Blog Content Being Syndicated Without Credit

Discussion in 'Copywriting' started by Affers, Nov 9, 2006.

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  1. #1
    Hi guys,
    I don't have a clue about this sort of thing but I've just found a site that seems to be posting quite a few of the articles from my sports blog - and yet doesn't have a single link back to my site. Surrounding my articles are loads of Google ads and I've no doubt that they're making money from posting my work.

    I cannot find a contact address on the site and I've checked the DNS records and all they have is a postal address in Bangkok.

    1.) As creator of those articles, am I within my right to have them credited to me or taken down?

    2.) How would I go about getting them taken down with no contact information available?

    Any help greatly appreciated.
     
    Affers, Nov 9, 2006 IP
  2. mad4

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    Add something in your htaccess file to either block their IP or send them some stupid content full of porn links. Thats assuming they are scraping it from your feeds.

    You may want to stop publishing full feeds.
     
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  3. Affers

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    I have no idea how to do that via .htaccess. I'm rather simple ;)

    As for publishing full feeds, I have a number of 'proper' sites that syndicate the news from the site so it wouldn't be fair to disable it :(
     
    Affers, Nov 9, 2006 IP
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    #4
    If they're hosted in the US, then contact the host directly and have them take the site down.

    If they're hosted outside the US then there isn't much you can do other than adjust your RSS feeds to not display the whole article.
     
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  5. Chicago

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    I agree with this comment. Couldn't you also look up the Google/Yahoo adsense ID in the page source and contact Google/Yahoo that this user is using your unique content and is basically scraping stuff? I hear Google doesn't care for double content but I'm really not sure if they would actually aide you in that. You do deserve some action though from someone.
     
    Chicago, Nov 11, 2006 IP
  6. abdussamad

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    You could always use snail mail. I hear its still used by some. Seriously though you should contact the website host. whois.sc usually tells you which host is being used or gives you some clues.
     
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  7. daone

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    If you use internal links on your posts at least you will have some links back to your blog :)

    Here is how to fake your RSS feeds to protect you from these kind of problems - http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/?p=287
     
    daone, Nov 13, 2006 IP
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    Excellent article! Thanks for sharing.
     
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    You could add an individual password for each of these sites so you'll always know who is requesting your full content.
     
    mikkom, Nov 14, 2006 IP