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Re: Content Thieving Splog is OFFLINE!

Sean@Super Pocket Bikes — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:25:33 -0000

According to an article on Web Pro News about 33% off all blogs in the blogosphere are spam blogs. It's a very high but realistic number and it shows that the battle with spam blogs with scraped content will be though.

P.S. This girl is Raven Riley if someone was curious.

Re: Content Thieving Splog is OFFLINE!

Alex@Broker Price Opinion — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:27:41 -0000

I was a victim a couple times now. At least have the humility to change the content a little. The funny thing is google hasn't got them with the duplicate content.

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A2SavvyGirl — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 07:40:15 -0000

Thanks saved to Delicious, came here from AG post. Great information.

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Phil — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 03:37:19 -0000

Predictably, the "underaged" girl image they've posted is ripped off from a porn site (except the WOG bit, which they of course have added).

Re: Content Thieving Splog is OFFLINE!

Ed Cassady — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:05:39 -0000

Good job,

Jay, your swift action may keep others from doing the same thing. When my site was scraped, with advice from the Hot Tub, I got the other agent to remove everything but the scraped title and keywords.

Re: Content Thieving Splog is OFFLINE!

Maurice (TheCaymanHost) — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:50:33 -0000

Jay, thanks for dropping by and leaving your kind words.

I wish I'd had this article to refer to a while back when I posted about content scraping and RSS feeds.

Excellent post with an amusing undertone and some great resources and the right outcome. It's a shame to have to take the time to report these misuses but it proves that it is often worth the effort......

I found a site the other day that had completely ripped off a section of html from one of my pages and pasted it straight into their own. I had to laugh because it was chock full of affiliate links and by some miracle it generated a sale for me :-)

now, let's see where's that feed of yours for scraping? Just kidding ;-)

Re: Content Thieving Splog is OFFLINE!

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:34:17 -0000

You're very welcome for all o the help that my site was able to provide. I'm glad it was of service.

To answer your question about who did what, I took a look at the main site and it is showing the domain default page. That is typical of when a host yanks a site.

However, the subdomain, the one with the image, is interesting as the link is giving a 200 (ok) code. My guess is that, when the host took down the main site the splogger quickly threw that up on the subdomains to avoid having them removed in the same manner.

All in all though, it appears to be a smashing victory. Also, I'll be sure to add Yellowfiber to my DMCA list.

I'm glad that this ended well. Please let me know if I can help with a case in the future!

Re: Content Thieving Splog is OFFLINE!

Michael Krotchie — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 09:02:47 -0000

Nice work Jay, and extra kudos for laying out exactly what you had to do to make it happen. I'm sure it will help out a lot of other bloggers!

Re: Content Thieving Splog is OFFLINE!

AprilGroves — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:57:46 -0000

Way to get it done, Jay