WordPress.com Forums » Tag: sploggers - Recent Posts http://en.forums.wordpress.com/tags/sploggers WordPress.com Forums » Tag: sploggers - Recent Posts en Mon, 20 May 2013 05:05:57 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 bunnyali2011 on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1112063 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:39:40 +0000 bunnyali2011 1112063@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yesterday, I was on the DMCA form! Then I said to myself, let me inform him, perhaps he does not know about SEO and copyright infringement etc...

You know many new bloggers, particularly noobs, do not know about this. They just copy and share like those people on Tumblr who just reblog and reblog!

Like I said, I am not being affected it seems even the guy stole it, but I disagree to let it go if he does not remove. It is my content, I will not tolerate this if you did not ask permission.

It seems he has not yet read my message. He posted a post today, and I commented telling him to verify his Facebook message. The blog seems in Hungarian language (Not sure), but I have noticed some posts in English have been stolen! I clicked on one of the English posts, I searched the title on Google to know if this post has been copied from another blog, and to my utter amazement, it is from another WordPress.com blogger. I want to inform that guy as well later perhaps.

There is another blog on Blogger again, which has stolen two of my posts. However, I edited my two posts so he had the older versions. This one I do not really care. I saw also a guy made a YouTube video with some of my content. This one I will message him to take down the video or simply remove my content part on the video.

This is crazy but this should be solved! It is time for search engines to act severe in detecting duplicate posts, analyze which website posted the first, and condemn the websites which post the same contents without modifications after it!

By the way, this DMCA thing should be more easy! I don't know why they don't make it simple, just like a basic reporting system. Then the administrators verify that's all!

]]> auxclass on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1111838 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:35:00 +0000 auxclass 1111838@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ If you had answered all the questions at blogger you would have generated a DMCA notice that goest straight to blogger staff not the thief blogger - blogger will remove material - I had a whole Post copied and found it - went through the whole cycle - the blogger took my Post off but then took his own pictures (it was a how to do it) that were exactly like my pictures and put his copy of my Post (using all my old text) - turned him in again and it looks like he has kept my stuff off his blog - but he has not much real content - just copies what others have done -

Go back to blogger - do not give him the week - he knows he is slime - have no sympathy for the slime ball

]]> bunnyali2011 on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1111833 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 06:20:11 +0000 bunnyali2011 1111833@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I sent the guy a message on his Facebook and I commented on a post telling him to read the Facebook message. I gave him 1 week, else I am proceeding! It seems his entire blog has stolen posts...

]]> raincoaster on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1111179 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:47:54 +0000 raincoaster 1111179@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ That they are not as popular as you doesn't mean you're not being penalized. And search engines know that a classic spam technique is to post something on one site and then spam it to a whole bunch of other sites. Consequently, in recent times they have taken to penalizing both the copy sites and the original, which is all the more reason you should assert your copyright. But it is entirely up to you.

]]> bunnyali2011 on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1111174 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:44:14 +0000 bunnyali2011 1111174@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ No, search engines are not penalizing me it seems, but are penalizing them, I went on the blog which has stolen my post, and I see it always get 1 and 2 visitors.

Search engines are not lame lol, if like this, hundreds of thousands of websites would be penalized if others steal your posts. Search engines do know which website has posted the post first. It is them which are being penalized not me!

I will see what I will do. The essential thing is I posted here as an evidence!

]]> raincoaster on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1111043 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:23:23 +0000 raincoaster 1111043@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yes, search engines are penalizing you. If you're okay with that, then let it go.

You can indeed send Google a DMCA notice from the template I linked to in that post, and they will be forced to take it down. I've taken down I don't know how many dozen Blogger blogs. You can also click on their ads, on the "Ads by Google" line, and report them to Adsense, as stealing content is against the terms there. Google will pull their ads, killing off their reason for living.

]]> bunnyali2011 on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1111039 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 09:18:36 +0000 bunnyali2011 1111039@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I was thinking to do that. the blog which has stolen my post is on Blogger. So, I clicked to report but Blogger is asking too much information. Thus I abandoned.

A guy even stole my post and made a video on it with my contents on YouTube.

Well, the essential thing is that I posted this here, so that my blog is not penalized! I hope they are being screwed by search engines. As far as I know, and my knowledge on SEO, search engines do recognize duplicate posts and punish the websites which have written the post after the original one.

I can say I am not losing visitors too much on the stolen posts. So, I think search engines are playing badly to them which is good for me. Each time I went on the blog to see how many visitors it is getting, I always see 1 or 2 persons online.

However, even that, you feel a pain when these damn robbers steal your post mercilessly without permission and accreditation.

I prefer to let it go I think...

]]> raincoaster on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1111005 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:38:21 +0000 raincoaster 1111005@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ You don't need to take them to court. Your timing is amazing, as just a few hours ago I made a post which tells you how to get their blogs taken offline completely when they do this. It doesn't cost anything, either, and you don't need to go to court. Here:

http://manolofood.com/whine-journalism-and-how-to-bring-the-splashback/

]]> bunnyali2011 on "Posts stolen!" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/posts-stolen#post-1111001 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 07:28:51 +0000 bunnyali2011 1111001@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Happy New Year!

Seriously, I don't know why other blogs steal posts without permission. I faced this once on a WordPress.com blog, and the guy removed it for good!

Other websites stole my posts which are not from WordPress.com, and they removed it. Some removed everything while others kept a little part.

Now, I am facing again this, and they are not on WordPress.com. I know WordPress.com cannot do anything because these blogs and websites are not hosted here!

All I want to say, is to make WordPress staff aware in case they notice or think I copied posts from others, when in reality, they stole my posts.

Sadly, I cannot take them to the court, this will demand money, but I hope they get penalized on search engines! I hope search engine algorithms know which blog or website has posted a post first if they detect duplicated posts.

I don't know if you have passed in my situation, but if yes, I will be glad to hear it!

]]> tellyworth on "New sploggers all the time" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-sploggers-all-the-time#post-268596 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:20:53 +0000 tellyworth 268596@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Finding out where to report each site can be tricky. If you know how to use whois you can look up the domain name and IP to find the web hosting company that runs their server - but there are some gotchas. If you're not familiar with whois and DNS your best bet is to report them to http://stolen.wordpress.com/tips/

]]> xiaxien on "New sploggers all the time" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-sploggers-all-the-time#post-268529 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 23:25:22 +0000 xiaxien 268529@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Although copyright law automatically covers people who write or are the original producer of any work (photo, written etc), I now have it registered as such which gives me further legal recourse if necessary. Thank you for the link.

So, are the IP addresses to any of these sites (whether siiipinginfo or otherwise) where I need to report abuses by people who take my work?

]]> tellyworth on "New sploggers all the time" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-sploggers-all-the-time#post-268506 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:52:44 +0000 tellyworth 268506@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi,

This explains where to send a DMCA infringement notice for that site:

http://stolen.wordpress.com/2008/11/08/siiipinginfo/

There's a link to a sample notice at the bottom.

You can read more about these sites here. Please note that you don't need to do anything to copyright your work - anything you write or create yourself is automatically covered by copyright.

]]> xiaxien on "New sploggers all the time" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/new-sploggers-all-the-time#post-268476 Sat, 08 Nov 2008 20:04:10 +0000 xiaxien 268476@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Little excerpts of my blog are stolen from me and put on some site that looks like a WordPress site. From what I can tell from my reading so far, these so called "blogs" are not affiliated to do with WordPress at all. I've only been hit with the same splogger twice, before I copyrighted my work. They all have different 'user names' and they are doing this to a lot of people. I don't know where to send a "cease and desist" letter and I don't know to whom I report this. They do provide a link to my blog, and I do get a lot more traffic to my blog, but I also tend to get more sploggers from it as well.

Can someone help me? The links I still have happen to be from the same person:
http://www.log.siiiping.info/the-prime-of-my-life/

http://www.log.siiiping.info/the-life-of-a/

There were others too but I'm not sure who they are as I marked them as spam and don't know how to retrieve the information.

I hope someone can help me. I've read so much on sploggers here, but I'm just not seeing anything about what to do when you can't contact them for the notice to stop doing it.

Thank you. :-)

~Xia Xi'an
http://xiaxian.wordpress.com/

]]> 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom on "Technorati refusing to recognize valid WP URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/technorati-refusing-to-recognize-valid-wp-url#post-244395 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:59:33 +0000 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom 244395@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thank you so much for all these helpful comments. Yes, definitely, I claimed my blog on Technorati nearly two years ago. And I had a smaller concern months ago that I was able to resolve by contacting Technorati and using the "www" URL, but possibly its policy has changed.

I did not not know about http://stolen.wordpress.com/ and that is also helpful. I am hoping that I can stop the splogging or otherwise resolve this issue in a few days with one of these suggestions.

]]> raincoaster on "Technorati refusing to recognize valid WP URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/technorati-refusing-to-recognize-valid-wp-url#post-244381 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:04:58 +0000 raincoaster 244381@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ And have you claimed the blog at Technorati? As tsp says, you must use the exact URL http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/ otherwise it is NOT valid.

]]> tellyworth on "Technorati refusing to recognize valid WP URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/technorati-refusing-to-recognize-valid-wp-url#post-244380 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:03:12 +0000 tellyworth 244380@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ http://stolen.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/shoppinpl/

]]> thesacredpath on "Technorati refusing to recognize valid WP URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/technorati-refusing-to-recognize-valid-wp-url#post-244374 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:31:42 +0000 thesacredpath 244374@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Also set your syndication (RSS) to show at most 2 or 3 posts. That makes it more difficult for new scrapers.

]]> thesacredpath on "Technorati refusing to recognize valid WP URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/technorati-refusing-to-recognize-valid-wp-url#post-244373 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:30:18 +0000 thesacredpath 244373@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ One thing, is there is no www in your URL here, it's http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/ . I don't think Technorati will accept it with the www in it. www is actually a subdomain.

Second, they are probably getting your posts from your RSS feed. Go to settings > reading, and in the syndication section, change it to display "summary". I have quite a few taking my stuff via the RSS feed, and all they get is the summary, a sentence or two.

]]> raincoaster on "Technorati refusing to recognize valid WP URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/technorati-refusing-to-recognize-valid-wp-url#post-244371 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:24:03 +0000 raincoaster 244371@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Have you contacted http://stolen.wordpress.com ?

]]> 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom on "Technorati refusing to recognize valid WP URL" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/technorati-refusing-to-recognize-valid-wp-url#post-244365 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:11:19 +0000 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom 244365@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ A splogger has been scraping my blog and stealing all my posts every day since August 12 (and because I post at least once a day, this is a large number of posts). My posts now appear on Technorati under the name of the Polish blog "Shoppin' -- just shopping!" which uses the URL http://www.shopping.pl (of course, with no link to my blog, One-Minute Book Reviews, http://www.oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/) The splogger has been so successful at stealing my posts that s/he has now apparently hijacked my URL also. I've been trying for days to fill out the Technorati complaint form but keep getting the message, "Please enter a valid URL."

I am more than willing to go through proper channels by complaining to Technorati, but I can't do this when it has abruptly stopped recognizing a URL that it has recognized faithfully for nearly two years. And I have been trying since Aug. 12 to resolve this own my own, and I can't find anything that helps in the Forums.

Could someone in WP admin kindly tell Technorati that my URL is valid? (This situation could be very easily resolved if Technorati would just de-list the thief who is stealing all his or her content from me and others. There is no problem on Ice Rocket.) Thank you.

]]> schwartztronica on "Getting Pingbacks from Jailblogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-pingbacks-from-jailblogs#post-241693 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:51:23 +0000 schwartztronica 241693@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Honestly, at first I thought it was some kind of schizophrenic.

]]> raincoaster on "Getting Pingbacks from Jailblogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-pingbacks-from-jailblogs#post-240858 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:43:21 +0000 raincoaster 240858@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ See http://stolen.wordpress.com for advice on how to handle them. Also, you can search the forum for "Sploggers" or "Blog Scrapers" which is what those are.

]]> dtvaroha on "Getting Pingbacks from Jailblogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-pingbacks-from-jailblogs#post-240857 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:41:15 +0000 dtvaroha 240857@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/

I suspect they're one of those automated "copy someone else's blog posts and hope for ad-click revenue" scams.

Who woulda thunk it? I'm glad you posted this, because I couldn't figure out their site at all -- it's just as you said, they seem to be copying blog data, then reposting it, but I couldn't figure out why until I read your post.

]]> epicanis on "Getting Pingbacks from Jailblogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-pingbacks-from-jailblogs#post-238585 Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:27:35 +0000 epicanis 238585@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I'm getting about 2.5 metric $#!+loads of them over at bigroom.org. I suspect they're one of those automated "copy someone else's blog posts and hope for ad-click revenue" scams.

]]> dsgood on "Getting Pingbacks from Jailblogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-pingbacks-from-jailblogs#post-237992 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:16:53 +0000 dsgood 237992@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Got one, deleted it as spam.

]]> worldmilitaryhistory on "Getting Pingbacks from Jailblogs" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/getting-pingbacks-from-jailblogs#post-237991 Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:10:13 +0000 worldmilitaryhistory 237991@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello,

Is anybody getting pingbacks from a domain called jailblogs.com?

Thanks.

WorldMilitaryHistory

]]> pkayski on "Copyright theft question (Again) :(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyright-theft-question-again#post-198898 Sat, 03 May 2008 10:16:51 +0000 pkayski 198898@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ sanjidabd: Hehe hey man, sorry it took me so long, but I finally made a response to you on my blog. It will be interesting what you will place on your new page ;)

raincoaster: Wow, I actually didn't think of it that way. Oh and that is an excellent point! My blog is extremely protected! As it's no where on my computer but in some server all the way across the world!!

Thank you for reassuring me. Looking forward to keeping up my splog death crusade haha! (10 mofo's down and counting + the 1 splogger who removed the content)

Cheers! :)

]]> raincoaster on "Copyright theft question (Again) :(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyright-theft-question-again#post-198883 Sat, 03 May 2008 09:12:48 +0000 raincoaster 198883@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Most likely the splogger will see you as a no-steal area instead. I mean, what can they really do to you? You're hosted at WP.com and it would take Cheney-levels of access to interfere with your blog. You're pretty safe.

It IS true that every time you stop an injustice from occurring you put yourself on the radar of the crooks, but you are relatively invulnerable here.

]]> sanjidabd on "Copyright theft question (Again) :(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyright-theft-question-again#post-198873 Sat, 03 May 2008 09:03:33 +0000 sanjidabd 198873@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ :)

]]> pkayski on "Copyright theft question (Again) :(" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/copyright-theft-question-again#post-198870 Sat, 03 May 2008 08:51:52 +0000 pkayski 198870@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ HAHAHA HEY sanjidabd no no its not you..... sorry I was about to reply to your comment now but I had all this other internet stuff to do before hand (and i thought i should write up the forum question first so there is time for people to see it)

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