Found a Scraper of my Blog

TechieGuy · #1 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 09:49 AM

I have read in this forum about others who have had their content "stolen" and published on another site.

Today, I was viewing my blog stats and noticed that a visitor arrived from BlogCatalog. I always like visiting the original link to see what it was about. When I went there I noticed a post of mine was listed - but it wasn't linked to my blog.

I visited the blog and notice many of my posts were published (without my permission), and even the images were linked to mine.

I noticed that this blog had over 1000 posts a month - meaning he didn't write it himself and probably is scraping other blogs as well.

A quick search in Google pulled up a few results where someone notified a blog owner of this blog scraping their posts as well.

I reported him to Google (some of my posts on his blog are indexed) as well as AdSense. I'll see if anything comes about. I'll contact the author as well.

nixwebo · #2 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 11:13 AM

Shady, what can a person really do to stop this?

Sounds like a rock and a hard place situation, I hope google at least takes them out of their results for ya

TechieGuy · #3 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 11:25 AM

In the "Contact Me" page:

Quote:

Everything is collected from different sources on the Internet. In case,you want anything to be removed just contact me at [e-mail address]

On the "Disclaimers" page:

Quote:

Contents:The articles mentioned here take a great deal of time to create. If you borrow its content, I'd appreciate a track back and/or acknowledgment. Thank you.

Confused.

lisa · #4 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 11:35 AM

Great timing! I am drafting a blog article as we speak (should be done today) about content thieves because I just recently reported an offender to Google who stole my content AND was an adsense publisher. I normally don't go after thieves 'cause there's just too many but this guy went overboard.

I will mention this site and then link back to your site (to give you credit) This fits right in with what I'm talking about.

lisa · #5 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 11:39 AM

Nevermind. I thought BlogCatalog was a site that reported scrapers. I read this too fast. I see now this was the offender. So scrap that. Of course I won't link to it. When will lazy people learn that shortcuts like this never pay off.

TechieGuy · #6 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 01:54 PM

The funny thing about this is I just published a post on Friday about using Google Alerts to find sites that scrape your content.

In this case it didn't work for me because I hadn't included any links to my site in the posts. I'll do that more often.

lisa · #7 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 03:09 PM

Ahhh, good point!

augenauf · #8 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 07:34 AM

HUMPH! I hope this guy is severely punished! D<

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