So, google doesn't like autobloggers -- and us webmasters don't neither - so what does this mean? For now if you see an autoblog site - report their adsense to Google Why? It helps us webmasters do better on search, and earn more site revenue - because the autobloggers are hurting the "webmasters" business - and its only blackhat SEO and quite frankly - Google already smashed on a ton of websites, and they'll continue to ban/remove autoblogs from their index. So, guess what? You run an auto blog? LOL to you because you won't last in 2011 - it's a new era and quality websites are going to start ranking well, and quite frankly, we're sick and tired of "Auto blogs", you don't provide anything unique to the internet - you just copy other people's work Which means - you guys steals - so guess what? If we see an auto blog here on Digitalpoint - your account will be reported - and we'll make a thread for adsense support members to find your site - why? Because you guys steal our content - and really, its not funny, you thieves. Who here feels the same way of autobloggers?
Copying is not stealing, no matter how many times you repeat it. Stealing is the act of taking something from someone unlawfully. Copying doesn't take anything from anyone. You can call it counterfeit and copyright infrigement, but it's not thieving. That' being said, it's true that autoblogs are meant to be penalized, for those who have some, it's only a matter of time, and then you'll have to create some more, until google doesn't even bother indexing them at all even if new. Enjoy it while it lasts!
I can certainly see where you are coming from FC, but by definition stealing is "to permanently deprive the owner of" so one would have to agree with James on this issue, but it does seem like theft when you see your own work on another site, it is very annoying to say the least. In view of Google's policies on Autoblogs, I see very little point in building them, if the people that do build them put as much effort into building their own unique website, they would, in a short space of time, have a proper long-term business, that, with continued work and effort, may one day be worth tens of thousands of dollars. I am not sure personally I could report Autobloggers to Google, because it would take up most of my day, I see hundreds of them even now, and just think they are a pain in a**, but always use the back button to get off the site, never an ad. One thing's for sure, Autobloggers ain't going to last long here.
Creating mess for others is a sign of a low life....Get over it and move on mahn! Seriously! I dont support content scrapper either, but still, i'd rather mind my own business and work on what i have instead of chasing what i dont have!
Ok, copying is not stealing exactly considering that for it to mean stealing one has to gain and the other has to have a loss(according to lawbooks) how it still is a snake in the grass, I don't respect myself, I'm not a role model to my children type of thing to do. Oh yeah, change your avatar back. I'm a visual type of person and it was hard to reconize you. Forgotten, you are very successful online because you worked hard for it but others like myself are not extremely successful who worked hard so quit being a baby. What the heck do you have to complain about?
I'm not complaining, I don't know what you mean exactly, I don't understand your point. Or maybe you misunderstood me as I'm not complaining I'm just rectifying when someone keeps on repeating the big lie from entertainment industry. No we don't steal when we copy. Sorry about the change of avatar
My mind is my own business - I work online - and I'm killing the autobloggers. Our content network succeeds any of the sites you auto bloggers have - why get mad? Get glad that I'm talking about you.
Google is really cracking down on autobloggers and people with crappy contents in general. There are many other ways to make money so don't give up.
Instead of putting so much time and effort into reporting others and trying to take away from their business, whether you agree with their business or not, put that time and effort into your own business and make something truly amazing and impress us. Your post is fairly malicious and threatening, and frankly inappropriate. If an 'auto-blog' is truly hurting your own rankings and earning, then you have other issues out side of an auto blog. Google and the search engines already account for these things. If you've posted the content first, as unique, on your website, Google is going to rank you highest for that content. An auto-blog CAN NOT and WILL NOT out rank a genuine competitor in any way, whatsoever. Do not waste your time hunting down and reporting auto-bloggers, it is low, and will only hurt others. EDIT: If it is your own business keep it to yourself, do not try to start a malicious clan against a group of auto-bloggers. I am not supporting them, it just isn't worth your headaches to go after them. You also mention your content succeeds any of the auto bloggers websites. So what is the issue here? You are already beating them, thus there is no battle to fight here.
Auto bloggers are scum bags. I'm trigger happy to start court action against anybody who thinks they can re-publish my content with out consent.
Ok, let's get some things straight--autoblogging isn't stealing, stealing is stealing. There are thousands of legitimate uses for autoblogging and some of the biggest sites in the world are nothing more than big autoblogs. To say that fair use of your content is stealing your content is absurd. You remind me of those newspapers that sue Google for linking to their articles from news.google.com. Yes if someone takes your entire article and claiming it as their own that is stealing (semantics aside) and that is abuse of autoblogging software. But most autobloggers don't take all your content, they often excerpt and link to your content and give you credit. And just because someone does that, doesn't mean the site is junk, there are some very cool autoblogs out there that have many regular readers and subscribers. For example, I just set up an autoblog at http://newexploits.com/wordpress/ that tracks wordpress security issues by monitoring content from many different sources which is cool because now I can monitor the stuff all in one place. That site uses small (fair use) excerpts, links to the original article (from a page packed with relevant keywords), and if you view the source for one of the article pages you will see that we even set the syndication-source meta tag so that google even knows where the content was originally taken from. These are all things you can set with our product. Yes that site has no original content but it is nonetheless useful and the aggregate of the excerpts is what makes the content original. I wish I could point you to some of our customer blogs (I wouldn't do that without their permission), but you wouldn't believe some of the huge sites that are really nothing more than autoblogs running with our software. A blanket criticism of autoblogs really shows that you haven't been paying attention to the internet lately. The whole concept of viral means that stuff gets passed around. Inevitably, if you have good content there will be excerpts of it all over the place. The key is to promote your brand within your content and embrace the unavoidable aggregation that will occur. On our own site we publish full content feeds and hope as many people out there will steal anything we write. Oh and if you are reporting sites stealing and profiting from the content of others start with this one: http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/. That site looks like they are taking entire screenshots of sites (stripping out the original ads) and monetizing it with their own ads (after you click on a thumbnail). Google really should ban that site's adsense account for doing that.
I think Google means business these days; I have encountered many autoblog sites that have empty Adsense spots where the ads used to be, which confirms they got banned. I think that is only fair, because autoblogging is simply freeloading off the work of someone else. Even if you don't want to call it stealing, or whatever you want to call it...........I'll call it freeloading. So, yes, if you find autoblogs copying or scraping your site, I think you should report those sites to Google and leave it to them to take action. Even if no action is taken, it should send a message that freeloading is simply not acceptable. I know a lot of people out there just want to get something for nothing. It's human nature (for most anyway).