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How Do I Stop A Splogger?
Posted by mobiwan • 7/27/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: splog help
I've got a wordpress blog, how can I go about blocking a blog that is sucking in my feed and integrating it as their own content?
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I just asked in a stern sort of way, and the website that was copying me removed the copy:
www.upcsite.net/content/google_can_be_frustrating.html
I imagine it might not be that easy for you, do you know how they are doing it? Is it scraping your feed? I know I've read lots of suggestions on how to deal with this, but I can't remember any of them right now. If I remember, I'll get back to you.-
They're scraping my feed and many others.
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Make ten posts about how the bloke/woman is a stealing your content, then watch them appear on the site and delete them from your site -
Or post at the bottom of the post 'If your reading this somewhere other than ******** it has been copied, please leave a rude comment and click on their google ads thousands of times'
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Clicking their google ads a thousand times... good one!
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Oddly enough it's not monitized.
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"..a blog that is sucking in my feed.."
One way is to configure your feed system to deny the offending site(s). -
I did a quick search, didn't really find any plug-ins that blacklist/bans certain sites. Instead I found "Angsuman's Feed Copyrighter" @ codex.wordpress.org/Plugins/Syndication
Maybe it is useful.
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Well, I installed that plugin but I'm not seeing it have any impact.
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Get all of us here to overload his blog with comments against him
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Nice idea! It's this joker (www.wirelessarticles.com) but the blog won't allow users to sign up to leave comments and the domain owner appears to be the IT Contact at the host though I've not run that to ground yet.
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appears to be down
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It's back.
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Excerpt from blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-to-automatically-add-c...
"Note:
The copyright message is displayed only when full text of the articles are syndicated."-
I've got full text enabled.
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wirelessarticles.com is that the one
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Yeah... they're givin me that nice PR 0 juice
I'm seeing if I can get this plugin to work
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This plugin doesn't work; it loads and will let you configure it but none of the changes are saved back to the database.
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There is currently no default document set for this directory. To create a default document, create a file in this directory named either "Default.asp" or "Default.htm" or go to the "parking" section in your webhosting control panel.
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"wirelessarticles.com" seems to be a "WP-Autoblog", and stealing content with this plugin is obviously easy. The splogger doesn't have to do anything. It´s fully automatized. Original posts made by you and a software made by Elliott Back.
elliottback.com/wp/archives/2006/06/06/wp-autoblog-a-syndication-plugin/.
Not meant for sploggers. But there are groups of people out there who will make their living by stealing other people´s hard work and clutter the Internet with junk. It is sad.
Not all sploggers use ads. Ad revenue isn’t the main purpose.
There’s much more that I could say here, but I won´t.-
So what would be the purpose? Pretend they are a professional and have a blog for their c.v.? What am I missing?
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Can you figure out who is hosting the thing? Maybe they would care.
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The whole site wants reporting they host domain names they are selling and add copied content to all of them
domainsource.com/search.asp?nxtrec=140&recos=20&sort=W
If you are interested in possibly purchasing the domain WIRELESSARTICLES.COM. Please fill out the following form. Our staff will get back to you within 24 hours. We have been helping people get great domain names for 6 ½ years. It is a pleasure to serve you!
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Give the twat a call
They in turn are hosted by these www.registrarpdq.com
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Some interesting articles on domainsource
www.animenewsnetwork.com/feature/2001-01-10
www.ericdalton.com/
www.domainstatute.com/domain-name-disputes/naf4/741767.html-
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It appears that they might be susceptable to a sql injection attack
Lets see how they like having that posted about their site.... something like truncate tablexyz comes to mind!
But I don't endorse that
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He can be found here
www.dnforum.com/member.php?u=7222
discussingdomains.com/forums/showthread.php?t=233
www.thebizofknowledge.com/PressReleases/release2858.php
Had a lot of cases against him including sky,amazon,beegees and shit loads more
Got a few phone numbers as well
whois.ws/whois-org/ip-address/businessweek.org/
robinsruffian.proboards18.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=whatsupwithour... -
Thanks a bunch! I'm gonna try a DMCA notice to the host and see if I can get the site shut down.
This is the first time I've tried this so I'll Document how to do that here for other bloggers that are having their posts scrapped.
If I was hosting my own feed I'd be able to block this site from my .htaccess file but I host it at FeedBurner.-
Doesnt it go through your site before it gets to feedburner, im sure it does
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It does but I don't know how I'd filter this site out because they can just snag my feed from Feedburner. I'd have to move my feed back to my site and then I can filter but I suspect they'd follow that up with proxy requests.
My concern is that I just got my blog off the ground and I'm floating between 80-90 readers, I think I'll lose some ground there if I move the feedback. Anyone else run into this dilemma? -
It just seems strange that he hasnt been shut down yet what with all the high profile lawsuits against him, says a lot for the net if hes still going.
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Mobiwan: I have been dealing with a splogger ... done this and done that... searching for e-mail addresses, reporting abuse to the host, writing a DMCA notice, made splog reports ....... The site is still up and running and has reached PR3 by now. It was a Wordpress splog too, and they are becoming more and more popular.
I changed my feed. No more scraping of my blog, but I lost feed readers.-
Thanks, I'll let you know how it goes for me. How did you find info on writing your DMCA notice or did you have an attorney handle that for you?
Update: I found a sample take down notice here:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
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No, you don´t need an attourney. Most hosts accept email DMCA notices. So take the notice, add in your own information and send it.
You will find an example of "DMCA Notice of Copyright Infringement Letter" here: futurequest.net/Services/TOS/DMCA/DMCANotice.php. -
block their ip from your feed, use domain tools ( www.domaintools.com/ ) to find their servers ip, while your their find their hosting provider and send them an email.
If you complain to their hosting provider and they do not respond write a post to this message board www.webhostingtalk.com/
Ask your hosting provider to block their ip address, Also I remember finding a wordpress plugin that did the same.-
The thing is, I've got FeedBurner hosting my feed. Makes me wonder if that was the right decision because now I've lost this control and it's critical to me because of things like duplicate content issues and 0 PR links pointing back to my site. It looks like a bad neighborhood thing.
I wonder what would happen if Google were to crawl and index the splog prior to mine and where that would leave my site from a duplicate content standpoint.
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This really sucks!
How did you find his site copying your content?-
It started showing up in my wordpress inbound links, so I went looking to see if a backlink or comment was worthy on my part and that's when I realized what was going on.
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Odd timing, I just checked my technorati links and there is a spam blog on their that has picked up one of my posts. WTF?
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There is one other thought, I know google will ban a site for such a thing if they have google ads on their site. I'm not sure but I think most ad services are starting to take the same stance.
Here's where yo need to go to inform google
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Google might de-index it anyway if you report it to them, just because it doesn't do anything of value for anyone, regardless of any AdSense on it or not.
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