hi, I am having a problem of site trying to steal my content and pass off as their own. The problem is that these sites copy my content withing seconds of my hitting the publish button. Is there a way to stop these autoblogs from reaching my content?
No, not if they're stealing content from your feed. This has happened to me in the past too, so I make sure I include lots of my links in each article - at least then I'm getting some backlinks and traffic out of it.
I recommend using a lookup on who owns the domain or where it is hosted and contact their host - report they are stealing your content to get them shut down
IT is not the easy way . Let the splogs run just because it is giving you backlinks and traffic as well. They publish at the same time because they have automatic cronjob which enables them to publish as soon as they get pinged by a feed
Use <more> tags, this way splogs will only steal what's before the tag. If you are using Feedburner, you can switch on the Teaser feature. Or you can just disable your RSS feeds.
Not a good option either to report to their host...since i am getting about 3-5 trackbacks a day :-( neither a good option to disable feeds since it is a webmaster blog.... I try to include a lot of links to my posts to but when you post a topic out of context you have nothing to link to :-( Also, since they are posted about the same time as I post, which is the original content as per google?
auto blogs usually have options for that i think....mine mostly get scraped the first paragragh...say "" theanand has a interesting post......{post execerpt}.....click here to read the whole entry... I tried the anti-leech plugin...no idea how to use it though
There's no way to stop them actually... You can just delete their trackbacks and report their sites to Google and Yahoo.
The anti leech (the one that I use) generally only lets you know when people leech your content, rather than stopping them. I'd suggest contacting their host. It's a difficult and thankless task, but it's well worth doing (especially if you value your content). To save time, why not draft up an e-mail to begin with, then you can copy and paste information?
use the 'splogs' to increase your reach. also embed advertising within your RSS feeds. make sure each article has links back to your site if you don't like the 'free advertising' splogs bring, report them to their web host. partial rss feeds also help, and limiting # of posts in the feed
No. Most of the time, people KNOW the rss url's. There's only 2-3 possibilities, so the software just guesses. Actually, it's much easier than finding it in the content. That might work, but is still kind of sketchy. I have blog scrapers out there, and they use a regex replace to kill any URLs within the content. I would set up a css hidden layer at the front of every post, that has some phrase that shows nowhere else on any other site(like tomsampson8382992). Searching for that should bring up any splogs that dupe the content. Not sure though.
It's a total pain in the @ss to deal with them. There are a few ways to screw with them though, like redirecting their IP to a different feed. http://internetmarketingsucks.com/b...logs-or-anyone-stealing-your-content-via-rss/ http://internetmarketingsucks.com/blog/2007/07/27/easily-add-a-footer-to-your-rss-feed/ http://internetmarketingsucks.com/blog/2007/09/19/screwing-with-sploggers-content-thieves/
Google for your article titles, or just wait for crappy trackbacks to show up in your WP admin panel.
The problem is that these splogs are not even recognized by technorati since most are new sites. I usually find them that way. Surely there has to be a way to send these splogs to hell than remove my rss?