Comments on: Blatant Content Plagiarism – Am I To Thank You?

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:10:47 +0000

Ann,

I am personally amazed at him stating to you that he is stealing your content as if it’s a compliment. Amazing. However I can relate to how you feel because I have caught someone plagiarising my content before and so was inspired to write Combating Online Plagiarism I hope that helps.

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By: blackhat

blackhat — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:57:37 +0000

Here is the guy’s Adsense code: pub-1821178384451123

Guess what you can do with that.

By: Ann Smarty

Ann Smarty — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:09:01 +0000

@ATV: taking it as compliment sounds good but not much to be proud of. If my site were older, the thief would stand no chance to do any harm to me.
@Gab: Yeah, you are right, this happens often, but I was just irritated by his stupid comment!
@Kurt: I agree, I contacted blogger and they gave me instructions on how to go on, the process seems to long
@Dan: Thanks for your support.

By: Kurt "BuyBigTires" Hartman

Kurt "BuyBigTires" Hartman — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:20:07 +0000

I have had to deal with content scrapers for articles I have submitted lately. I contacted the article hosting site, and they told me I would have to take it up with the scraper’s hosting company.

To add insult to injury, it ended up on some viagra spam blog. There are about 10 steps that you have to go through to get the content removed. Ultimately, it’s not worth my time to prosecute.

The next step in web development should be making it easier to report scraped and stolen content,

By: Gab "SEO ROI" Goldenberg

Gab "SEO ROI" Goldenberg — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:21:56 +0000

These bums crop up all the time. Unless he outranks you for any of the terms your posts are targeting, it may not be worth fighting over. These people aim for the longtail and just work on volume. Independently, the posts he copies of yours to his sites won’t be helpful (unless he’s paraphrasing them, which is something else entirely). But when combined with content from other places, it might hit long-tail searches your various sites might not get traffic from.

That said, if the issue is more principle, then “sue the bastard,” as one of my profs likes to say !

By: ATV

ATV — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 08:03:59 +0000

In this day and age take it as a compliment.

He’ll get bored of you and move on if he gets no reaction. If he’s using RSS simply look him up and ban him (google for one of many ways of doing this).

My wifes ex husband (and several members of his medication dependant family) regularly check in on my stuff according to detail logs but I’m actually receiving more information about them than they are from me. In the end, it’s pathetic really and reflects on his nature tenfold so don’t waste even a moment stressing about him.

If you’re worried about damage to your site, there is none, search engines can easily spot the thief from the original automaticaly thanks to their own extensive logs.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:44:30 +0000

It kind of reminds me of that commercial I saw on TV of kids saying I want to be underpaid and overworked when I grow up. Nothing is worse than doing all of your research, spending all your efforts on your work and then have some dumb-ass just take your work. Please pursue action against this person… for all our sakes.

By: WeAreTheRobots

WeAreTheRobots — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:49:15 +0000

You’re cute.

Edit: deleted the last part of the comment – but could not bring myself into deleting the flattering thing
Ann

By: Syzlak

Syzlak — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:16:12 +0000

A quick look through his shit sites definitely shows that the guy has been copying anything and everything under the sun. You’re gonna need to just try to shut him down without giving him a chance to stop.