Comments on: Ouch – That Hurts

By: valerie

valerie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:55:46 +0000

Oh, I remember what else I wanted to say!

I also use a plugin that will change the words of my feeds to bad sites. Too many bad requests and I can check a box to disallow that agent access to my real words. It also includes several links back which… eh, I’m not so sure about that but it is customizable. That is what I send bitacle.org for example, though I think they’ve finally changed their tactics.

It’s called AntiLeech!

valerie’s last blog post..little boy blue

By: valerie

valerie — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:53:18 +0000

Yes, it’s not that anyone’s reading those sites but that they are making money off of our content. Basically, they’re stealing something and using our hard work to make their money. Not to mention that it can hurt one’s search engine rankings.

Sadly this happens all the time. I’ve now had to put my RSS feeds to excerpts rather than full posts. Though there’s one post out there that keeps getting scraped time and time again in full text so it’s been saved somewhere. That includes my pictures and what not (from Flickr) I only find out about it each time because they also try to reference a flash file on my server since they usually remove all links back for this post. What is really annoying though, is that there’s the one site that keeps doing it time and time again despite my having had my post removed before. And they’re changing the words and now the post is sitting with a picture of a naked woman. I have yet to get that one removed, of course. The words they’ve changed aren’t always to the nicest ones either.

Okay enough ranting. I hate content stealers!!

valerie’s last blog post..little boy blue

By: michelle kostya

michelle kostya — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:09:46 +0000

Darn it, went and checked my spam 15 of them. 12 were just gobbleygook. 2 were some weird one that said some weird comment – then an email address (both exactly the same from a different user) and 1 was a scrape….

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:36:04 +0000

That kinda stinks, but as always Wordpress comes to the rescue. Hey, off topic but would you consider linking to my blog? I promise that I am not a robot. Ed's last blog post..Ouch

By: chelle

chelle — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:28:54 +0000

Even if no one is reading the splogs, they are earning income with each clink they get from a search, they get their rank on a search from STEALING. That is so so wrong.

I have been meaning to add something like this, thanks for the link.

chelle’s last blog post..Wordless Wednesday – #12 – Ethan the Rock Star

By: Nadine

Nadine — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:11:43 +0000

Oh, those spammers. They always come up with new ways to annoy us. I hope Movable Type has a plugin for that too! Nadine's last blog post..The noice that brings silence at cooking time

By: outburst

outburst — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 04:12:53 +0000

I think I understand your concern but does anyone actually read splogs? Sounds to me like they’re bot-driven, which I suppose still requires some programming effort, but it just leaves me scratching my head in terms of the motivation behind it…
It’s like the people who program viagra spam… why?!?!?
Please forgive my ignorance.