Comments on: Fighting back against the scrapers

By: Martin Bay

Martin Bay — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:47:11 +0000

Thanks for the good post. I've just added some of these tips to my site. Google just dropped my site from page three to nowhere? I'm really not impressed with google it should not be that difficult to identify scrapers!

By: kredit move

kredit move — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:12:07 +0000

Thanks for your Tipps!

By: Flug Brasilien

Flug Brasilien — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:37:08 +0000

It´s a really nasty problem, especially google will punish your blog because of duplicate content. the only thing you can do is to prosecute because of copyright violation, what can be a longsome way.

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By: A Wordpress plugin that help fight scrapers and copycats | DailySEOblog

A Wordpress plugin that help fight scrapers and copycats | DailySEOblog — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:03:14 +0000

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By: Control WordPress Duplicate Content with Excerpts

Control WordPress Duplicate Content with Excerpts — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:04:09 +0000

[...] Google has mentioned many times that they strive to choose the best page to present to searchers, but they agree that if you want to take that decision out of Google’s hands, then you need to prevent duplicate content from appearing on your site in the first place. Obviously, we are talking about internal duplicate content, as that is what you have control over. If other sites are stealing your content, you need to take other measures. Kevin gives good tips on dealing with scum-sucking scrapers here. [...]

By: How to stop someone hotlinking your images

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Weekly Links << Vandelay Website Design — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:36:58 +0000

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By: Allan

Allan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 16:26:01 +0000

Allan – Can you define what you mean by republishing your feed? If you mean someone reproducing all the content from a blog I run without permission then I'd label them the same as scrapers

By: Allan

Allan — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 05:05:56 +0000

I have just written a post on RSS republishing.

What are your views on webmasters republishing your feed with attribution or part of your feed?

By: Charles Lau

Charles Lau — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:02:03 +0000

It is terrible to see pingbacks only from scrapers… Some of them even claimed to be "inspired" by our blogs…

Thanks for the tip…

By: Kevin

Kevin — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:19:55 +0000

Bill – How did you do this? ie. it's fairly straight forward to use a banner or logo instead of an image when they hotlink but how do you turn that image into a link to your blog. Did you use htaccess?

CT – I'm surprised that a scraper would choose a blog which uses a partial feed. If I was a scraper I would want to rip off a feed that had more content. Though I probably shouldn't be surprised, some of the guys are too lazy to even check the feed their ripping off!

I actually agree with the wolf on this one. I think that providing a good experience for your readers should be above trying to get more page views.

Mani – no problem bud.

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 23:06:55 +0000

Kev, Thanks for notifying about the feed copyrighter plugin.

By: CT Moore

CT Moore — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:32:57 +0000

Good post, but the thing about partial feeds is that they don't really stop anyone. I know for a fact that the SearchAnyway Blog gets scraped regardless of a partial feed. And you're right, it really pisses off reader. For example: http://www.wolf-howl.com/blogs/putting-partial-fe...