Comments on: The Friday gathering – Annoying scrapers addition

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:10:55 +0000

Great job with the image. ;)

And thanks for the link. :)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:32:47 +0000

Hey Gibble,

Thanks mentioning the FICO Formula and for your kind feedback. I really like your scraper image too. That’s smart!

By: glblguy

glblguy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:07:35 +0000

@Nicole/thefrugalhousewife – I see the trackbacks show up. I always include links back to my articles with the full URL path, that way went they post my content I receive a trackback. I use a plugin called no-self-pings to keep my posts from placing trackbacks on my own articles. Just like Squawkfox said.

@thefrugalhousewife – Thank you! Glad to have you as a reader!

@Squawkfox – I figured it would. I kind of hoped they might get the message :-)

By: Squawkfox

Squawkfox — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:57:14 +0000

Hey GLBL!

This post got splogged too. :(
I’ve almost given up on sploggers. I hope to outrank my own splogged content by seeing more incoming links to the original post. So I thank you for the mention!

@frugalhousewife You’ll discover your splogged content by seeing incoming links to your posts. By visiting those links you’ll see your entire post copied, or scraped. It doesn’t feel good, so I hope you never see it happen.

By: thefrugalhousewife

thefrugalhousewife — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:20:00 +0000

Since I’m new to blogging, how do you tell when you’ve been hit by one of the spblogs?

Also, I wanted to let you know how much I enjoy reading your articles.

Thanks for all the great info!!!

By: Kristen

Kristen — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:15:50 +0000

Thanks for the post Gibble. My agency’s personal finance blog has been picked up by the spblogs (though I didn’t know what they were called). We’ve sent letters to the site that is picking them because unfortunately there is some content on those sites that we simply don’t want to be associated with. We’re not getting very far short of taking legal action.

It’s really frustrating. One of the sites even attached a state goverment employee’s name to one of my posts. The state, as you can imagine, is less than pleased and looking into it.

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Roundup and Link Love - Where Did Everbody Go Edition | The Wisdom Journal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:51:22 +0000

[...] Over at Gather Little By Little, he’s fighting splogs that want him to guest post, but they don’t ask. [...]

By: That One Caveman

That One Caveman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:36:26 +0000

Those scrapers are really getting annoying. Not only are they stealing your content, but they’re potentially lowering your ranking since Google will see multiple copies of the same content out there. It’s a bad deal.

By: Ron@TheWisdomJournal

Ron@TheWisdomJournal — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:52:48 +0000

I take it you like to be ASKED to guest post??? LOL!
Love your approach!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:34:35 +0000

I think this is great but I’m wondering, how do you figure out your content is being copied? do you just do a Google search with a sentence from your post in it to see what comes up?