Comments on: Blog Scraping – How to deal with it?

By: How to contact a blogger or website owner?

How to contact a blogger or website owner? — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:31:33 +0000

[...] of the blog readers asked me this question via email a couple of days back. In your post about feed scraping you talked about contacting anonymous scrapers. How can I really do [...]

By: Smokey

Smokey — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:50:23 +0000

If someone refuses to take your content off their site you can also pursue different copyright/spam reporting avenues

http://www.search-marketing.info/search-engines/report-spam.htm

By: Kim Woodbridge

Kim Woodbridge — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:45:59 +0000

I read somewhere that if the site contains google ads that you can also report them to google. If they lose their ad revenue, then there really isn't much point to the scraping.I do not think that we should switch to partial feed. I don't unsubscribe from sites that use them but it really annoys me. I also don't like taking a service away from the "good" people as a way to combat the "bad" ones.Kim Woodbridge's last blog post... 5 Most Popular (Anti) Social Posts of All Time

By: Jacques Snyman

Jacques Snyman — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:48:54 +0000

It is a concern that one’s hard work can so easily be plagiarised and actually undo some of the good work you’ve done in the process. It is actually damn unfair, and the perpetrators should be held accountable and stripped of any search rankings they might have gained through indulging in this nonsense.

By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:27:41 +0000

@John, thanks for your comment. I shall read your post on email scraping.

@Shanker, I was doing much the same by just approving those trackbacks thinking that they are genuine.

@Raju, you are right. I am all for full feed…

@Chetan, how to edit htaccess is not in my scope However, you could use the Deny from ‘IP Address’ commands to deny selected clients.

By: Chetan

Chetan — Sat, 09 May 2009 06:54:42 +0000

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By: Raju

Raju — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:25:52 +0000

Partial feed option will surely pisses off your readers. I personally do not subscribe to any blog which offers partial feed (it defeats the purpose of Feed, isn’t it?).

By: Shanker Bakshi

Shanker Bakshi — Fri, 08 May 2009 06:52:12 +0000

Oops !! initially i was confirming these pingbacks n my blog thought that someone has linked to my post. But yes i know that these are auto targeted links and scarping you valuable contents.

By: John

John — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:50:14 +0000

glad you like the post… I wrote an article about scraping via email. In it, I detailed how spam bloggers, especially those using Blogspot, .

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By: Ajith Prasad

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:44:19 +0000

Hi everyone,
Thanks for your views… In fact, the other option mentioned by Raju and Arun really works if you have contact information. I just proved it handy to remove one scraper yesterday

I am yet to try the partial feed option as suggested by Ramesh though I still prefer providing full feed to the subscribers.

@Rads, for blogger, I do not know any gadget that might show the backlinks but you could always use a backlink checker tool to see if scraping is taking place on your latest posts. I guess, usually it’s less found on atom feeds.

@Luis (Archies), I didn’t quite understand your method. Could you elaborate?

PS: I have highlighted the other options mentioned by the commenters so that readers can be benefited

By: Tech @ InkAPoint

Tech @ InkAPoint — Thu, 07 May 2009 04:56:24 +0000

Since most of the sploggers and spammers are using random ip's and proxies, it is stil hard to block them.Tech @ InkAPoint's last blog post... 4 Major Threats to Your Domain Name

By: Harsh Agrawal

Harsh Agrawal — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:26:34 +0000

Though the sad part is point 4 and point 5 doesn’t work in most of the case because of hosting company TOS and blogging platform rules .

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By: Ramesh Natarajan

Ramesh Natarajan — Tue, 05 May 2009 16:09:08 +0000

One more option you’ve missed in your list. This option is not popular in the MMO and blogs-about-blogging world. This may not work for blogs like yours, as your readers are primarily other bloggers, who may get upset and unsubscribe if you change to partial feed.

Option#6 – Don’t publish full feed. Instead publish summary only in your feed

Personally, I had lot of issues with scrappers. I’m seriously considering option#4 and #5 you’ve mentioned above. But, it will take some time to really eliminate all those aggressive scrappers. Some splogs are so good, they look very professional and google even thinks their content is original and not mine.

When I switched to partial-feed (recently), I’ve pretty much eliminated all the scrapping overnight. However, I’m sure few of regular readers would’ve unsubscribed.

Down the road, once I take care of all scrappers using option#4 and #5, I will consider switching back to full-feed

By: Arun Basil Lal

Arun Basil Lal — Tue, 05 May 2009 12:06:39 +0000

Hi,

I would have dealt with some of them myself. I sent a simple email to many of them and it worked! Thats the easiest of all.

If you are going with point 5, (the most interesting of all the above ) I have some findings and resources here: Sue Copyright Infringers

Leave them a polite email, else go with point 5! it works really well

Arun

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By: Kurt Avish

Kurt Avish — Tue, 05 May 2009 04:44:08 +0000

I get tons of these damn scraps everyday. Till now I have only been deleting them. I gonna try the plugin you gave above. There are mostly many of those made-for-google-trend ONLY blogs or suppose-to-look-like news websites that does this. Normally if someone has use a part of what i have written and added his opinion then I approve it but there are many when you go to have a look at the site, its clear that they are using wp-o-matic to process the feeds. I simple click spam them and then delete.But the antileech plugin seem fun. Gonna try. Thanks for sharing.Kurt Avish's last blog post... World Photo Focus Weekly - Episode 2

By: rads

rads — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:47:37 +0000

Hmm is there a way to find this out in blogger? Coz I'm using blogger and I've no idea if anybody out there is copying and getting away with my content.rads's last blog post... Wuthering Heights

By: Nihar

Nihar — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:51:08 +0000

Ajith,

When i post some cricket related posts. Immediately i got trackbacks. I noticed it but never did much. I just don;t approve it.

Just leaving like will affect my blog SEO? Which step should i follow.

Which one should i choose to stop Blog Scraping…

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By: Archie

Archie — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:51:53 +0000

Most scraper bots remove links from the post title to the blogger’s blog. But if you link to another post from your new post most of the time it doesn’t get removed. You can try linking to another post in your firs sentence or second since most scrapers only use a snippet. This way you have chances of scoring a link if the feed gets scraped. Not the best link but hey a link is a link. You double the fun if your older post was linked to by a keyword. Something I learned from good ol’ Vic from Blogger Unleashed.

By: Raju

Raju — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:19:13 +0000

More often than not, a simple mail to the owner of the blog will suffice. But at times I had to contact the host giving them the exact details. Couple of times the account got suspended as well. I do not think IP ban, usage of plugin etc are effective and reliable.Raju's last blog post... [TP : TimePass] Winnie the Pooh and Swine Flu