism Commentary: A Personal Finance Blog Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:12:54 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-615 [...] Meta Best Blog Win, I wrote about what bloggers and webmasters can do to prevent their blog’s feeds from being scraped and repub... by nasty thieves who are out to make money on someone else’s [...] […] Meta Best Blog Win, I wrote about what bloggers and webmasters can do to prevent their blog’s feeds from being scraped and repub… by nasty thieves who are out to make money on someone else’s […]

]]> By: links for 2007-04-24 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-624 links for 2007-04-24 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:24:36 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-624 [...] Being Scraped? Here is Something You Can Do. at Meta Best Blog Win If your RSS feed is being “scraped” and republished in full somewhere else — as is currently happening to my main blog, Consumerism Commentary — you run two important risks. (tags: rss tips seo) [...] […] Being Scraped? Here is Something You Can Do. at Meta Best Blog Win If your RSS feed is being “scraped” and republished in full somewhere else — as is currently happening to my main blog, Consumerism Commentary — you run two important risks. (tags: rss tips seo) […]

]]> By: Nick http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-639 Nick Fri, 27 Apr 2007 18:36:59 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-639 It's never too late to do something about entries that have already been scraped. I've found DMCA notices to ISPs an effective way to deal with such matters. It’s never too late to do something about entries that have already been scraped. I’ve found DMCA notices to ISPs an effective way to deal with such matters.

]]> By: Ryan Dlugosz http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-669 Ryan Dlugosz Thu, 03 May 2007 13:48:40 +0000 http://metabestblogwin.com/2007/04/19/being-scraped-here-is-something-you-can-do/#comment-669 It seems like FeedBurner could pretty effectively offer this as a service. They could go one step further and use their community of users to identify the scrapers and blacklist them for everybody. It seems like FeedBurner could pretty effectively offer this as a service. They could go one step further and use their community of users to identify the scrapers and blacklist them for everybody.

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