We all probably have blogs that are getting scraped by someone, that's just the way it is these days, but here is what's disturbing. I have about 3 blogs that I know get scraped by MFA's. Out of the niche's I currently blog, Business Blogging, Dance Music, and Comedy and Humor..its the business blogging posts that get scraped the most and they are mostly going to Indonesian, Pakistani, Indian, and Filipino SEO or Internet Marketing MFA "blogs". I have other sites that are headline aggregators such as All Top that use 2 of my feeds, which isn't bad since they clearly label the source, Why is there such a great number from these countries? Before anyone goes off and calls me names for pointing this out, I'm not trying to be a jerk, or racist..this is more an economics and education question. I'm just wondering what kind of information is circulating in these countries about making money online that it is so lopsided? Don't we all read the same news sources and participate on the same forums? Don't we all read the same business information? Why such a difference in the way bloggers operate in these countries , compared to other places like Canada, England, France, Germany, Australia, Japan...I never see any scrapers from these places..at least not with my content, Seriously. What's the deal?
This is an interesting post, I didn't realize this was becoming such an issue until just recently. It's obviously getting worse because more people are talking about it. I found this one blog just today that had an article on what to do when your content is getting stolen. I'll try and find it for you and let you know what I come across... * this is the site I saw it on: http://nishantsays.com/ Article:Steps to Take When Someone Copies Your Content
And it's not just the content scraping and autoblogs, it's the splog creation on my MU communities too. The IP addresses, emails, search origin, all coming from those regions or trying to hide behind proxies...all using the exact same tactics..searching for inurl:wp-signup.php, blog inurl:â€wp-signup.phpâ€,. A 5 year old tactic that every blog network owner is hip to by now. Even the ones that try and hide behind proxies are recognizable because of the way the "English" in the spam articles that they try and drop. Or they register blogs using native terms. I know I'm not the only one that see's this.
Um, no. I'm pretty sure that's not it. Using content from other sources is not normal. It's not how it is done.. It's being over done as if it were the status quo. It's not. You would never see a Fortune 500 company start a business blog with the intention of using other people's content..so who are you going to emulate...success or noobs? Believe it or not, many experienced bloggers that have been around for a while, actually write their own blogs...that's why they have been around for a while. Personally, I think it's because some countries are just coming of age online and have a slew of noobs that are repeating all the stuff we already did back in the 90's. So where as most experienced bloggers and webmasters that been around for a few years, have already been through all of the tricks and shortcuts...they haven't so it all looks like new stuff to them. Actually all of the old tactics are coming back around from that area of the world. For instance, the only emails I ever get for link exchanges are from Indian and Pakistani webmasters. Something we used to do a couple of years a go, but quickly figured out that it was useless. To them, I guess it's new stuff.
Somebody sent this to me today via Twitter. Top 10 Countries sending spam. India tops the list. http://www.icsalabs.com/technology-program/anti-spam/spam-data-center#top10http://www.icsalabs.com/technology-program/anti-spam/spam-data-center#top10 I knew I wasn't crazy
Nope. I'm not buying that as an excuse. Most bloggers write their own content. All these arguments seemed to be based on getting content and not creating it. Blogging is just another term for writing? So if you are a blogger, You are a supposed to be a writer.